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• County Public Facilities Bonds County Public Facilities Bonds favorable. favorable. favorable.
• bond requirements, all<02:02:40.560> counties.
• guarantee for county bond requirements. guarantee for county bond requirements.
• county bond requirements. county bond requirements.
• This application of bond requirements.

Keywords: House streaming session for Friday, March 20, 2026, 957, house, all

Summary: The House met in Annapolis with 107 members present and proceeded through the journal and a series of Appropriations Committee reports. Several bills were advanced on favorable reports without amendment, including measures on constitutional officers’ salaries, correctional officer retirement systems for Dorchester and Allegany counties, Carroll and Calvert County public facilities bonds, higher education financial assistance for incarcerated individuals, and a bill on community college promise scholarship eligibility for Delmar High School graduates. Other bills received amendments before being ordered for third reading, including measures on community college trustee membership, Frederick Community College board meeting and training requirements, Howard County school funding disclosures, courts administrative judges’ stipends, correctional officers retirement membership clarifications, the Children’s Cabinet Fund, and a law enforcement pension bill limiting military service credit eligibility to helicopter pilots in state aviation units. The chamber also considered HB 1581 on horse racing facility ownership, development, licensing, and operations. Amendments expanded the bill to include additional economic development provisions for the Prince George’s County Blue Line corridor, Pimlico-related funding and community input requirements, a larger lottery-fund distribution for the racing community development financing fund, and changes to the bus rapid transit grant program. The bill’s favorable report as amended was adopted, and it was ordered for third reading. During debate on a separate amendment to HB 894, the Maryland Transit and Housing Opportunity Act, members argued over project labor agreements: opponents said PLA requirements raise costs and limit competition, while supporters said the provision was optional, supported stability and predictability, and was part of a broader compromise. The amendment was rejected after discussion, and the bill remained amended. The House also took up HB 1430 on charter school facilities funding, adopting amendments that reduced the per-pupil amount and narrowed eligibility for certain districts, then advancing the bill as amended. In addition, HB 1248 was amended to convert a part-time state employment pilot program into a work group, and HB 680 was amended to adjust future appropriations for local management boards. Across the session, most actions were routine committee report adoptions and amendment votes, with no recorded roll-call counts in the excerpt except the initial quorum call.

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• We know that the capacity for the capital investment committee, or the bonding bill, has been reduced
• Trunk highway projects could easily eat up the $700 million bonding maximum capacity authority.
• easily eat up the $700 million bonding easily eat up the $700 million bonding maximum<00:04:58.320
• off of our bonding ability. off of our bonding ability.
• Those are kind of standard bonds that are included in this bill.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• We do include some information on public finance authority bonding authorization.
• Those bonds were issued, and now we've been doing two sessions of bond payments on that at about $102.6
• The building authority has the option to do the lease payments and structure the bonding as lease payments
• There really hasn't been any new bonding authorized under that, but we include some of those limits so
• payments, bond splits, ACHs, wires.

Summary: The committee received a compliance and budget update on Industrial Commission agencies and programs, including the Industrial Commission administrative office, the Oil and Gas Research Program, the Clean Sustainable Energy Authority, the State Energy Research Center, the Research Technology Park grant program, and related funds. Staff reviewed spending and balances for items such as electric grid resiliency grants, lignite research, enhanced oil recovery, the salt cavern business case study, and the new NDSU research and technology park grant. Members also discussed timing, carryover balances, matching requirements, and how some programs are structured to reimburse projects over several years rather than spend funds immediately. Karen Tyler of the Industrial Commission described the agency’s administrative budget, the grant management system nearing completion, and the transition to standalone audits and staffing after separating from other agencies. She also outlined the status of active grant rounds across lignite, oil and gas, renewable energy, outdoor heritage, and clean sustainable energy programs. Members asked about the length of active grants, demand for clean energy funding, and the possibility of future grant rounds. Tyler and members also discussed the salt cavern study, the need to better define its commercial value, and the research technology park grant’s cash-match requirement. Ron Ness then testified on enhanced oil recovery and broader oil and gas market conditions. He said North Dakota production remained steady, but future growth depends on infrastructure, longer laterals, and better use of natural gas and carbon dioxide for EOR. He described the state’s EOR grant round, the use of federal DOE funding to replace part of a state-funded project, and the expectation of additional grant rounds. Members asked about CO2 supply, storage, and the economics of using legacy fields and pipelines to extend oil production and support agriculture and industrial uses. The committee also heard from Bank of North Dakota President Don Morgan, who reviewed the bank’s mission, governance, lending verticals, disaster programs, and new initiatives. He said the bank is seeing deposit growth flatten and is responding to fintech competition by focusing on liquidity, risk management, and a new payment infrastructure initiative called Rough Rider Coin, which he emphasized is not crypto and not a public coin, but a banking payment rail for North Dakota institutions. Members asked about student loan rates, disaster lending, and how the bank’s lines of credit and balance sheet capacity are affected by deposit trends. Morgan said the bank remains profitable and continues to support agriculture, commerce, and industry through participation loans, student lending, and state-directed programs.

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• <00:03:48.640> issue<00:03:48.920> for when they voted through a bond issue for when
• they voted through a bond issue for an<00:03:49.240> enhancement<00:03:49.840> on<00:03
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Bills: HB0034, HB0035, HB0036, HB0106

Keywords: HB0034, Wyoming retirement system, Wyoming Retirement Act, firefighter retirement, public employee retirement, retirement benefits, state pension, wildland firefighting, wildland firefighter, crash and rescue, Wyoming National Guard, Office of State Lands and Investments, Wyoming Retirement Board, correctional forestry crew, correctional crew supervisor, correctional forestry crew manager, general fund appropriation, state agency employees, service credit, benefit eligibility

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• /c><00:09:18.800> um<00:09:19.040> state<00:09:19.360> parks<00:09:19.760> bond
• projects and our um state parks bond projects and our um state parks bond projects. projects. projects
• , the ARPA projects and the<00:10:21.200> state<00:10:21.519> parks<00:10:21.839> bond
• <00:10:22.160> projects<00:10:22.640> this<00:10:22.959> year the state parks bond
• projects this year the state parks bond projects this year under<00:10:24.079> um<00:10:24.240

Keywords: 924, joint, all

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• for office, people would ask me, like the trades would ask me, 'Are you going to be in favor of a bonding
• The bonding is critical in my region.
• you going to be in favor of a bonding you going to be in favor of a bonding bill?"
• The<00:19:53.600> bonding<00:19:53.919> is<00:19:54.320> critical<00:19:54.720><
• in my in my The bonding is critical in my in my region

Keywords: 1183, house

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• on share relaying the creation the Cedar Springs Improvement District providing authority to issue bonds
• the creation of Alvarium Ranch, Municipal Managed District Number One, providing authority to issue bonds
• Waller County Improvement District number three providing issue authority bonds providing authority to
• Number three, managing, providing authority to issue bonds, providing authority to impose assessment
• HB 1718 by Plescia relating to the definition of closing for purposes of certain private activity bonds

Bills: SB5, SJR3, HB 11, HJR72, HB48, HB27, HB144, HB37, HB1481, HB581, HB1696, HB2216, HB 1035, HB1633, HB742, HB754, HB1689, HB1690, HB2669, HB391, HB517, HB1775, HB 1024, HB1607, HB252, HB1716, HB1562, HB4116, HB1866, HB1741, HB2103, HB2637, HB2884, HB3707, HB503, HB 1089, HB1757, HB2986, HB972, SB365, SB1786, SB5, SJR3, HB14, HB43, HB36, HB26, HB149, HB 121, HB206, HB136, HB3114, HB2733, HB1732, HB3700, HB467, HB 1130, HB1846, HB1442, HB 1147, HB2176, HB2701, HB805, HB2890, HB 1154, HB1644, HB2118, HB1718, HB2488, HB2596, HB2468, HB484, HB2578, HB3204, HB 1041, HB307, HB685, HB538, HB2525, HB3125, HB2027, HB2894, HB3077, HB 106, HB18, HB 11, HJR72, HB48, HB27, HB144, HB37, HB1481, HB581, HB1696, HB2216, HB 1035, HB1633, HB742, HB754, HB1689, HB1690, HB2669, HB391, HB517, HB1775, HB 1024, HB1607, HB252, HB1716, HB1562, HB4116, HB1866, HB1741, HB2103, HB2637, HB2884, HB3707, HB503, HB 1089, HB1757, HB2986, HB972

Keywords: dementia, research institute, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, funding, grants, state health initiatives, research funding, state budget, prevention, healthcare, medical research, Dementia Prevention and Research Institute, licensing, reciprocity, regulation, Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, interstate agreements, tax exemption, intellectual disability

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• customers outside the municipal boundaries only to the extent necessary to comply with the terms of bond
• With the terms of bond covenants that are in effect as of July 1, 2024, and then those surcharges must
• be phased out upon retirement of the bonds, expiration, or refinancing of the applicable debt obligations
• We're doing that just to make sure that the bond market stays stable.

Bills: S0936, S1724, S1014, S1498

Keywords: temporary door locking device, emergency safety, building code, training programs, fire exit security, utility services, municipal agreements, public meetings, rates and fees, public service commission, municipal utility, water service, wastewater service, property owners, annexation, civil action, community associations, condominium, homeowners associations, structural integrity

Summary: The Committee on Regulated Industries met with a quorum and took up four bills. First, it considered SB 1724 on municipal utility services. Senator Martin offered a late-filed delete-everything amendment that would require annual customer meetings for extraterritorial utility customers, cap use of gross utility revenues for general government at 10%, eliminate a 25% surcharge on customers outside city limits, reduce the rate differential cap from 50% to 25%, remove municipal natural gas utilities from the bill, and preserve certain existing bond-related surcharges until debt is retired or refinanced. The League of Cities raised implementation concerns about the July 1, 2026 effective date and the need for rate studies and budget adjustments. The amendment was adopted and the committee reported CS/SB 1724 favorably. The committee then heard SB 936 on temporary door locking devices from Senator McLean. The bill would define temporary door locking devices, allow them to be installed at any height, require the Florida Building Commission to add standards to the Florida Building Code, and require their use to be incorporated into safety plans, drills, and training. With no opposition or amendments, SB 936 was reported favorably. Next, the committee considered SB 1014 by Senator Mayfield, which would prohibit municipalities from refusing water or wastewater service solely because a property owner will not annex, and would require service expansion when a property is near a municipal main line, not served by another utility, and the utility has capacity. A committee amendment narrowed the bill to properties near a main line and reduced the distance threshold from 2,000 meters to one-half mile. The Florida League of Cities opposed the bill as amended, citing concerns about property size, annexation conflicts, enclave creation, and possible revenue impacts, but the bill was reported favorably. Finally, the committee heard SB 1498 on community associations from Chair Bradley. A strike-all amendment revised technical provisions on video conference recordings, turnover inspection reports, SIRS references, and electronic voting, and added two major policy changes: requiring associations to provide records to law enforcement and prosecutors and creating a second-degree misdemeanor for willful refusal, and prohibiting mandatory club or amenity fee schemes controlled by developers or third parties that generate profit beyond proportional expenses. Testimony in support described homeowner disputes involving concentrated board control, lack of transparency, and mandatory fees in communities such as Rosedale. The amendment was adopted and CS/SB 1498 was reported favorably. At the end of the meeting, Senator Bracey Davis asked to be recorded voting in the affirmative on tabs 1, 2, and 3, and the committee adjourned.

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• Are there discussions about bonding? Yeah, discussions on bonding are still ongoing.
• Again, that's a $700 million bonding bill, which is what has been proposed and talked about from the
• But if we do come together with a good, solid bonding bill, that leaves the leeway to potentially get

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• This occurs most frequently with bond titles and instances where someone is fraudulently attempting to
• Current law allows individuals to apply for a bonded title when no regular title is available.
• vehicle but lacks the official title document proving ownership, an applicant must obtain a surety bond
• This bond and title process can be reviewed by the Texas DMV.

Bills: SB35, SB1113, SB1365, SB1394, SB2243, SB2245, SB2589, SB2199, SB2200, SB 35

Keywords: transportation, TxDOT, Texas Department of Transportation, road projects, highways, infrastructure, bridge construction, interchanges, corridor improvements, road widening, railroad grade separation, sound barrier, unified transportation program, legislative notice, project prioritization, capital projects, state highway system, Farm-to-Market Roads, San Antonio, Harris County

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• It also created bonding authority to allow the community to bond against those revenues from that increment
• Representative Duncan, just a quick question, would this then require Um, the issuance of, uh, long-term, uh, bonds
• Representative Duncan, um, I believe in the bill, I, I don't believe that the increment is required to be bonded

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• Okay, how does that relate to the amount of money we appropriated through the bond issue?
• we did not fully execute what... wrong, but we did not fully execute what's available through the bond
• And talking about the bonds, that is certainly one of the things we told the bond community when we was

Keywords: 924, joint, all

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• And certainly, if there were future bonds to support our facilities needs, you know, I can say quite
• What are we doing with this, the use of these bond proceeds, to align to some of those good practices
• So when it comes to the Proposition 2 bond funds, under the current scoring system, after allocating
• can have that conversation with their locals and potentially, you know, have success with a local bond
• Any changes to scoring criteria should be prospective for a future bond as colleges have planned their

Summary: The committee heard an overview of the California Community Colleges budget proposal, including Proposition 98 funding, a 2.41% COLA for apportionments, enrollment growth funding, repayment of an apportionment deferral, and one-time investments for a student support block grant and deferred maintenance. The Department of Finance described the Governor’s package as providing significant new resources, while the LAO recommended prioritizing COLA and enrollment growth within available funds but raised concerns about some smaller proposals, including making the Healthy School Food Pathways Program ongoing and adding more funding for credit for prior learning before outcomes are known. The Chancellor’s Office supported the COLA, enrollment growth, and one-time investments, and said current projections suggest enrollment growth closer to 3%, with about $85 million to $90 million in ongoing costs if fully funded. Members focused heavily on enrollment growth, the 10% district cap, and whether the state should continue funding growth in the current year and budget year. The Chancellor’s Office said some districts, especially in the Inland Empire and Central Valley, are growing rapidly and that about seven districts are above the cap, with roughly 1,563 FTES and about $30 million in ongoing costs tied to that issue. Members also discussed hold-harmless districts and whether declining campuses should be required to produce turnaround or right-sizing plans. The Chancellor’s Office said districts are already having local conversations and that state funding provides time to adjust, but no formal plan requirement was proposed. The committee then took up common course numbering, where the Chancellor’s Office said all 115 community colleges have implemented the first phase and more than 550,000 students enrolled in the first six commonly numbered courses. The office argued that CCN improves clarity but does not yet guarantee that credits will transfer with full value across UC and CSU, because articulation is still handled campus by campus and can require more than 3,500 separate reviews. Members expressed concern that students can still be forced to retake courses such as calculus or ethnic studies even when they have the same common number, and urged the systems to develop a stronger statewide articulation mechanism tied to outcomes and transparency. The item was left open. Finally, the committee heard the Governor’s proposal to make Calbright College’s funding ongoing at $53.1 million. The LAO recommended instead transitioning Calbright to the student-centered funding formula, with one-time bridge funding in the meantime, arguing the Governor’s proposal lacks a clear enrollment-based rationale and performance expectations. Calbright’s leadership defended the college’s competency-based, flexible model for adult learners, citing more than 6,800 students served, over 2,200 certificates awarded, and wage gains for graduates; they said enrollment is expected to grow from about 7,000 students now to roughly 8,000 to 9,000 next year and around 10,000 over the next couple of years. Members pressed for clearer enrollment and funding data before deciding how Calbright should be funded going forward.

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• And certainly, if there were future bonds to support our facilities needs, you know, I can say quite
• So when it comes to the Proposition 2 bond funds, under the current scoring system, after allocating
• can have that conversation with their locals and potentially, you know, have success with a local bond
• Any changes to scoring criteria should be prospective for a future bond, as colleges have planned their
• Any changes to scoring criteria should be prospective for a future bond, as colleges have planned their

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• House Bill 341, House Draft 1, Senate Draft 1, relating to the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds
• our honorees from East Hawaii, uh, Denise Mazerik, and today we have her husband... purpose revenue bonds
• to assist hav purpose revenue bonds to assist hav Island<00:15:29.560> Community<00:15:30.040
• year's CIP budget includes about $1.9 billion in general obligation and general obligation revolving bonds
• year's CIP budget includes about $1.9 billion in general obligation and general obligation revolving bonds

Keywords: 910, house, all

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• And one of the things we were able to do at the end of session was leverage a bonding bill to reduce
• So, we were able to do that and provide a bonding bill of one point two billion dollars to invest in
• we were able to do that and<00:06:30.120> provide<00:06:30.680> a<00:06:30.840> bonding
• bill<00:06:31.480> of<00:06:31.640> one<00:06:31.800> point and provide a bonding
• bill of one point and provide a bonding bill of one point two<00:06:32.240> billion<00:06:32.520

Keywords: 918, senate, all

Summary: The interview reviewed the Minnesota Senate session with a focus on bipartisan accomplishments and the challenges of a divided chamber. The senator highlighted the creation of an independent Office of the Inspector General as a major fraud-fighting win, along with the “Take It Back Act,” which would require fraudsters to forfeit 100% of stolen proceeds. He said lawmakers also refined fraud-response measures so legitimate service providers, including those serving Minnesotans with disabilities, would not be unnecessarily cut off while investigations proceed. Another bipartisan measure discussed was a consumer protection bill for homeowners associations and common interest communities, intended to give property owners more protection against overzealous enforcement while preserving community rules. The senator said these bills reflected growing working relationships across the aisle and noted the importance of trust-building, especially with many retirements ahead in the Senate. The conversation also covered affordability and tax relief. The senator said the caucus helped secure a one-year reduction in vehicle tab fees, worth about $254 million to taxpayers, alongside a $1.2 billion bonding bill, and also backed other tax relief items such as pass-through entity tax changes, Section 179-related business tax relief, and property tax relief. He said these were negotiated at the end of session and did not reduce funding for roads and bridges. On contentious issues like gun violence prevention and immigration enforcement, he said some broad packages contained useful bipartisan elements but were derailed by controversial provisions and party-line politics. He described the session overall as “50/50,” saying Republicans wanted more emphasis on taxpayers, education, public safety, and economic growth, and argued that Minnesota’s education performance needs urgent improvement. He closed by stressing that the main lesson of the session was the value of relationships and service, and he encouraged incoming senators to focus on constituents rather than themselves.

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• done in Europe and Japan, allows us to finance future expansion through tools like revenue-backed bonding
• We are funding a portion of that through the Prop 1A bonds that were going towards the bookend project
• ways to do it: one, that we can find some internal instrument, that we can advance the cash through bonds
• , instrument that we can advance the cash through bonds and loans, and there are many other ways to do
• It was originally going to be like the bonds were going to be, you know, a third, the feds were going

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• House Bill 4033, relating to education bond elections.
• President, your Committee on Education, under consideration of House Bill 4033, relating to school bonding
• Relating to education bond elections for the third reading. House Bill 4033.
• House Bill 2320, relating to school bond elections.
• the Committee on Finance, having under consideration House Bill 2320, relating to school district bonds

Keywords: 1182, all

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• us about adding an amendment that disallows the statutory waiver for a school district that is 80% bonded
• One of those is gonna be shell don't have any outstanding bond debtness and they have to have financial
• They're going to a private bond. They're borrowing money from a private lender.
• And the reason that's beneficial for Oklahomans is that the money to pay these private bonds that charter
• You don't have a district that Would you vote like a bond issue? So, it's only five board members.

Bills: HB3674, HB4326, HB4331, HB3029, HB2963, HB3551, HB2973, HB3019, HB3461, HB2961, HB3261, HB3759, HB3429, HB3069, HB3372, HB3705

Keywords: school resource officer, sexual assault training, law enforcement training, CLEET, school safety, mental health, continuing education, HB4326, Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program, Oklahoma's Promise, scholarship, tuition assistance, higher education, State Regents for Higher Education, eligibility expansion, adopted students, foster care, DHS custody, child-placing agency, tribal custody

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• This bill would authorize the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to secure revenue bonds
• as a line of credit or other instrument of indebtedness for the bond volume recycling program.
• The proposed draft would change the language on page one from “may secure revenue bonds as a line of
• credit” to “may utilize revenue bonds when obtaining a line of credit,” and then it fills in the blank
• The amendment on page one that you identified—“may utilize revenue bonds when obtaining a line of credit

Keywords: 912, senate, all