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• a hold harmless in an came in along with a hold harmless in an effort<00:41:04.480> to<00:41:
• > on<01:02:32.960> a the hold harmless provision is on a the hold harmless provision is
• <01:02:47.880> harmless we talk about that hold harmless we talk about that hold harmless
• It's not money that's coming out of that $184 million or hold harmless.
• top<01:05:54.799> of million or hold harmless it's on top of million or hold harmless it's

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The committee met in executive session on HB 563, which revises the adequacy education grant formula, including differentiated aid for free and reduced-price meals, English language learners, and special education, and also restores fiscal capacity disparity aid. Members explained that for FY 26 the formula largely stays the same with the usual 2% increases, while FY 27 would raise the base cost and several aid categories, including a substantial increase in special education differentiated aid. Supporters said the bill recognizes higher special education costs and separates fiscal capacity disparity from the extraordinary needs grant, which they argued better targets property-poor communities. A major point of discussion was the fiscal capacity disparity aid component. Some members asked for more detail on how the formula affected individual towns and how much money was being allocated. The sponsors said the spreadsheet showed the impacts and estimated the fiscal capacity disparity portion at about $13.3 million, benefiting roughly 40 communities, with Manchester the only municipality expected to receive less under the new approach. They also said the change partially rebalances money that had shifted heavily toward larger cities under the extraordinary needs grant and that the special education increase is new money, not taken from the hold harmless or extraordinary needs funds. Several members supported the amendment as a good-faith step and a bipartisan compromise, while others expressed frustration that they did not have enough time or information to review the spreadsheets in detail before voting. After extended debate, the committee recessed for lunch to allow the spreadsheet to be distributed and reviewed, with the understanding that the bill would continue later in the day and then move on to the other bills on the docket.

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• Speaker, gentlelady, would you be amicable to amending your legislation to hold counties harmless and
• This amendment is very simple, I believe, and it would essentially hold counties harmless by ensuring
• So if my facility closes with the passage of this legislation and there is no hold harmless provision
• Speaker and gentlemen, it doesn't appear that your amendment holds employees harmless.
• So pertaining to this specific piece of legislation, this is holding them harmless.

Bills: HM3, HM11, HM14, HM15, HM21, HM25, HB9, SB2, SB19

Keywords: nurses, health care workers, healthcare workers, frontline workers, hospital staff, clinicians, allied health professionals, support staff, public health, workforce shortage, nursing shortage, safe staffing, patient safety, rural health care, frontier communities, behavioral health, mental health, substance use disorder, substance abuse, health care memorial

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• Um, my only question is on hold harmless.
• Representative, by doing the full funding for the uh secondary factor, the amount of the amount of hold
• going to need the full 40 million potentially to hold this year's unit value flat, and we'll have a
• Money that would otherwise just sit in reserves to go for any hold harmless if that's, if that's needed
• I know we can't get a hold of him. His mother passed away, and, and so to verify that for you, so.

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• harmless the compensatory aid.
• The compensatory hold harmless, that's something that many schools were asking for.
• The compensator compensatory<00:31:42.720> hold<00:31:43.039> harmless.
• <00:31:43.600> That's compensatory hold harmless. That's compensatory hold harmless.
• Representative Bennett that we can hold Representative Bennett that we can hold the<00:42:17.240

Keywords: 1183, house

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• <00:02:51.840> local funding disparities in holding local funding disparities in holding local
• And so this would hold harmless. And so this would hold harmless.
• And so this would hold local districts.
• And so this would hold harmless.<00:12:56.560> And<00:12:56.800> then<00:12:57.120>
• And then from my perspective, harmless.

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The subcommittee met without a quorum and first heard from Kentucky Department of Education officials on career and technical education funding. KDE explained that House Bill 499 created a CTE funding formula using 60% weighted full-time equivalent enrollment and 40% incentives, but House Bill 6’s budget language excluded area technology centers (ATCs) from that supplemental funding. KDE requested approval of an additional budget request of $14,789,352 in each fiscal year 2027 and 2028 to include ATCs in the formula and hold local districts harmless. Officials said ATCs serve students from 117 of Kentucky’s 171 districts and argued the change would reduce funding disparities and better reflect the return on investment from CTE programs, citing growth in dual credit and work-based learning participation. Members asked whether the issue would need to be revisited each budget cycle. KDE responded that the problem could be fixed by removing the notwithstanding language from the budget bill, which they said would allow ATCs to be included under the existing statute. Representative Klein supported the request, saying the current clause could lead to stagnation and that the committee should help the program continue to grow. No vote was taken on the CTE item during the portion of the meeting provided. The committee then heard a presentation from PreK for All on expanding preschool access in Kentucky. Advocates said the state’s preschool program has been funded since 1990 and currently serves about 14,200 children at roughly $84 million per year, but that many working families still fall into a coverage gap. They proposed expanding eligibility to 250% of the federal poverty line, which they said would add about 9,600 children at a cost of $40 million in year two, after a planning year. The proposal also included regulatory flexibility for classrooms and partnerships with private child care providers and nonprofits, with speakers emphasizing child care deserts in some counties and citing research that early learning improves kindergarten readiness and later outcomes. No action or vote was taken on the preschool proposal in the transcript provided.

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• in this proposal care is held harmless in this proposal uh<00:14:00.600> the<00:14:00.759>
• What happens if the federal government decides that it's not being held harmless?
• Um, if the feds were to no longer have the hold harmless adjustment in the formula, the state would incur
• an additional $140 million a year. found to found to be<01:11:27.960> harmless<01:11:28.920><
• right like like what are the be harmless right like like what are the actual<01:11:31.199> what

Keywords: 1183, house

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• Senator Nelson, I'll hold till after the testimony, okay? Welcome to the committee.
• is a lot more complicated too, but the ultimate point of your question: school districts are held harmless
• is a lot more complicated too, but the ultimate point of your question: school districts are held harmless
• is a lot more complicated too, but the ultimate point of your question: school districts are held harmless
• is a lot more complicated too, but the ultimate point of your question: school districts are held harmless

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• harmless.
• harmless the compensatory aid.
• The compensatory aid, as I said, will keep some jobs and hold schools from planning.
• Uncertainty still persists, and we're not going to be able to hold that out forever.
• The compensatory hold harmless—that's something that many schools were asking for, so that is a good

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• So that the hold harmless would only apply to the registration tax and not to EV surcharge charges.
• So that the hold harmless would only apply to the registration tax and not to EV surcharge charges.
• So that the hold harmless would only apply to the registration tax and not to EV surcharge charges.
• So that the hold harmless would only apply to the registration tax and not to EV surcharge charges.
• So that the hold harmless would only apply to the registration tax and not to EV surcharge charges.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• A funding investment is needed for this bill, and it's written containing a hold harmless provision.
• A funding investment is needed for this bill, and it's written containing a hold harmless provision.
• A funding investment is needed for this bill, and it's written containing a hold harmless provision.
• A funding investment is needed for this bill, and it's written containing a hold harmless provision.
• for their years of service in harmless for their years of service in the<01:30:33.280> legislature

Bills: HF3422, HF3461, HF2904

Keywords: state grants, grant oversight, grants management, executive agencies, Minnesota Department of Administration, commissioner of administration, fraud prevention, waste prevention, grant monitoring, financial reconciliation, grant compliance, state government, public funds, grant recipients, competitive grants, grant administration, administrative oversight, monitoring visits, grant policy, legislative leave

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• So we wanted to do that hold harmless in order to ensure that no city was harmed as a result of this.
• we wanted to accomplish this and um so we wanted to do<00:05:26.360> that<00:05:26.560> hold
• <00:05:27.000> harmless<00:05:28.000> in<00:05:28.160> order<00:05:28.479>
• > to<00:05:29.240> ensure do that hold harmless in order to ensure do that hold harmless in
• cities are held harmless cities are held harmless okay<00:10:46.959> um<00:10:47.959>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Previously, we had a hold harmless provision for small private schools so that they didn't get significantly
• Previously, we had a hold harmless provision for small public schools in the bill.
• There's not another school choice plan in the state or in the country that offers a hold harmless provision
• for that student, whether in... we had a hold harmless provision in the bill where for the first couple
• And we like that it's a clean bill, not coupled with bargaining chips like hold harmless provisions or

Bills: SB 2

Keywords: 1185, senate, all

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• No, I didn't, John, and you to hold off for a little bit because we're going to go through introductions
• Enrollment growth and save harmless, which is very complicated, and I won't get into today.
• We'll have more time to talk about that as we move on, including enrollment growth and save harmless
• So save harmless and growth units are more... are somewhat intended for that.
• I'm here to invite you to a breakfast that the New Mexico School Board Association Holds every year at

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• <00:14:16.560> a entity that the broker may hold a entity that the broker may hold a broker's
• Mure harmless for lost revenues resulting from the reinsurance program.
• Mure harmless for lost revenues resulting from the reinsurance program.
• Mure harmless for lost revenues resulting from the reinsurance program.
• motans in mind and will also uh hold motans in mind and will also uh hold down<00:28:59.200>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• So there's additional proposals to try to hold community colleges harmless for this TK rebench split?
• Proposals to try to hold community colleges harmless for this TK rebench split? In effect, yes.
• harmless situation and will not see an increase in funding for this year.
• As the SCFF hold harmless provision is set to expire, we are in need of the Legislature's support of
• An extension of the hold harmless for SMC is roughly the equivalent of 0.07% of the proposed enrollment

Summary: The committee heard the May Revision presentation for the Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance, with public comment focused heavily on K-12 priorities such as universal school meals, kitchen infrastructure, food service and custodial support, youth leadership grants, Special Olympics funding, English learner support, universal pre-K, literacy investments, and concerns about community college funding shifts. Speakers also urged support for expanded learning, teacher recruitment and training, and maintaining or increasing funding for community colleges and student support programs. Finance and the LAO then reviewed the Proposition 98 outlook. Finance said the May Revision lowers the 2025-26 Prop. 98 guarantee to $114.6 billion, about $4.3 billion below January, due mainly to lower revenue estimates, with smaller effects from attendance and property tax changes. The administration also described rebenching for universal transitional kindergarten and a one-time rebench tied to Los Angeles fire-related property tax losses, along with changes to the Public School System Stabilization Account, deferrals, and updated COLA assumptions. The LAO said the budget relies too much on deferrals and one-time funds, creates a structural shortfall, and should instead align ongoing spending with the guarantee and preserve a reserve buffer. Members questioned the TK rebench and the shift of funding from community colleges to K-12, asking why it was being applied retroactively and how colleges would be held harmless. Finance said the changes align funding with where TK costs are being incurred and that reappropriation funding and other adjustments would offset impacts on community colleges. The LAO argued the historical split formula is outdated and should be abandoned in favor of budgeting around current priorities rather than fixed percentages. Members also raised concerns about draining the rainy day reserve and using deferrals, while the LAO said preserving reserves would better protect against future volatility. The committee then moved to specific K-12 and education proposals. Finance outlined May Revision changes including state operations adjustments for the Department of Education, technical trailer bill changes, a $100 million student teacher stipend program administered by Kern County, and updates to the charter school facility grant program. The LAO recommended rejecting the proposed increases for expanded learning, literacy coaches, and the student teacher stipend as currently structured, while supporting the minimum grant increase for expanded learning. Members expressed support for teacher recruitment efforts but questioned whether one-time funding can sustain ongoing programs and whether the student teacher stipend should be targeted to shortage areas or low-income communities.

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• The May Revision proposes to end that hold-harmless date four months sooner, at the end of February 2026
• We are opposed to the implicit bias training cuts as well as the rate reform hold harmless cuts.
• Regarding item 46, we're deeply concerned about the proposal to shorten the rate reform hold harmless
• Regarding item 46, we're deeply concerned about the proposal to shorten the rate reform hold harmless
• Regarding item 46, we're deeply concerned about the proposal to shorten the rate reform hold harmless

Summary: The hearing began with opening remarks on the Governor’s May Revision for child care and human services, with committee members and advocates stressing that the budget should not be balanced on the backs of low-income families, children, and providers. Legislative members and public witnesses strongly opposed the proposed suspension of the child care COLA, reductions to the Emergency Child Care Bridge Program, and the lack of codified rate reform tied to the alternative methodology. Several speakers also urged more support for providers affected by the Eaton fire and other disasters, and called for child care to be funded at the true cost of care and for additional slots to be restored. Administration, LAO, and Department of Education staff described the child care proposal as maintaining existing funding levels while adding administrative resources to prepare for federally required prospective payment changes and single-rate reform. The administration said the May Revision would suspend the 2025–26 COLA and reduce Bridge Program funding to align with utilization, while the LAO raised questions about the size and purpose of the proposed rate-reform and prospective-payment funding and recommended rejecting a Department of Technology exemption. CDE supported continued early education investments but said it would need additional resources if prospective pay were extended to state preschool, and it objected to a proposed reallocation of preschool funds for inclusive education grants. The committee then moved to the IHSS portion of the May Revision. DSS outlined five major proposals: capping provider work hours at 50 per week, eliminating IHSS for undocumented adults age 19 and older, shifting certain Community First Choice reassessment penalties to counties, reinstating the Medi-Cal asset test as a conforming IHSS reduction, and automating the termination of IHSS when Medi-Cal eligibility ends. DSS also discussed funding to implement a federal HCBS access rule and a separate reassessment of IHSS administrative methodology that found counties would need additional administrative funding. Finance said the proposals were intended to slow program growth and improve sustainability, while the LAO said it was still analyzing the package and raised concerns about implementation, county workload, and the potential loss of services. Committee members and public commenters criticized the IHSS cuts, especially the overtime cap and the elimination of services for undocumented adults and people affected by the asset test. Advocates argued that IHSS workers and recipients depend on these services, that county administration is already underfunded, and that the proposals could destabilize vulnerable consumers. The chair closed by saying the committee would continue to fight for child care and would not pause on child care, and the meeting recessed before moving on to the remaining May Revision items.

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• All moments that once felt harmless were now charged with a lot of suspicion and unease.
• <00:04:54.520> felt unknown all moments that once felt unknown all moments that once felt harmless
• were now charged with a lot of harmless were now charged with a lot of Suspicion<00:04:57.000> and
• I also, with Molly, am asking for stronger legislation that holds these companies responsible so this
• <00:10:13.560> these stronger legislation that hold these stronger legislation that hold these

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Chairman, Representative Block, just for context for the committee, this is the hold harmless associated
• The LESC recommendation does not have a recommendation around the hold harmless.
• At this point in... ...the fiscal year, I would actually question whether revisiting the hold harmless
• They were also supposed to receive some hold harmless.
• They were also supposed to receive some hold harmless.

Summary: The committee first heard a detailed staff presentation on the LESC FY27 public school support recommendation. Staff reviewed the budget structure and explained that, despite a downward revision in state revenue estimates, the recommendation still relied on recurring and non-recurring revenue to support educator compensation, insurance, transportation, literacy, math, special education, and other school programs. Major recurring items included a 3% compensation increase, funding for an 80-20 health insurance cost share, insurance premium growth, and transportation adequacy funding. Staff also flagged a possible supplemental need of up to $35 million for virtual education tied to rapid enrollment growth in Chama and Santa Rosa, and members raised concerns about the quality, accountability, and funding model for virtual programs. Members asked questions about transportation for rural districts, the Martinez-Yazzie lawsuit fees, the treatment of enrollment declines in the school funding formula, and whether the word “average” in salary language should remain in the budget. Staff explained that the SEG should remain whole, that the insurance and transportation recommendations applied to all public school employees but not contractors, and that the budget included multiple math-related investments spread across several lines rather than one single appropriation. There was also discussion of out-of-school learning grants, school meals, literacy center operations, special education training, and the Public Education Reform Fund, including the use of multi-year, evaluation-based appropriations for high-impact tutoring and community schools. After discussion, the committee adopted the LESC budget recommendation. The committee then moved to endorsed legislation proposals. It endorsed a bill allowing the secretary to suspend an individual school board member, with notice and appeal procedures clarified, and a bill creating an 80-20 health insurance cost-share requirement for public school employees, along with a study of the sustainability of public school insurance programs. It also endorsed a bill on attendance provisions for students with severe medical conditions, which would keep those students from being classified as excessively absent. Finally, the committee discussed a teacher residency bill that would raise stipend levels, allow residents to complete service anywhere in New Mexico, and remove the requirement that sponsoring schools must hire them, though the bill did not include an appropriation. Members also raised questions about bilingual, Hispanic, and Black education funding, cultural and linguistic supports in teacher preparation, and where various programs should be placed in the budget or PERF framework.

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• evolution of first responder, mental wellness with stigma decreasing and cultural shifts beginning to take hold
• It gives the cbc's the ability to retain savings through efficiencies and also has some hold harmless
• There is around 15.3 million dollars and hold harmless funding that is recommended for the first year
• There is the hold harmless provision in the risk corridor.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• Chair, one of my questions is gonna go to line item 113 HB 63 charter school hold harmless supplemental
• As far as the charter school Funding that I believe you're referring to, the Hold Harmless.
• Whether or not the Hold Harmless was funded at the level that LESC recommended.
• And I want to be clear that when we're talking about the funding cuts and the need for Hold Harmless.
• Sunny, I want to let you know how much I appreciate having the Hold Harmless money in there because it

Keywords: 996, all