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MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Education Finance Committee 3/13/25

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, for example, in grant programs, not necessarily just to nonprofits, but any grants that we administer
  • So, for example, in grant programs, not necessarily just to nonprofits, but any grants that we administer
  • uh this 5% and all these other grants uh this 5% and all these other grants where<00:25:02.520><
  • grants in shortage areas.
  • grants in shortage areas.
Bills: HF846, HF1538, HF1959
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:51:54.240> line This federally funded sewer grant line This federally funded sewer grant
  • Project was approved by KEDFA for a $750,000 KPDI EDF grant.
  • fund grant requiring action. fund grant requiring action.
  • KPDI EDF grant. KPDI EDF grant.
  • SR grant. SR grant.
Summary: The committee first handled routine business, including a quorum call, approval of minutes, and informational items on school district financing and KCTCS equipment purchases. It then considered two KCTCS capital projects after initially rolling them together and later unrolling them: a Fire Commission Fire Academy maintenance building project that had grown from an original $2 million authorization to $4.7 million because of design changes, soil issues, and higher mechanical costs, and a $1.5 million renovation of the Blake Lee building at Somerset Community College for a health science simulation lab. Members questioned the large cost increase on the fire academy project and the adequacy of front-end due diligence, while KCTCS said the project was bid and ready to proceed and that a 15% contingency had been included. Both projects were approved by roll call vote, with the Blake Lee project ultimately approved after the committee unrolled the items and took them separately. The committee next heard and approved a University of Kentucky public-private partnership for the Hamburg East Medical Office Building, a five-story, 220,000-square-foot facility with a not-to-exceed budget of $275 million. UK said the project is intended to expand outpatient access, consolidate some services, and support projected growth in patient volume; the building will house multiple specialties, urgent care, therapy, imaging, and a retail pharmacy. Members asked about possible community uses, consolidation of services, and whether the project would free up other space, and UK said it hopes to consolidate some services and free campus space. The project was approved by roll call vote. The committee then approved three UK lease renegotiations: a specialty pharmacy and infusion services lease at Wellington Way in Lexington, a Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences lease at Conte Terrace, and a College of Social Work lease at McGrath Park Way. Members asked about rising lease rates, occupancy, and whether space needs should be reduced; UK and the lessor’s representative said the pharmacy space remains busy, the ophthalmology lease was lower than before, and the social work lease had been negotiated down from a higher request. The committee also approved a Department of Military Affairs project amendment for a Mutual Field Maintenance Shop Restoration project, increasing federal funding by $1 million to $4.5 million because of higher construction costs, and approved a Kentucky State University Shanty Hall renovation project funded by bond and HBCU Title III funds. Finally, it approved a new lease for the Office of Mines and Minerals in Pike County, a new lease for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services in Pulaski County, and a lease renewal for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services in Kenton County after questions about rent increases and office utilization; the cabinet said the Kenton County space still has limited vacancy and remains in use by field staff. The meeting ended as the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority began presenting six sewer and water loans and six cleaner water program grant reallocations, with members agreeing to roll those items for later consideration.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Edfin Committee Meeting - 2025-04-01

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • House File 2786 would put tighter controls on grants and payments to nonprofit organizations.
  • Here are the components of the bill: First, MDE would be prohibited from issuing a grant or would be
  • required to terminate a grant if a nonprofit entity fails to make...
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Mar 11th, 2026

Ways and Means General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • . >> House Bill 34 by Representative Robbins, Department of Work First talent recruitment grant program
  • Representative Robbins replied that the program would be a grant program under the Department of Commerce
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/26

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • the department of egg, we take our grant the department of egg, we take our grant uh<00:38:32.079
  • <00:46:16.000> dollars authority on where the grants dollars authority on where the grants
  • <01:05:09.760> for also if somebody's awarded a grant for also if somebody's awarded a grant
  • And I think and and permission granted.
  • <01:35:00.400> program than the infrastructure grant program than the infrastructure grant
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Investment Committee 4/14/26

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • I just want to kind of mention what you were talking about and is why I think the way that this grant
  • The way that this grant was written is so amazing for greater Minnesota because we know, you know, it's
  • If they're triggering affordability grants, they would get affordability grants for those projects.
  • , they're triggering affordability grants, they're triggering affordability grants, they<00:59:21.760
  • grant for those projects. grant for those projects.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:40:27.440> Um cleaner water project grants. Um cleaner water project grants.
  • So do I I grants requiring no action.
  • So the grants that require no action.
  • Both the sewer grant and the water grant are reallocations from the county allocation pool.
  • grant and the water grant are the sewer grant and the water grant are reallocations<00:49:05.599>
Summary: The committee first handled routine business, including a roll call, approval of the prior meeting minutes, and a set of informational reports. Those reports covered University of Louisville research equipment purchases, a Kent County school district debt issue for elementary school renovations, the University of Kentucky’s planned use of construction management risk for a new engineering building, APA certification reports for underwriter and bond counsel selection committees, and a KCNA status report on infrastructure upgrades and purchases. The main presentation was an informational update from the Louisville Arena Authority. Board representatives said the arena was created to drive economic development and reported about $1.4 billion in economic impact from 2010 to 2013. They explained the authority’s financial structure, including arena operating revenues, TIF revenues, debt service, and a long-term capital plan for major repairs and replacements. Members questioned the low net revenue figures, the long timeline before TIF revenues are projected to exceed debt service, the size of capital expenditure spikes, and the University of Louisville revenue-sharing arrangement. The authority said the $2.42 million annual UL payment is fixed under a 2017 refinancing agreement, while other amounts vary with ticket sales and related revenues. They also said the COVID-era state and Metro funds, combined with authority cash, were used to prepay debt and reduce interest, lowering the debt service schedule. The committee then considered and approved a new capital project for a new HVAC system for the student wellness center pool area. The project, presented by university staff, was approved by the board and required committee action. The committee took a roll call vote, and the project passed unanimously. Finally, Janice Thomas of the state budget office presented two tourism, arts, and heritage cabinet grid resilience projects at Kincaid Lake State Resort Park and Kentucky Down Village State Resort Park. Each project costs $7,834,600 and is funded mostly by a federal grid resilience grant, with the remainder from state utility infrastructure replacement funds and energy policy funds. Staff explained that the projects will move park electrical service ownership and maintenance to regional utilities, allowing the state to exit the infrastructure-management role while continuing to pay utility bills through normal metering. The committee approved the action item by voice vote.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Agriculture, Acequias And Water Resources Feb 3rd, 2026 at 09:03 am

House Agriculture, Acequias And Water Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • We have a land grant institution, Madam Chair and Madam Vice Chair, with a Department of Etymology in
  • shelters are 501c3 non-profit organizations funded primarily by charitable donations and private grants
  • moves the Rescue Fund from the Livestock Board to the Department of Agriculture and strengthens the grant
  • and we have a really talented group of individuals at our department that are very adept at running grant
  • severance tax permanent fund, the tobacco settlement permanent fund, the water trust fund, the land grant
Bills: HM26, HB243, HB109
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Education Finance Committee 4/1/25

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • House File 2786 would put tighter controls on grants and payments to nonprofit organizations.
  • Here are the components of the bill: first, MDE would be prohibited from issuing a grant or would be
  • House File 2786 would put tighter controls on grants and payments to nonprofit organizations.
  • Here are the components of the bill: first, MDE would be prohibited from issuing a grant or would be
  • required to terminate a grant if a required to terminate a grant if a nonprofit<01:17:52.120> entity
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Finance Committee 3/5/26

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Make sure we don't take for granted that this is a public health approach.
  • Make sure we don't take for granted us.
  • Make sure we don't take for granted that<00:41:51.040> this<00:41:51.280> is<00:41:51.440
  • Last year, district budget constraints paired with a grant application that went unapproved resulted
  • application that went unapproved a grant application that went unapproved resulted<00:58:11.040>
Summary: The committee first adopted the March 3rd minutes by voice vote after Representative Lee moved them and there was no discussion. Members then reviewed hearing rules on decorum, safety, and participation before taking testimony from Dr. James Densley and Dr. Jillian Peterson of the Violence Prevention Project Research Center at Hamline University. The presenters summarized research on mass shootings and K-12 school shootings, drawing on a database of homicides in school settings from 2000 to 2025 and a smaller set of 15 K-12 mass shooting cases. They said school shooters are usually insiders, most often current or former students, and typically young males. They described common patterns including a noticeable crisis before attacks, perpetrators viewing the shooting as a final act, studying prior shooters online, and “leakage” in which most tell someone in advance. They also emphasized that many perpetrators use unsecured firearms from family members and argued that prevention should combine reporting systems, behavioral threat assessment, counseling, mentoring, secure storage, and other layered interventions rather than rely on a single solution. The presenters also discussed broader violence trends in the Twin Cities, saying much school violence is spillover from community violence and that pandemic-era disruptions and weakened trust in institutions contributed to serious violence. They cited a national survey finding that exposure to gun violence is associated with PTSD, anxiety, depression, and fear of public spaces, especially among young people. During member questions, Representative Wam asked for clarification on the data set and the rural/small-town share of the survey sample.