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TX
Transcript Highlights:
- recommendation and is intended to address the growing shortage of court reporters, which is driven by factors
- Contributing factors to this shortage include uncompetitive pay in certain areas, limited awareness of
- And so there's a combination of factors that are leading us to this point of looking for solutions.
Committee:
Senate Jurisprudence
Keywords:
digital court reporting, court reporting, court reporter, electronic recording, audio recording, video recording, transcription, verbatim record, judicial administration, Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial System, courts, depositions, grand jury, referee, court commissioner, court technology, courtroom technology, access to justice, accuracy
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Insurance Committee Apr 30th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- The study will also look at underwriting factors such as resident populations and sources of income to
- we're going to need greater transparency and systematic data collection to understand the drivers and factors
- And what other factors are driving the changes in the availability and price of coverage?
Summary:
The Assembly Insurance Committee met to consider several bills focused on California’s insurance market, wildfire resilience, and consumer protections. AB 888, the California Safe Homes Act, was heard first. Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and Alabama Insurance Commissioner Mark Fowler testified in support, describing state grant programs that help homeowners harden roofs and create defensible space, with the goal of reducing losses and improving insurance affordability and availability. Supporters from the insurance industry, local government, and the Rebuild Paradise Foundation also backed the bill, and committee members emphasized the need for more incentives for mitigation. The bill passed the committee on a do pass motion and was sent to Appropriations.
AB 290, by Assemblymember Bauer-Kahan, would require the FAIR Plan to offer automatic payments and address non-renewal grace-period issues. The author described her own experience being forced onto the FAIR Plan and facing a large premium increase, while Consumer Federation of California called the bill common-sense consumer protection. The FAIR Plan opposed unless amended, saying it was already handling major wildfire claims and other operational demands and requested more time and changes to the non-renewal grace-period language. Members across the committee supported the bill as a needed modernization measure, and it passed as amended to Appropriations.
AB 1339, by Assemblymember Gonzalez, would direct the Department of Insurance to study insurance availability and pricing for affordable housing providers and report policy recommendations. Supporters from affordable housing organizations said rising premiums were forcing providers to cut services, defer maintenance, and use reserves, threatening housing stability for low-income residents. The bill passed as amended to Appropriations. AB 646, by Assemblymember Wallace, also passed to Appropriations; it concerns disclosure related to motor vehicle protection products and catalytic converter theft deterrence, with support from auto dealers and industry groups. The committee also approved AB 1531 on consent. Members later added on to the record in support of the bills, and the hearing concluded without recorded opposition votes on the measures that advanced.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Comptroller will oversee the program and determine which counties receive the funding based on certain factors
- No sir, economics were not factored in, just simply the size of the wildfire.
- capita, if you will, or per square mile... than we do in the rest of the state, but no economics were factored
Committee:
Senate Finance
Keywords:
SB 868, rural volunteer fire department assistance program, volunteer fire department assistance fund, Texas Government Code, wildfire, wildland fire, high-risk wildfire area, fire suppression, rural fire departments, volunteer firefighters, emergency response, public safety, grant allocation, appropriations, disaster preparedness, tax penalties, interest calculation, overpayment, tax law, refund process
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- your bid package, do you take into account what this legislation addresses that do you consider and factor
- Do you include any type of where you will award either points or additional, you know, factors, favorable
- factors for that contractor if they were to use some of those.
Committee:
House Transportation
Keywords:
cultural attractions, highway signs, Texas Department of Transportation, travel guidance, Museum of the Big Bend, traffic control, tourism, sunscreening devices, motor vehicle, judicial specialty license plate, vehicle safety, Texas Transportation Code, disability, parking, Governor's Committee, mobility impairment, disabled veterans, legislative recommendations, license plates, vehicle registration
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Bleeding disorders including hemophilia, von Willebrand disease, and other clotting factor deficiencies
- These disorders impair the body's ability to form proper blood clots due to Defects in clotting factors
- can also develop later in life due to autoimmune response that targets the blood's natural clotting factors
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
The Cost of Special Education – Senator Jason Rarick Feb 17th, 2025
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Yeah, you mentioned that transportation costs are something that is a factor, and we know that those
- Yeah, you mentioned that transportation costs are something that is a factor, and we know that those
- Yeah, you mentioned that transportation costs are something that is a factor, and we know that those
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Investing in Minnesota Housing - Senator Eric Lucero Feb 3rd, 2025
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- 06.520><c> huge</c> level but nevertheless they are a huge level but nevertheless they are a huge factor
- 05:08.600><c> money</c><00:05:09.520><c> and</c><00:05:09.720><c> so</c><00:05:10.280><c> that</c> factor
- in the cost of money and so that factor in the cost of money and so that would<00:05:10.600><c> be</
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, that eight-factor analysis determines whether or not something is deserving of being scheduled.
- Uh, that eight-factor analysis determines whether or not something is deserving of being scheduled.
- DEA history that they have ever retracted because it did not hit the eight-factor analysis.
- That's ultimately the number one factor.
- </c><03:53:57.359><c> If</c> ultimately the number one factor. If ultimately the number one factor.
Committee:
Senate Judiciary
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- And I'm not saying school is child care, but that does play a factor into it.
- And I just want to be clear, I'm not saying school is child care, but that does play a factor into it
- And I'm happy to take questions. ...is child care, but that does play a factor into it.
- What's the experience as a factor.
- We know that the strongest protective factor against suicide is connectedness.
Committee:
Senate Education
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Is that factored in here? Is there a measure of that?
- in here uh is there a measure factored in here uh is there a measure of<00:45:58.880><c> that</c><00
- Chair, Representative, that is not factored in here.
- Investments there are a variety of other Investments there are a variety of other factors<01:02:04.680
- that they look at including factors that they look at including security<01:02:07.599><c> so</c><01:
Committee:
House Capital Investment
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/25
Higher Education Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Generally speaking, we are at times not fully funding a settlement because there’s other factors that
- Generally speaking, we are at times not fully funding a settlement because there’s other factors that
- Generally speaking, we are at times not fully funding a settlement because there’s other factors that
- Facilities are factored into the model using square footage, and colleges with multiple campuses are
- in but that makes up that's factored in but that makes up about<01:24:30.679><c> 7%</c><01:24:31.280
Committee:
House Higher Education Finance and Policy
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- It's the combined impact of the O&M riders in law plus all these other factors, using a base-plus-minus
- using a base plus minus other factors using a base plus minus process<00:03:13.159><c> just</c><00:03
- So our faculty are looking at how does this factor into their portfolio of funding, their research.
- So our faculty are looking at how does this factor into their portfolio of funding, their research.
- </c><00:19:02.039><c> in</c> University of Minnesota had a factor in University of Minnesota had a factor
Committee:
Senate Higher Education
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Postsecondary Education (2-4-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> considered a lot of different factors considered a lot of different factors because<00:26:25.800
- So the weight factor for the research sector is 1.34, and the weight factor for the comprehensive institutions
- </c><00:51:22.600><c> So</c> how you calculate the weight factor.
- So how you calculate the weight factor.
- <c> the</c><00:51:23.760><c> research</c> the weight factor for the research the weight factor for the
Summary:
The House Postsecondary Education Committee held its first-ever meeting and first meeting of the session, with Chairman Tipton outlining committee procedures, attendance rules, and the process for submitting committee substitutes. After a roll call confirmed full attendance, the committee heard a presentation from Senator David Givens on the history and purpose of Kentucky’s performance-based funding model for postsecondary education. Givens said the model was created to replace an older “shares” approach that distributed funds based largely on prior-year allocations, and argued the new system better aligns funding with student success and the state’s long-term educational attainment goals.
Council for Postsecondary Education President Aaron Thompson and CPE staff then explained the model in more detail. They said the system was designed to address long-standing funding disparities among institutions, reward outcomes such as degrees, credit-hour progression, and completion in high-demand fields, and support the state’s “60 by 30” goal of having 60% of Kentuckians hold a postsecondary credential by 2030. Thompson said Kentucky is now at 56.2% attainment, above the national average, and highlighted gains in graduation and retention rates, lower student borrowing, and improved completion outcomes. He also emphasized that the model is part of a broader strategy that includes affordability, adult learners, low-income students, and wrap-around support services.
CPE staff described the work group process that developed and periodically revises the model, noting that the General Assembly created the framework in House Bill 303 and later enacted Senate Bill 153 and Senate Bill 191 to codify changes. They explained that in 2016 the legislature carved out about 5% of institutional budgets, roughly $43 million, to be redistributed through the new model, and that the model has been reviewed every three years with changes made each time. Recent revisions included increasing the student-success weight, adding a premium for low-income students, creating a premium for adult learners, and redefining underrepresented students as first-generation college students. No votes were taken at this meeting, and the committee adjourned after the informational presentation and discussion.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- And I think those are things too that could be figured and factored maybe into the text of your proposal
- And I think those are things too that could be figured and factored maybe into the text of your proposal
- And I think those are things too that could be figured and factored maybe into the text of your proposal
- that could also play in to um the factor that could also play in to um the uh<01:15:16.679><c> the</
- Maybe into the uh figured and factored Maybe into the uh text<01:15:57.560><c> uh</c><01:15:57.760><
Committee:
Senate Taxes
ND
Transcript Highlights:
- of these increases, it's not just because of participation rates increasing; it's for a variety of factors
- Am I correct in my understanding that that does not factor in the fact that the $1,600 tax credit is
- paid by the state and the homestead... ...factor in the fact that the $1,600 tax credit is paid by the
- So we do factor in a number there, and that has played into some of that 2.58% increase.
- anticipate vendor increases, software increases, and some of the unknown items, and have tried to factor
Committee:
Joint Budget Section
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight Jun 21st, 2026 at 02:00 pm
Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight
Transcript Highlights:
- I didn't even factor in Foxborough Stadium, which is clearly significant, but to the congressman's point
- I didn't even factor in Foxborough Stadium, which is clearly significant, but to the congressman's point
- So we have the cost factor, and then we have the factor that it might take another 18 months to come
- loss of medical care and the additional strain on emergency response systems, there are many other factors
Summary:
The committee first heard testimony on H. 3599, a bill concerning access to historic Indian lands and easements for landlocked tribal parcels in Massachusetts. Witnesses, including members of the Mashpee Wampanoag and Herring Pond communities, said the bill would restore access to family lands that have long been treated as landlocked and had been denied easements by necessity in prior court rulings. They described heavy tax burdens, prior litigation, and support from the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, with conditional support from the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe pending language changes. Committee members asked about the tax assessments and the status of tribal support, and the chair said the committee would follow up on possible amendments.
The committee then took up S. 2922, which would authorize an underground easement at Magazine Beach in Cambridge for the Greater Cambridge Energy Project. Eversource representatives said the easement is needed for a transmission line connecting the Brighton and Kendall Square substations, supporting grid reliability and the Commonwealth’s clean energy transition. They said DCR would receive fair market value and replacement land in Wendell to satisfy Article 97 requirements. No objections were raised, and the panel’s testimony concluded without a vote recorded in the transcript.
Most of the hearing focused on H. 5047, which would authorize the Commonwealth to take the Norwood Hospital site by eminent domain so the hospital can be restored. Sponsors, local officials, hospital task force members, EMS and fire representatives, a chamber of commerce leader, and a former hospital administrator all argued that the 2020 flood and Steward’s bankruptcy left the region without adequate care, causing longer ambulance transports, emergency room boarding, staffing strain, and economic losses. They said the site remains a partially completed shell, that the state should be able to acquire it and bring in a nonprofit operator, and that the taking would not require state funding because an operator would pay the acquisition costs. Committee members from both chambers expressed support and asked about costs, timing, infrastructure, and whether a nonprofit operator is being pursued. The chair took the bill under advisement after extensive testimony; no vote was taken in the transcript.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Committee on Juvenile and Emerging Adult Justice Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Senate Committee on Juvenile and Emerging Adult Justice
Transcript Highlights:
- What can we do in the legal system to address some of those factors?
- Some of the factors include that they do not understand the consequences, and they are much more vulnerable
- So it's a combination of factors connected to both exclusion and system involvement, which leads to less
- So it's a combination of factors connected to both exclusion and system involvement, which leads to less
- And so, under that system, it's easier to factor in time served.
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Juvenile and Emerging Adult Justice held an informational hearing focused on diversion programs and services for high-risk youth, with no bills before the committee and no votes taken. The chair and members emphasized that the session was intended to hear from invited testimony and discuss how to strengthen diversion, reduce court involvement, and improve outcomes for youth. The committee heard first from the Office of the Child Advocate and diversion providers, who described the Massachusetts Youth Diversion Program, its statewide expansion to 10 of 11 court counties, and its reported success rate of about 80% completion without reoffending. Testimony highlighted that diversion keeps youth out of court, connects them more quickly to community-based services, and can address needs such as mental health, education, and substance use. Witnesses also pointed to racial and ethnic disparities in arrests versus summonses, regional variation in diversion access, and the need for clearer statutory authority, more funding, and broader use of pre-arrest diversion.
Committee members asked about the difference between arrest and summons, who can initiate diversion, why arrest rates have increased relative to summonses, and how diversion might prevent harmful downstream consequences such as detention or immigration enforcement involvement. Witnesses said police, clerk magistrates, district attorneys, and judges can refer youth to diversion, and argued that local policy, training, and legislative changes could expand use. They also discussed the impact of detention on youth, including stigma, lost school time, and the lack of credit for time served in the juvenile system. Testimony from Citizens for Juvenile Justice focused on prevention, school discipline, and the school-to-prison pipeline, arguing for more restorative practices, better data, and legislation to limit suspensions and expulsions, especially for younger students and nonviolent conduct. They also raised concerns about DCF-involved and foster youth, who are disproportionately represented in the juvenile system.
The final panel, the Children's League of Massachusetts and transition-age youth providers, shifted to child welfare and young adult supports. They supported reducing court involvement in child requiring assistance cases, expanding family resource centers, and strengthening services for transition-age youth leaving DCF or DYS custody. Providers described housing instability, homelessness, and the need for education, employment, behavioral health, and supportive housing services for young adults ages 18 to 23. Across the hearing, witnesses consistently argued that early intervention, community-based supports, and diversion are more effective than court processing or detention for most youth, and that the legislature can help through funding, statutory clarity, expanded eligibility, and stronger data collection.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Health Care Financing Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Joint Committee on Health Care Financing
Transcript Highlights:
- CEO pay is just one factor of dozens that impact the economic inequalities in our health care system.
- This is a factor that would be really helpful to us.
- So those are all factors that we would look at.
- So that is all factors that we look at. payment limit language.
- So that is all factors that we would look at, because I completely agree, Pepsi, sickle cell, those are
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Health Care Financing held a public hearing on a broad set of health care bills focused on cost, market oversight, pharmaceutical access, transparency, hospital closures, and pharmacy access. Chairs John Lawn and Cindy Friedman opened by emphasizing recent health care reforms and the need for further action on the drug supply chain, PBMs, private equity, and affordability. The committee heard testimony on several measures, including a Betsy Lehman Center bill to make technical changes and create a permanent trust account for federal and private funding, and bills on hospital profits and fairness, hospital closures and health planning, pharmacy deserts, and health care market oversight and pharmaceutical access. No votes were taken during the hearing.
On the hospital profits bill, physicians and labor advocates strongly supported capping hospital CEO compensation at 50 times the lowest-paid worker, requiring greater financial transparency, and directing penalties from high-margin public hospitals into a Medicaid reimbursement fund. Testifiers argued that executive pay is excessive while frontline staff and safety-net services are under strain. Committee members raised concerns about unintended consequences, including whether hospitals might shift workers to contract status or lose executive talent, and whether the bill would actually direct money to the safety net. Supporters responded that the measure is one piece of a larger effort and that the bill’s Medicaid reimbursement provisions would help underserved hospitals.
Testimony on market oversight and pharmaceutical access centered on rising health care and drug costs, PBM practices, and the proposal to give the Health Policy Commission authority to set upper payment limits for certain drugs. Consumer advocates, disability advocates, an independent pharmacist, the Attorney General’s office, and others supported stronger oversight, citing premium increases, affordability problems, and the impact of high drug prices on patients and community pharmacies. Pharma and some industry witnesses opposed parts of the bill, warning that upper payment limits could disrupt access, create legal issues, and fail to address the broader supply chain. The committee also heard support for stronger hospital closure notice and public hearing requirements, and for a pharmacy deserts bill aimed at identifying and addressing closures like the one in Roxbury that affected thousands of patients.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee Apr 27th, 2026
Revenue and Taxation
Transcript Highlights:
- But another major factor here is that California moved to single sales factor, which is to say that income
- One major factor here is that California moved to single sales factor, which is to say that income is
- Goldberg has explained, we apportioned based on sales factors.
Committee:
House Revenue and Taxation
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- the autopsy and toxicology screen was performed, my mitragynine overdose was determined to be the factor
- And the reason it's not is it doesn't meet the eight factors that are required under the Controlled Substances
- Litchfield, they have to meet those eight factors, and that has been evaluated multiple times by the
- And the reason it's not is it doesn't meet the eight factors that are required under the Controlled Substances
- Litchfield, they have to meet those eight factors, and that has been evaluated multiple times by the
Committee:
Senate Agricultural Affairs