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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Environmental Regulation May 1st, 2025

Environmental Regulation

Transcript Highlights:
  • So with this program, I'm going to put the onus back on the manufacturer.
  • We already have a program similar to this that's working well, called the Supplemental Environmental
  • Project Program, or SEP program.
  • program, but it's limited in its use.
  • hazardous waste corrective action programs.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Jurisprudence Mar 11th, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • So in my current role, I supervise actually a jail diversion grant, where my diversion coordinator and
  • Our safe environment programs include regular background checks and education. programs to train clergy
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on County & Regional Government Mar 10th, 2025

S/C on County & Regional Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • To receive funding from the Rural Sheriff's Office Salary Assistance Grant Program and Rural Prosecutors
  • ' Office Salary Assistance Program, or Reassistance Grant Program.
  • The legislature enacted Senate Bill 22 in 2023. which established three grant programs to support offices
  • It's another grant program and I appreciate the opportunity to lay this out early. Mr. Chairman.
  • Yeah, so SB 22 provided a grant program to make sure that deputies were getting paid a minimum salary
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 2/17/25

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • The majority of it is spent on program grants.
  • The majority of it is spent on program grants, so we have two programs.
  • The majority of it is spent on program grants, so we have two programs.
  • As I mentioned, half of it went towards the grant program.
  • grant program would make dollars in our grant program would make a<00:21:16.320> substantial<
Bills: HF711, HF653
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • program up, we uh came up with a program program up, we uh came up with a program called<00:07:44.840
  • Road Program.
  • The percentage is drawn from, as directed by House Bill 546, the economic development grant program percentages
  • The percentage is drawn from, as directed by House Bill 546, the economic development grant program percentages
  • It It's a great program.<00:48:32.680> It<00:48:32.880> It program. It It program.
Summary: The committee met for the first interim meeting of the 2025 Budget Review Committee on Transportation and heard from Bobby Jo Lewis, commissioner of Rural and Municipal Aid at the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. She reviewed the new County City Bridge Improvement Program, created in the 2024 regular session, reporting that phases one and two are complete, 45 bridges have been funded so far, and about $18.45 million has been authorized. She said roughly $6.549 million remains for phase three in the current fiscal year, with about $26.445 million in bridge applications still pending. For fiscal year 2026, the program will again have $25 million and will use four application phases. She also described a training resource, Local Bridges 101, and said a new executive advisor, Greg Meredith, has been brought in to help with the bridge program. Members asked how rollover applications would be handled, whether they would be re-evaluated with new applications, how the program would account for bridge longevity and load posting, and how isolated communities would be prioritized. Lewis said applicants not funded in FY25 would be contacted and could choose to roll their applications into FY26, and all applications would be evaluated together at the end of each phase. She said preservation projects are assessed for how much they extend a bridge’s life, and isolated community access bridges or closed bridges with no detour access receive priority. She also said the department aims for equitable distribution across regions and plans to produce a map showing where funds have been awarded. Lewis then turned to the County Priority Projects Program and the Local Assistance Road Program established in House Bill 546 and related resolutions. She said the application cycle opened June 1 and closes October 1, with 106 memoranda of agreement being prepared for awards in House Joint Resolution 46. She described updated application and reporting forms, a scoring matrix, and a County City Pavement Evaluation Manual used to rate projects based on preservation of assets, average daily traffic, recent improvements, safety, cost, and district priority. She said projects must be rehabilitation projects designed to restore the original condition of the road, cannot exceed $500,000, and must use local match percentages tied to the economic development grant program formula. She also reported on funding status for prior road projects, including completed, partially completed, pending, and underrun amounts that may be reauthorized. Committee members asked about photo documentation, online access to project materials, how to measure whether projects truly restore roads to original condition, and what happens when project costs exceed estimates. Lewis said the department is still working on how best to store and share the large volume of photos, and that projects are certified through district offices and local sign-off after completion. She said overages are the responsibility of the applicant because the state does not have additional money beyond the awarded amount. No formal votes were taken during the discussion.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Feb 12th, 2025

Finance and Taxation Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • There is a grant portion at the end of the bill. You'll see that makes part of it, Senator Gan.
  • Don't cave in to that giveaway program down giving away money—we got needs up here, okay?
Bills: SB1, SB83, SB159, SB160, SB1
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • In summary, SB 90 appropriates $15 million to the Nevada Department of Education to create a grant program
  • part of the program.
  • Senate Bill 434 creates a program to award grants to address shortages of providers of health care.
  • What it does is create a program to award grants to address shortages of providers of health care, or
  • In future biennia, the grant program would be funded via a transfer of half a percent of the total anticipated
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26

Higher Education Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • The grant formula relies this program.
  • Chair. grant program. We have got a big grant program.
  • with the state grant program.
  • with the state grant program.
  • Grant program whole.
Bills: HF4266
US
Transcript Highlights:
  • This program was.
  • Our business assistance program is primarily funded by... ...annual grants from the SBA's microloan program
  • in the 7A program.
  • granting six new non-banks to participate in the program.
  • Community Advantage Program? The Advantage Program gave us $250,000.
Summary: The committee meeting focused on discussions regarding the SBA's 7A loan program and its implementation challenges. Members raised significant concerns about recent changes to the underwriting standards, which have been criticized for leading to an increase in loan defaults. Ranking members expressed a desire for a return to stronger guidelines to protect taxpayers and ensure the program remains a viable source for small businesses struggling to secure funding. Testimonies from community lenders highlighted their efforts to support underserved communities and stressed the importance of the Community Advantage Program.
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations - Education and Environment Division Apr 16th, 2025 at 09:00 am

Appropriations - Education and Environment Division

Transcript Highlights:
  • And then our WIP Regional Workforce Impact Program. We had 10.
  • Was there a change made on the internship program?
  • Committee, this is an amendment having to do with the replacement program, the drone replacement program
  • Most of these programs have been ongoing programs.
  • And these programs have been successful.
Bills: SB2018
Summary: The E&E Committee met to finalize action on Senate Bill 2018, the Commerce Department budget. Members reviewed several funding lines and made verbal adjustments, including reducing tourism marketing awareness to $5 million, keeping Operation Intern at $2 million, restoring the Destination Development Fund to $20 million, setting Autonomous Agriculture Grants/Grand Farm at $10 million, and reducing the WIP Regional Workforce Impact Program to $5 million. Representative Martinson proposed additional earmarks for the Fargo Theatre, Maddock trolley cars, a theater in Marmarth, and Driscoll’s community hall, and also moved to keep the Destination Development Fund at $25 million; the committee discussed these items, but the transcript does not show separate recorded votes on those proposals. The committee adopted two amendments. One dealt with the drone replacement program and related data-collection direction, with language agreed to by UAS representatives, IT, and the governor’s office. The second, offered by Representative Swantec, created a trigger for funding children’s science centers in Fargo and Grand Forks if the SIF fund exceeds a specified threshold during the 2025-27 biennium; the amendment was clarified to use the term “Children’s Science Education Center” and passed 7-0. The committee then approved a do-pass motion on the Commerce budget as amended and with the verbal changes discussed, passing the bill 7-0. During debate, Representative Louser raised concerns that the budget’s spending could affect property tax relief, while the chair responded that there would still be sufficient money for tax relief and that the programs funded were ongoing and successful. The chair closed by thanking members and staff, noting conference committee assignments and a committee dinner, and then adjourned.
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations - Education and Environment Division Apr 8th, 2025 at 02:00 pm

Appropriations - Education and Environment Division

Transcript Highlights:
  • Again, has to do with more the federal grants and those kind of programs.
  • It's funding for entrepreneurship grants and voucher programs.
  • Our WIP, otherwise known as Regional Workforce Impact Program grants.
  • Our WIP, otherwise known as Regional Workforce Impact Program grants.
  • And the other is adds funding for the community property improvements grant program.
Bills: SB2018
Summary: The committee took up Senate Bill 2018, the Department of Commerce budget, and walked through the long sheet and a series of proposed changes. Members discussed restoring a vacant workforce FTE that Commerce said it could fill soon, monitoring federal funding delays but reporting no known cuts, and adjusting several one-time items including Operation Intern, the North Dakota Development Fund, the Global Talent Office, and tourism-related funding. The chair also proposed separating tourism marketing and Good Life funding again, rather than combining them, and members raised concerns about ensuring tourism dollars are used only for tourism purposes. A number of program amounts were reviewed or adjusted in discussion, including UAS grants, Vantus/Beyond Visual Line of Sight funding, Grand Sky, Grand Farm autonomous agriculture grants, base enhancement grants, Native American small business grants, regional workforce impact grants, technical skills training grants, and tribal college workforce grants. Commerce officials explained that some grant language would be changed to require competitive RFP processes, and they clarified that the housing opportunity and community property improvement items were handled in other bills or programs. The committee also discussed apprenticeship efforts across state agencies and Commerce’s role in workforce development. The committee reviewed carryover and exemption language for prior appropriations, including federal weatherization and energy funds, and Commerce said three one-time FTE tied to those federal programs should become ongoing because the federal dollars continue over several years. A motion to add $1.5 million for the North Dakota Safety Council failed for lack of a second. The committee then planned to return the next day to continue work on Commerce and take up the CTE budget, including a pending amendment related to CTE’s possible move from the 15th floor of the Capitol.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 2/23/26

Transportation Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • need to do better with our programming. need to do better with our programming.
  • Either revoke or this program.
  • program.
  • Thank you, camera pilot program.
  • I support this program."
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/09/2026 - Senate Military Affairs and Border Security

Military Affairs and Border Security

Transcript Highlights:
  • the court found that the state has no obligation or no right to regulate a federally administered program
  • that end, the House FMAE Committee last week just passed a bill out of committee to create a pilot program
  • ... ...to the Arizona Department of Housing to establish the Military Transitional Housing Grant Program
  • to provide grants to veteran-owned and veteran-operated nonprofit organizations that are founded or
  • We take for granted that we use financial institutions to help our families.
Summary: The committee first took up Senate Bill 1803, which would regulate non-accredited assistance with veterans’ benefits claims by requiring disclosures, fee limits, written agreements, and Attorney General enforcement. The sponsor and supporters argued the bill creates needed guardrails against predatory actors while preserving veterans’ choice to use free or paid help. Opponents, including the VFW and American Legion, said the bill still conflicts with federal accreditation rules and should require accreditation rather than create a separate state framework; a VA-accredited attorney also raised preemption and unauthorized-practice concerns. After extensive testimony, the committee adopted an amendment and advanced SB 1803 on a 5-2 vote. The committee then heard Senate Bill 1232, a strike-everything amendment dealing with outdoor advertising signs in a military compatibility overlay area near Luke Air Force Base. The bill was presented as a narrow fix for a property owner whose billboard permit had been denied because of zoning technicalities, with testimony that ADOT, the county, and the base had been involved and did not oppose the clarification. Some members expressed concern about whether the measure was too tailored and about ADOT’s absence, but the bill was amended and passed 4-3, with several members reserving the right to change their votes on the floor. Finally, the committee heard Senate Bill 1511, which would prohibit operating a commercial motor vehicle in Arizona without proof of lawful presence and authorize impoundment of the vehicle and cargo if the operator cannot provide it. The sponsor framed the bill as a public-safety and liability measure tied to commercial trucking, citing concerns about accidents, contraband, and shell companies. The transcript ends during the presentation of SB 1511, before any vote or final action on that bill.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/02/2026 - House Health & Human Services

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • So this sets up the grant program. There is no funding to this.
  • This is simply setting up the grant program.
  • So this sets up the grant program. There is no funding to this.
  • This is simply setting up the grant program. And with that, I have talked with Representative.
  • Raymond, so if I'm coming into the program with my child, even with the creation of this new grant program
Summary: The Committee on Health and Human Services opened with remarks about shortening meeting times and then heard a JLBC presentation on the effects of H.R. 1 on SNAP. JLBC staff explained that H.R. 1 expands SNAP work requirements, raises the state share of SNAP administrative costs from 50% to 75% beginning in FY 2027, and could require Arizona to pay a share of benefits if its SNAP error rate exceeds 6%. JLBC estimated the administrative cost increase at about $33 million in FY 2027 and $44 million in FY 2028, and said a 2024 error rate of 8.8% could trigger about $139 million in state benefit costs under the new federal formula. The committee then considered HB 2797, which requires DES to regularly review data from other agencies to verify SNAP eligibility, post fraud and noncompliance data, and address out-of-state EBT purchases. Supporters said it would improve program integrity and help Arizona avoid federal cost-sharing penalties; the bill passed 7-5. The committee next heard HB 2180, which appropriates $2.5 million in FY 2027 to the University of Arizona for AZ REACH, a statewide hospital transfer coordination service. Supporters from rural hospitals and the health system described it as a useful, voluntary service that speeds transfers and reduces burden on physicians, while one health system representative asked for better operational coordination. The bill passed 11-1. HB 2184, as amended, would extend fetal death certificate filing requirements to fetal deaths at or before 20 weeks if requested by the mother and require notice of the option to transfer remains to a funeral home before an abortion. Supporters, including a mortuary owner and parents who had experienced miscarriages, said it would give grieving families dignity and closure; opponents raised concerns about reproductive rights and language in the bill. The committee adopted the Bliss amendment and passed the bill 7-4-1. HB 2188, as amended, created a Language Acquisition Grant Program for services to deaf or hard-of-hearing infants and toddlers. Supporters said it would streamline funding and preserve family choice among spoken language, ASL, or both, while an opponent argued the bill should more explicitly ensure equal access to ASL and Deaf Culture services; the bill passed 12-0. The committee also considered three more H.R. 1-related SNAP bills. HB 2442 would require able-bodied adults under 60 receiving SNAP to participate in an employment and training program unless exempt; supporters said it would connect recipients to work and training, and it passed 7-5. HB 2448 would bar DES from seeking work-requirement waivers or discretionary exemptions unless authorized by law; supporters said it would prevent broad waivers and improve employment outcomes, and it also passed 7-5. Finally, HB 2206 would require DES to reduce the SNAP payment error rate to 3% by 2030, submit annual progress reports, and face corrective action if targets are missed. Supporters said it would save taxpayer money and improve accountability, while opponents argued the target was too aggressive without more staff or funding and could strain DES; the bill was still under discussion at the end of the transcript.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/12/25

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, this particular bill, House File 1112, would establish a regional food bank grant program with DCYF
  • So, this particular bill, House File 1112, would establish a regional food bank grant program with DCYF
  • So, this particular bill, House File 1112, would establish a regional food bank grant program with DCYF
  • Um, again, this is about a regional food bank grant program.
  • Uh these food banks bank grant program.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Higher Education Apr 1st, 2025

Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • This legislation will also ensure students are eligible for the Texas Educational Opportunity Grant Program
  • Programs are 10, 15, 20 years, correct? Right.
  • Is that my understanding of how the program would work?
  • Yes, and I think we modeled that off of other similar programs.
  • In foster care programs, so that's just an aside issue.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Higher Education Apr 1st, 2025

Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • So that's why we need to have a self-funded program.
  • in a program, and you're in a program, and you're in a program, and you're in a program, and you're
  • in a We hire a company like Aetna to administer the program.
  • It's a good idea to create these kind of programs that we are more proactive.
  • and certain private grants.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Mar 3rd, 2026

Ways and Means Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • It says disperse 50% of the total grant award upon entering into the grant contract and then 50% grant
  • They might be government grant programs, but they're hidden three or four pages deep on a government
  • <00:31:17.200> programs, They might be government grant programs, They might be government
  • grant programs, but<00:31:17.840> they're<00:31:18.080> hidden<00:31:18.799> three<
  • grant award for that household. grant award for that household.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Environment Committee Meeting - 2026-03-26

Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • program, they can and should. program, they can and should.
  • pay for their recycling programs? pay for their recycling programs?
  • county-based recycling programs. county-based recycling programs.
  • We have to have a new program.
  • with more dollars for SCORE grants. with more dollars for SCORE grants.