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Transcript Highlights:
- Members, before we get started on today's agenda, I wanted to let you know that with the power-sharing
- Even, you know, shutdown of the portals, you know, called reverberations and inability for states to
- Even, you know, shutdown of the portals, you know, called reverberations and inability for states to
- And digging deeper too, even looking at the different categories that you have, are you able to break
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Committee:
House Capital Investment
AR
Arkansas 2026 Regular Session
LEGISLATIVE JOINT AUDITING-EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS Feb 12th, 2026
LEGISLATIVE JOINT AUDITING-EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Transcript Highlights:
- But there has been an audit before. Yes, just private. Thank you for the clarification.
- But there has been an audit before. Yes. Just private. Thank you for clarification.
- Thank you. Thank you. Representative Long, recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
- There will be, you know, basically brought before the executive committee a request for us to do the
- It comes before us. We hear the reports, but we can do a little bit of a dig or dive.
Summary:
The meeting opened with prayer and approval of the January 8 minutes, then moved to review of education audit reports. The first report concerned Northwest Arkansas Community College, which had three findings, including repeat internal control deficiencies that caused financial statement misstatements and a tuition revenue loss tied to a new student information system. College officials said the issues were largely misclassification and process problems, not missing money, and described corrective steps such as monthly closing checklists, approval controls for journal entries, cross-training, and efforts to address staffing turnover and fill finance vacancies. Members asked about the tuition issue, whether students were notified or billed, and whether the software problem affected other institutions; audit staff said they were not aware of the same scenario elsewhere. The committee then filed the report as reviewed.
The next report was Cedarville School District, which had one finding involving $794 in improper credit card charges by a resigned elementary teacher. The district was reimbursed, a police report was filed, and the matter was referred to the Professional Licensure Standards Board; members asked whether any further action or license-related consequences were known, but staff said they were not aware of additional action. The report was filed as reviewed.
The final finding was for West Memphis School District, where auditors reported repeat capital asset issues, including failure to capitalize about $851,000 in construction costs for a baseball-softball complex and problems with inventory and asset inspection. The superintendent said the district had recently begun using Legislative Audit after prior private audits, and described new controls such as multi-level purchase approvals, separation of duties, tagging of equipment, and a cleanup of old inventory records. Members also discussed the relationship between private audits and Legislative Audit reviews, with staff explaining that private audit reports for public school districts still come before the committee and that the executive committee determines when Legislative Audit performs an audit. The committee filed the West Memphis report as reviewed and noted that 28 school districts had no findings before adjourning.
AR
Arkansas 2026 Regular Session
LEGISLATIVE JOINT AUDITING-EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS Feb 12th, 2026
LEGISLATIVE JOINT AUDITING-EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Transcript Highlights:
- Okay, thank you. I'm unaware. Okay, thank you.
- But there has been an audit before. Yes, just private. Thank you for clarification.
- But there has been an audit before. Yes. Just private. Thank you for clarification.
- Thank you. Thank you. Representative Long, recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
- It comes before us. We hear the reports, but we can do a little bit of a dig or dive.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session - part 2 May 19th, 2025
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Just wanted to say thank you for the effort to get this bill before us.
- So, Representative Nadeau, thank you. Thank you for the work you did.
- You know, every tweak that you do, you think you're doing just like this little thing, you come up with
- Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move a recess to the call of the Speaker.
- Thank you. Thank you.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Status of Persons with Disabilities Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Transcript Highlights:
- Maybe if you want to just, before you begin your presentation, explain a little bit about yourself and
- Thank you. Yes. Okay. Finally, just to call out, this is the last thing and then all ends.
- It was really nice meeting all of you. Thank you. Take care. Thank you. All right.
- And you haven't added to welcome you. Yes, we're very glad to welcome you, Rach.
- And, you know, but she sort of similarly wanted to get her feet wet a little bit before deciding where
Summary:
The Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Persons with Disabilities subcommittee on workforce supports met with Chair Andrew Lerault presiding. Members completed roll call, approved the August 2025 minutes, and then heard a presentation from Amy Doyle, director of the Behavioral Health Workforce Center at the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission. Doyle described the center’s launch in September 2024 and its legislative mandate to study behavioral health payment rates, workforce needs, and licensure/certification barriers, with an emphasis on recruitment, retention, capacity building, diversity/equity, and sustainability. She also shared data on unmet behavioral health needs, ED boarding, workforce shortages, aging and turnover in nursing and direct care, and the need to improve data collection on non-licensed workers and populations such as people with developmental disabilities and autism.
Committee members asked questions about what provider types were included in the workforce data and whether DDS-related residential and direct support roles were captured. Doyle said the center is still working to define and measure the full behavioral health workforce, including non-licensed roles, and welcomed follow-up on missing data sources. Members suggested additional sources such as CHIA and the Association of Developmental Disability Providers’ workforce survey. Doyle noted that the center is working with CHIA and that new licensure renewal surveys for behavioral health and allied mental health professionals will begin in 2025, which should improve future workforce data.
The discussion also touched on the Health Policy Commission’s broader workforce findings, including nurse attrition, burnout, low wages, and the importance of career ladders and advanced training. Doyle said the center’s first policy recommendations will come from its rate study, expected in the next one to two months, and will likely focus on capacity building and sustainability. After the presentation, members thanked Doyle and discussed subcommittee leadership. Chair Lerault announced he was stepping down, and Chris White volunteered to serve as co-chair; the committee agreed to move forward with that arrangement and to revisit FY26 goals once new leadership is in place. The meeting then adjourned by motion and second.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Housing Task Force 2025 (6-30-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- So, uh, Madam Clerk, if you would please call the roll. Roll call continued.
- Yeah. as long as nobody calls you. Yeah. Yeah.
- Well, and you called yourself a nerd, so I will share with you that in our housing supply gap analysis
- Well, and you called state is facing.
- And that makes you be able to calls for.
Summary:
The Housing Task Force 2.0 reconvened with several new members and heard a presentation from Kentucky Housing Corporation Executive Director Winston Miller and Deputy Executive Director Wendy Smith. They framed the task force’s work as a practical effort to address Kentucky’s housing shortage, update members on the current housing landscape, summarize existing state and federal resources, and suggest areas for the task force to focus on over the coming year.
KHC said its 2024 housing supply gap analysis found Kentucky is short about 206,000 housing units, split roughly evenly between rental and homeownership, and projected the gap could grow to 287,000 units by 2029 if current trends continue. They emphasized that every county in Kentucky needs more housing, that the 2008 housing crisis and loss of construction capacity remain major causes of the shortage, and that current pressures include high interest rates, rising insurance and tax costs, construction cost inflation, and housing prices and rents growing faster than incomes. KHC also said homelessness has risen in Kentucky, with point-in-time counts showing double-digit increases in recent years.
The presenters reviewed existing resources, including federal programs, the Kentucky Affordable Housing Trust Fund, the rural housing trust fund, KHC mortgage and down payment assistance programs, and the state mortgage interest deduction. They said these resources are important but insufficient to close the gap, and noted that a proposed federal FY2026 budget would cut HUD programs by 44%, potentially removing about $286 million from Kentucky housing resources, though no action has been taken yet. They urged the task force to consider stronger, more flexible tools such as a revolving loan fund, a state affordable housing tax credit, and economic development and employer-assisted housing incentives, and pointed to Indiana’s housing infrastructure and regional development funds as examples. No votes or formal actions were taken in the portion provided.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- approach and different ways to amend the bill that is before you. >> Okay.
- The current bill that you have before you is that it inadvertently shifts tax burden onto renters because
- >> Okay, I will ask the clerk to call the roll. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
- Seeing none, I'll ask the clerk to call the roll. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
- You're just ready to call the roll. Okay. Thank you, Opal.
Committee:
House Ways and Means
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Legislative Committee on Water Supply During Drought Jun 11th, 2025
Joint Legislative Committee on Water Supply During Drought
Transcript Highlights:
- Senator Chapman, I think the question you... can I just dig into your question a little bit?
- Well, it's, um, Chairman, before you go, I just want to point a clarification here before we go into
- And say before you go any farther, would you do any further, would you Next slide, please.
- And before you go any farther, would you prefer that we ask questions during your talk, or do you want
- In the year before that, the smolts outmigrating at Prosser were doing a, you know, considering a pretty
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Water Supply During Drought opened its 2025 meeting by electing new leadership. After brief discussion of the committee’s membership and the usual practice of alternating leadership between chambers and parties, members unanimously elected Senator Ron Mazzal as chair and Representative Christine Reeves as vice chair. The outgoing chair, Representative Ybarra, continued presiding for the remainder of the meeting at Senator Mazzal’s request.
The committee then heard a presentation from Sage Park of the Rosa Irrigation District on the severe 2025 water year. Park said Rosa is facing very low reservoir levels, declining water supply forecasts, and an earlier-than-planned end to the irrigation season. She described the district’s conservation and drought response measures, including canal shutdowns, pump-backs, leased water, on-farm fallowing and water pooling, emergency well permits, and long-term investments in piping, sealant, drip irrigation, and storage. Park also urged continued emergency drought funding, more efficient state lease funding processes, and support for water releases that benefit fish during drought conditions.
Urban Eberhard then presented on the Kittitas Reclamation District and the Yakima Basin Integrated Plan. He described widespread on-farm conservation, reduced acre allocations, early shutoffs expected in late summer, and ongoing infrastructure work such as piping, lining, telemetry, and the Springwood reservoir project. He emphasized that these projects are intended to improve water delivery, support fish flows, and provide future storage, including possible hydroelectric generation as part of feasibility work. In response to a question, he said the districts are monitoring aquifer impacts from canal lining and are working on managed aquifer recharge to direct conserved water to beneficial groundwater areas. No additional votes or formal actions were taken after the leadership elections.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Massachusetts Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Thank you.
- And when you dig deep into every single one of these municipalities' budgets, you start to see the root
- I'm sure that every single one of you get calls from constituents very frequently...
- I'm sure that every single one of you get calls from constituents very frequently that are lost, adolescents
- Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. Mr.
Summary:
The Senate took up debate on the FY2026 general appropriations bill, with several members speaking in support of the Ways and Means budget. Senators Comerford, O’Connor, Feeney, and DiDomenico emphasized the budget as a values-driven response to federal uncertainty, highlighting investments in MassHealth, education, housing, food security, local aid, libraries, transit, mental and behavioral health, and support for vulnerable residents. They also praised the budget’s lack of new taxes and its focus on spending within available revenues, while noting major cost pressures from health care and federal policy instability.
Specific programs and items repeatedly cited included universal free community college, expanded financial aid, rural and minimum school aid, TAFDC/EAEDC increases, the Healthy Incentives Program, universal school meals, housing supports, Home and Healthy for Good, and funding for Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital. Speakers framed these investments as both fiscally responsible and morally necessary, and several noted that amendments would be considered during the debate. No votes on the budget itself were taken in the excerpt.
After the budget remarks, Senator Miranda spoke in recognition of Haitian Flag Day and the history of Haiti, including foreign interference and the importance of protecting Haitian immigrants in Massachusetts. Another senator then honored Malcolm X on the 100th anniversary of his birth, connecting his legacy to the budget process and calling for investments in equity, education, housing, and health care. The Senate then adopted an order to meet the next day at 10 a.m. with the general appropriations bill as the only item on the calendar, and adjourned.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
'Parent's Bill of Rights' bill advances in House committee 2/12/25
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm welcome to however you'd like to call them. Thank you.
- So what line are you referring to when you talk about two parents, just so I’m not digging through?”
- </c> digging through Vice J Hansen thank you digging through Vice J Hansen thank you chair<00:43:07.720
- you about this before talk offline with you about this before it<01:06:01.160><c> goes</c><01:06:01.400
- That's where, you know, it's a phone call.
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Agriculture Oct 7th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- You recognize. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, you're recognized.
- You can hear the call of a sandhill crane echoing in the distance.
- Thank you. Senator Rowe. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Richard. Thank you for your presentation.
- Before the purchase? Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Any other questions? Well, we appreciate it.
- Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you.
Summary:
The Committee on Agriculture met to hear updates on land conservation and agricultural preservation programs. The Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services presented on the Rural and Family Lands Protection Program, explaining that it protects active agricultural lands through conservation easements while keeping land in private ownership and on the tax rolls. The director said the program requires participants to use agricultural best management practices, noted strong demand with 428 ranked projects for 2025, and reported that consistent legislative funding and partnerships with USDA, DOD, local governments, land trusts, and water management districts have expanded acreage protected, much of it within the Florida Wildlife Corridor. Committee members asked about eligibility, ranking, local government involvement, and how many projects are typically funded each year.
Conservation Florida’s president and CEO testified that both Rural and Family Lands and Florida Forever are critical and complementary tools for preserving working lands, wildlife habitat, water resources, and public access to nature. She warned that uncertainty or cuts in state funding can stall projects, raise land prices, and reduce conservation momentum. In discussion with senators, she said public access is often negotiated case by case and is more common on lands acquired for parks, forests, and other public green space than on conservation easements.
The Department of Environmental Protection then updated the committee on Florida Forever, describing it as the state’s premier conservation and recreation land acquisition program. DEP said Florida Forever uses both conservation easements and fee-simple purchases, with about half of acquisitions done through easements, and emphasized that steady funding is needed to keep projects moving. The deputy secretary reported 60 projects on the current work plan, more than $1.4 billion invested since 2019, and recent acquisitions including new state forest, park, and preserve expansions. Members also raised concerns about payment in lieu of taxes for fiscally constrained counties, local notification of acquisitions, and the need for continued support for agriculture, citrus, roads, and conservation funding. No formal votes were taken, and the meeting adjourned after member comments and public testimony.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
Legislative Finance Sub Committee Nov 19th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- McDowell, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for that.
- Thank you. Thank you, Madam. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I appreciate that.
- Thank you. No problem. Thank you. I just...
- Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you.
- Thank you. Thank you for that information.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
October 7, 2025 - 03:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- ORDER, I ASK YOU TO SILENCE YOUR ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND AMY CALL THE ROLL. >> Chair LaMarca: >> Vice
- MEMBERS BEFORE WE GET STARTED HERE I'D LIKE TO ASK YOU I THINK IT'S OCTOBER 7 AND I'D LIKE TO ASK YOU
- Franklin: THANK YOU FOR THIS PRESENTATION, THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO.
- IT'S IMPORTANT WE ALL DO THE PROCESS REQUIRED FOR LOCATING FACILITIES BEFORE WE START DIGGING, THAT'S
- ONE CALL CENTER WHEN YOU ARE DOING WORK AND THEY PROVIDE EFFECTIVE UTILITIES ESSENTIALLY 48 HOURS TO
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- Maybe you can get, you know, folks early in their tenure.
- You can't see any, you just got to take our word for it.
- You do.
- You do.
- Thank you. Thank you. Not a small thing, obviously. Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you.
Committee:
House Budget
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Artificial Intelligence and Data Center Committee Aug 13th, 2026 at 09:30 am
Artificial Intelligence and Data Center Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
- Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
- And all of this kind of adds up to what I call the case study of the, you know, the overwhelmed, you
- And all of this kind of adds up to what I call the case study of the, you know, the overwhelmed, you
- Can you hear okay?” “Oh, is it? I think you were. I think it was on before.” “All right.
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
Public Health and Welfare - Room 216, 3 March, 2026; 3:00 PM
Public Health and Welfare
Transcript Highlights:
- And I believe you have copies of that strike-all on 1622 before you.
- Thank you. I will call the committee to order and ask the secretary to call the roll.
- </c><00:53:38.160><c> you</c><00:53:38.960><c> Number</c> Um the bill that's before you Number Um the
- </c> just called out for you. just called out for you.
- And and I'm before I do >> Yes, thank you.
Committee:
Joint Public Health and Welfare
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Conference Committee on S.F. 4760 - Omnibus Public Safety policy provisions - 05/08/26
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> can will you hear my application before can will you hear my application before I've<01:34:58.280
- Thank you. >> Well, there is no formal motion before us at this time.
- Sorry, I've been calling you Representative Feist the whole time.
- > Feist</c><01:54:32.360><c> the</c> calling you Representative Feist the calling you Representative
- Thank you. >> Any further discussion before Chair Novotny moves adoption of the final report?
Summary:
The Public Safety Policy Conference Committee met on May 8, 2026, with all conferees present. The chair opened with decorum instructions, explained that the meeting was policy-only, and noted that no public testimony had been signed up. Members then introduced themselves, with several noting they were retiring at the end of the session or year.
The committee adopted a series of provisions, mostly by unanimous voice vote, including House language on identity theft and financial crimes updates, supervision abatement and restitution considerations for corrections, protective-order enhancements for murder penalties, prediction markets, victim-notification requirements for plea and sentencing hearings, research data privacy, ignition interlock and impaired-driving license changes, DOC licensing and sanctions for juvenile/adult community-based residential facilities, criminal-conviction employment and licensing standards, jail medication procedures, domestic abuse law changes, and a grant-use extension for dual-status/crossover youth funding. Several items were described as technical or clarifying changes, while others updated law to address AI-related identity theft, foreign protective orders, victim privacy, and corrections oversight.
The committee also heard discussion on a Senate provision allowing victims of domestic violence to petition for wireless account and phone-number transfers. A witness supported the concept but urged changes to better align the state language with existing federal law; members noted the issue might need another vehicle or further work. For the domestic abuse item, staff explained that an A15 amendment would later adjust the warrantless-arrest window from 28 days to 14 days. On the jail-medication item, a member emphasized the changes were clarifying and not an admission that last year’s law was flawed. All adopted provisions passed by voice vote without opposition.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Committee, February 17, 2026
Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- And Senator Pearson, I think we've heard this concern from you before and we've heard this concern from
- And Senator Pearson, I think we've heard this concern from you before and we've heard this concern from
- Calling Mr. Stewart. No, here I am. I'm here, Mr. Chairman. Can you hear me?
- Before I close, I'd like to thank you again.
- So, as I hear the conversation here, you and I have talked about this before on a number of occasions
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 3/4/26
Housing Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- see</c> purchases, when you dig deeper, you see purchases, when you dig deeper, you see that<00:27:19.279
- </c> relevant to the bill before you today. relevant to the bill before you today.
- And I often tell people now in that mediation space, in this moment before you go before the bench, you
- And I often tell people now in that mediation space, in this moment before you go before the bench, you
- This moment before you go before the bench, you have more authority than the judge does.
Committee:
House Housing Finance and Policy
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, you have before you House File 3425, a bill that, as mentioned, passed off the floor of the other
- Uh you have<00:00:52.840><c> before</c><00:00:53.080><c> you</c><00:00:53.200><c> House</c><00:00:53.480
- ><c> file</c><00:00:53.720><c> 3425,</c> have before you House file 3425, have before you House file
- Senator Pratt, um, you asked a good question, which is when are we going to call out things that we see
- Senator Pratt, um, you asked a good question, which is when are we going to call out things that we see
Committee:
Senate Finance