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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Delivery of Government Efficiency Mar 12th, 2025

Delivery of Government Efficiency

Transcript Highlights:
  • Cash management for y'all's funds.
  • Our city manager.
  • We terminated our city manager, city manager that we have now has been with us for 20 years. of years
  • We have a member-manager form of government, so usually the city manager is responsible for the day-to-day
  • From a security perspective, it is much more secure than our previous system in that it involves. a lot
Bills: HB10, HB 12, HB675, HB10, HB12
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Public Works and Highways (03/18/2025)

Transcript Highlights:
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  • information on the energy management information on the energy management what<01:37:44.719>
  • <03:08:09.800> systems<03:08:10.279> at energy management systems at energy management
  • <03:13:38.439> system case management system case management system 2,231 696<03:13:45.600
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Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The committee held a public hearing and work session on House Bill 25/25A, the capital improvements budget. Representative David Mills introduced HB 25A, which makes appropriations for capital improvements for the biennium and extends certain lapses from prior appropriations, noting it is based on Governor Ayotte’s budget. The hearing then focused on requests to add or restore funding for several projects, including community college capital needs, Veterans Home ADA and safety upgrades, career and technical education renovations in Milford, and airport infrastructure funding. Shannon Reed of the Community College System of New Hampshire asked for an additional $2.6 million for IT infrastructure, critical maintenance, and energy management systems, citing failing boilers, roof work, cybersecurity needs, and a recent costly water damage incident at Lakes Region Community College. John Graham, representing the New Hampshire Veterans Home, requested $1.5 million for ADA compliance and safety improvements such as floor replacement and wider doors, saying the work would help the home before an upcoming VA inspection and protect federal funding. Lance Whitehead testified for Milford CTE, asking the committee to keep $9.9 million in the budget for a scaled-down renovation; members discussed the town’s failed vote, the need for local matching funds, and the possibility of another vote next year. Tim Thompson of Concord and Margaret Burns of NHMA urged restoration of airport matching funds, arguing that about $3.6 million in state money would leverage roughly $62 million to $65 million in federal FAA funds for safety and infrastructure projects. Trisha Lambert and Andrew Pomroy of the Bureau of Aeronautics and airport management association explained the airport program, the 12 federally funded airports, and how projects are selected through airport master plans and a capital improvement program. After public testimony, the committee closed the hearing on HB 25A. In the work session that followed, staff distributed supporting documents, including cost breakdowns and comparison sheets. The chair indicated the committee would work from the governor’s $143 million capital budget as a baseline and proposed reducing it by about $10 million, largely by removing the Milford CTE item because both towns had voted it down and would not have another vote for a year. The chair said the goal was to bring the overall budget to about $133 million and then repurpose the remaining funds through straw polls and further committee action.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Intergovernmental Affairs Apr 8th, 2025

Intergovernmental Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Oftentimes, the hotel management structure is a third party.
  • We also fund the program through mortgage-backed securities.
  • deposits and moving expenses, which often act as a final burden to securing housing.
  • Housing assistance to find and secure a home.
  • Challenges faced by voucher holders to secure housing are real and quantifiable.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Apr 1st, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • transactions or an occupation tax on a registered securities market operator.
  • H.J.R. 4 would ban the legislature from ever taxing securities transactions or market operators, ever
  • This amendment would sunset the ban on occupation and transaction taxes related to security markets as
  • team or board of managers has been appointed, for the Committee on Public Education.
  • Committee on Homeland Security, Public Safety, and Veterans Affairs.
Bills: HJR4, HJR6, HB195, HB 13, HB143, HB135
FL

Florida 2026 5th Special Session

Appropriations Mar 2nd, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • Michael Cantenz, representing PCMA, the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association.
  • Security Protection Program.
  • Trying to adopt and find surrogates are a threat to national security.
  • Under tab 20, we'll take up HB 5207 by the Department of Management Services.
  • statewide Medicaid-managed care can contract based solely on infant mortality.
Summary: The Appropriations Committee considered a large agenda of bills and reported several measures favorably. Early action included SB 6, a settled claim bill involving the Department of Children and Families and a trust for Leila Estrada and Sapphire Williams, and CS/CS/SB 1266, which creates a cybersecurity experiential learning and clearance-readiness program through the Department of Commerce and Cyber Florida. The committee also approved SB 532 on clerks of court funding, allowing clerks to retain all excess Article V revenue rather than returning half to the state and clarifying foreclosure sale procedures. In addition, the committee passed CS/CS/SB 1602 and CS/CS/SB 1604 to create and fund a pilot housing program for veterans through the Florida Housing Finance Corporation, and CS/SB 1110 to expand Medicaid and private insurance coverage for medically necessary orthotics and prosthetics, including testimony from affected families and advocates. The committee also adopted an amendment and then favorably reported CS/CS/SB 1012 on inmate services, removing the bill’s medical-services compensation provisions while retaining changes to the inmate welfare trust fund and related facility uses. It also adopted a delete-all amendment and then favorably reported CS/CS/CS/SB 1614, which was narrowed to remove a provision allowing local governments to use excess fees to construct new buildings. The committee spent substantial time on CS/SB 17, a Medicaid oversight and transparency bill. The sponsor said the measure would create a joint legislative Medicaid oversight committee, authorize the Legislature to retain its own actuary, modernize Medicaid statutes, strengthen managed-care performance standards, and increase accountability for pharmacy benefit managers and related entities. After amendment, the committee adopted changes removing several PBM-related provisions while retaining the broader oversight framework. Testimony from supporters emphasized transparency, fraud prevention, and cost control, while a PBM trade association asked to continue working on affiliate-manufacturer, network, and payment issues. The bill was reported favorably. The most extensive discussion centered on CS/SB 1758, which proposes major changes to Medicaid and SNAP. The sponsor described five reforms: stronger fraud and overpayment recovery authority, a Medicaid work requirement for certain able-bodied adults, expanded behavioral-health services through Medicaid waivers, pharmacy-program changes to obtain rebates and reduce institutional costs, and SNAP/EBT reforms including photo IDs and work requirements. The committee adopted two amendments: one adding a transitional “glide path” for people who gain employment but risk losing Medicaid, and another exempting hospice patients with six months or less to live. Supporters argued the bill would reduce fraud, improve accountability, and encourage work, while opponents warned it would increase administrative burdens, push eligible people off coverage, and conflict with federal law or guidance. The bill remained under debate with extensive public testimony from advocates, providers, and affected families, and the transcript ends before final disposition on the measure.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:30:17.360> food, and who help patients secure food, and who help patients secure food,
  • partnerships<00:39:25.599> and Secured 70 new school partnerships and Secured 70 new school
  • As a and case management dollars.
  • Mahalo for your consideration. state partner managing the $22 million state partner managing the $22
  • Kohiki Hoya. food security supporting our partners in food security supporting our partners in the<02
Keywords: 910, house, all
Summary: This joint informational briefing on Act 310 grants and aid focused on organizations describing how federal funding cuts, Medicaid/SNAP changes, and related policy shifts are affecting their services and budgets. Committee members explained there would be no Q&A, testimony would be limited to one minute, and in-person participants would be heard before Zoom callers. Members repeatedly asked testifiers to identify the amount of federal funding lost or at risk. Testimony came from a wide range of nonprofits and community providers, including Aloha Care, Hawaii Bicycling League, Hawaii Literacy, Hawaii Youth Symphony, Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii, the Tsunami Museum, The Kohala Center, West Hawaii Community Health Center, West Hawaii Region Hospital Foundation, Sounding Joy Music Therapy, Big Brothers Big Sisters Hawaii, Dynamic Community Solutions, Feeding Hawaii Together, Girl Scouts of Hawaii, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Hawaii Youth Services Network, Hawaiian Lending and Investments, Homana, Honolulu Theatre for the Youth, Kids Hurt Too Hawaii, and Kokua Kalihi Valley. Most described reduced or threatened federal support and requested state funding to maintain services such as health care access, food security, disaster preparedness, literacy and digital inclusion, youth mentoring, arts education, housing, and climate or agricultural resilience. Several speakers emphasized direct impacts on vulnerable populations, including kūpuna, low-income families, immigrants, homeless youth, and people with disabilities. Requests ranged from relatively small planning or program grants to multi-million-dollar stabilization asks, with some organizations citing specific losses such as reduced Medicaid or USDA funding, canceled EPA or FEMA support, or expiring federal grants. No votes or formal committee actions were taken during the briefing.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Committee on State and Local Government - 01/30/25

State and Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • We looked at physical security, access management, network security, vulnerability and configuration
  • We looked at physical security, access management, network security, vulnerability and configuration
  • So the areas was access management, security and monitoring systems, various servers, and other areas
  • <00:58:12.520> security<00:58:12.920> and<00:58:13.119> monitoring management security
  • and monitoring management security and monitoring systems<00:58:14.319> various<00:58:14.720>
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
Summary: The committee first heard Senate File 563, a bill to change the board makeup of the Northern Koochiching Area Sanitary District. Senator Hild said the proposal had been heard the previous year and had broad support from local officials and stakeholders. Cali Briggs, the district’s executive director, explained that the board structure no longer reflected current populations and sewer service patterns: International Falls now holds six of eight seats after earlier consolidations, while East Koochiching has grown through sewer expansions and should receive additional representation. The bill would reduce the board to seven members, with International Falls having three seats, East Koochiching two, Rainier one, and one at-large member chosen by the board. The committee raised no substantive objections, and Senator Gustafson moved the bill to pass and go to general orders; the motion prevailed. Members then briefly joked about the topic and moved on to an overview from the Office of the Legislative Auditor. Legislative Auditor Judy Randall described the office as a nonpartisan legislative branch agency serving both chambers, with a mission of strengthening oversight, promoting accountability, and producing objective, useful reports. She outlined the office’s structure, including financial audits, program evaluations, and a growing special reviews unit, and explained the Legislative Audit Commission’s role in appointing the auditor and selecting program evaluation topics. Randall also emphasized the office’s broad access to records and data, its independence, and its responsibility to protect nonpublic information. Randall answered questions about the office’s authority over entities such as the University of Minnesota, explaining that OLA has audit authority there but often relies on the university’s internal audit function and can also conduct special reviews and program evaluations. She noted that public employees are required to cooperate and that subpoenas are available if needed, though the office prefers to maintain cooperative relationships. Special Reviews Director Katherine Tyson then described how her unit handles complaints and allegations involving misuse of public funds, data, or noncompliance with law, including preliminary assessments, communications with complainants and agencies, and deeper reviews when warranted. She said allegations and reports have increased steadily, with 481 received from 2020 through 2024 and nearly 10 per week on average last year, contributing to a heavier workload for her small team.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
  • They're designed to provide the security for networks.
  • So the next time to the right, there's grant management from 20 from 2022.
  • And we will also able as a result of this to do some work on election security.
  • Because election security is certainly something we're all very familiar with.
  • It don't have to manage this piece of physical says emotions.
Keywords: 999, senate, all
FL
Transcript Highlights:
  • You think about border security and a whole host of other missions.
  • You think about border security and a whole host of other missions.
  • We're asking for seven to responsibly and securely manage our networks and all of the equipment and technology
  • And last but not least, Director Kevin Guthrie, Division of Emergency Management.
  • This is our Department of Emergency Management enterprise system, how we manage all of our grants.
Summary: The committee met to hear the Governor’s proposed budget for the Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development silo and to consider one bill. The Governor’s Office outlined a $117.4 billion state budget, including $18.3 billion for the TED area, with major allocations for the Department of Transportation, Commerce, Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, State, Military Affairs, Emergency Management, and the Florida State Guard. Agency heads then presented their priorities, including housing and disaster recovery funds at Commerce; pay, vehicles, aviation, and data systems at Highway Safety; facility modernization, recruitment, retention, and maintenance at Military Affairs; election audit, conservation lab, and historic preservation funding at State; transportation, aviation, seaport, and safety investments at DOT; and emergency response, flood mitigation, grant systems, and alerting at Emergency Management. Members asked questions about Visit Florida’s private match, FHP’s role in immigration enforcement and body cameras, National Guard deployment tempo and staffing, State Guard staffing and facilities, arts grant rules, rail funding, and the number of detainees at the Everglades detention site. Several notable positions were expressed during questioning. Visit Florida said it met and exceeded its private match requirement and described the match as important to ensuring value from public dollars. The Highway Patrol said its aviation assets have been used more heavily in immigration enforcement and that in-vehicle camera systems were a higher priority than body cameras at present. The National Guard and State Guard both emphasized heavy operational demands, readiness needs, and the importance of additional funding for facilities, personnel, and equipment. The Department of State said its audit funding would help counties move to automated post-election audits and that its arts grant rule changes were intended to create more consistent scoring rather than reduce access. The committee then took up CS/SB 48 on accessory dwelling units. The bill requires local governments to allow property owners to voluntarily create ADUs, preserves homestead treatment for the primary residence portion, limits parking restrictions, and extends density bonus incentives to housing for military families receiving basic housing allowance. An amendment was adopted removing reusable tenant screening reports and clarifying that compliant ADUs are allowed by right without a separate hearing or permit. Testimony from the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association supported the bill, especially the long-term rental requirement, as a tool to help workforce housing. The committee reported the bill favorably by a roll call vote, and then adjourned.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 4/7/26

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • This proposal will allow DCT to explore operating security body scanners in its secure facilities in
  • body body scanners in operating security body body scanners in its<00:03:34.560> secure<00:03
  • its secure facilities in the future. its secure facilities in the future.
  • or don't have case management. or don't have case management.
  • Managed care at the MCO piece.
Keywords: 1183, house
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Finance (04/08/2025)

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • If uh OBA is not here, I think uh director Bton from Homeland Security Emergency Management would be
  • If uh OBA is not here, I think uh director Bton from Homeland Security Emergency Management would be
  • If uh OBA is not here, I think uh director Bton from Homeland Security Emergency Management would be
  • If uh OBA is not here, I think uh director Bton from Homeland Security Emergency Management would be
  • If uh OBA is not here, I think uh director Bton from Homeland Security Emergency Management would be
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
AR

Arkansas 2026 Regular Session

ALC-REVIEW Mar 17th, 2026

ALC-REVIEW

Transcript Highlights:
  • compensation management, and career development planning modules.
  • Number five, Department of Education with Umbrella Security Solutions.
  • Number 13, DHS, DCFS, with Secure Foundation Counseling.
  • Number 22, Department of Military, with Waste Management.
  • Number 24, University of Arkansas, with Dynamic Integrated Security.
Summary: The ALC-Review Subcommittee reviewed seven methods of finance, including university projects at ASU Jonesboro and Mountain Home, Black River Technical College deferred maintenance, UA Batesville’s Farm Project Gateway Center, UAMS PET cyclotron equipment, a new allied health building at UAPB funded by a federal grant, and UCA’s multi-purpose arena design work. The committee also approved an alternative delivery construction project for UAPB’s Allied Health and Sciences Building, with East Harding Construction selected and AMR Architects as designer. Members then approved discretionary grants from the Department of Health and DHS, including support for a heart attack center designation, community health worker training, homeless services funding corrections, behavioral health transition support, and an enabling technology pilot. In the contracts section, the committee reviewed RFQs, construction-related contracts, intergovernmental contracts, and a large slate of out-of-state and in-state contracts covering topics such as seatbelt survey data collection, Medicaid and DHS systems, state hospital staffing and services, veterans’ services, education assessments, and state IT and procurement projects. Several contracts drew extended questioning. Senators and representatives pressed DHS and the Department of Veterans Affairs about heavy reliance on contract nursing and staffing costs, and officials said they were using pay incentives and recruitment efforts to increase state employee staffing. Members also questioned AEDC’s lithium supply chain study and the Department of Education’s security contract, with concerns about projected costs and repeated amendments. The committee held three in-state contracts—Department of Education security services and two DHS staffing contracts—until Friday, then adopted the remaining contracts and received informational reports on contract amendments, executed contracts, and emergency procurements before adjourning.
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Legislative Finance Nov 18th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • They pay for and manage our case management system throughout the state.
  • We have just three security staff.
  • , security gates, and the like.
  • It's a security cybersecurity management tool that helps us keep up with the cyber criminals that are
  • , but we have not moved our case management Data to the cloud.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Health and Human Services - 02/19/25

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Only 48% of those households are food secure.
  • And 74% of households with children are food secure.
  • our funding for the food security our funding for the food security network<00:26:52.200> thank
  • of uh of security for the foundation of uh of security for families<00:48:35.319> if<00:48:35.559
  • families if you don't have food security families if you don't have food security it<00:48:37.520
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, May 13, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It removes taxes on Social Security.
  • It removes taxes on Social Security.
  • Managed by the U.S.
  • to manage the land in question.
  • to manage the land in question.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

PBS Public Hearing - Wed Feb 11, 2026 @ 8:30 AM HST

Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • The vast majority of inmates on the mainland are minimum-security, medium-security, and higher.
  • You have to have certain security features that minimum-security facilities don't have.
  • <00:30:03.919> minimum<00:30:04.320> security medium security minimum security medium
  • Chang. assistance with securing employment. assistance with securing employment.
  • <01:13:54.080> Burrows, Management Agency. Mr. Burrows, Management Agency. Mr.
Bills: HB1769
Summary: The committee heard House Bill 1769, which would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to incrementally reduce the number of people incarcerated in private out-of-state correctional institutions. The DCR director opposed the bill, saying the department does not control overall prison population levels because courts determine admissions, and arguing that Hawaiʻi’s in-state facilities are already over capacity, especially Halawa, which he said is 165% over design capacity. He said only a small portion of the population is under departmental control through furlough programs and argued that bringing people home would require building a new medium-security prison. Supporters, including the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission, the Public Defender’s office, and several individuals, argued the bill creates a phased, accountable path to reduce reliance on mainland prisons and bring people home. Supporters emphasized the harms of separating incarcerated people from ʻohana and culture, the disproportionate impact on Native Hawaiians, and the need for diversion, treatment, re-entry support, and fair sentencing. Several testifiers also said the department has more control than it claimed, pointing to underused furlough options, reclassification, and empty beds at some in-state facilities, while others urged clearer statutory language and guardrails. Members questioned the director about whether people could be reclassified or moved to available beds at facilities such as Kulani and Waiawa, and about whether the department could do more through staffing and contract changes. The director said some proposals had been sent to the Department of Human Resource Development, but that major facility changes would be costly and that minimum-security facilities would need substantial upgrades to house medium-security inmates. After discussion, the chair said the committee would defer HB 1769 to Wednesday, February 18, 2026, at 11:30 a.m. for decision-making and adjourned the meeting.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 3rd, 2026 at 09:10 am

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • CISO, Chief Information Security Officer. Greg Rockstro, our CIO. Jesse. Gutierrez, our Deputy CIO.
  • We also increase the cyber security.
  • We also are seeking an economic development manager.
  • We only have two people managing 20 billion.
  • And then I'm hesitant about cyber security because I don't know how many years we've had cyber security
Keywords: 996, all
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, April 21, 2026)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • previous secretary of homeland security. previous secretary of homeland security.
  • shutdown of our homeland security shutdown of our homeland security operations<02:30:46.240>
  • Security. Security.
  • <02:49:47.920> officers airports, the cyber security officers airports, the cyber security
  • <04:38:38.879> for stability, and a loss of security for stability, and a loss of security
FL

Florida 2026 5th Special Session

FL House Floor Session - 2025-04-30 (10:00AM Session)

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We have an Office of Election Crimes and Security.
  • We have an Office of Election Crimes and Security.
  • We have an office of election crimes and security.
  • Perhaps want to go ahead and get services through managed care.
  • So, you know, I'm not really a huge fan of managed care.
Summary: The Florida Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several recognitions, including interns, Denim Day awareness for sexual assault survivors, a resolution honoring Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange, and a memorial proclamation for former Senator Karen Johnson Gendron. The chamber then moved to special-order bills, with senators also briefly discussing the session’s pace and thanking staff and colleagues for their work. The first major bill, on driving and boating offenses, was amended and passed 37-0. As amended, it increases penalties for repeat DUI/BUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide/vessel homicide offenses, and adds notice requirements and misdemeanor penalties for refusing lawful breath or urine tests. Senators also passed SB 306 on Medicaid providers 37-0, requiring Medicaid managed care plans to offer more after-hours and holiday access and ensuring more primary care appointment availability outside regular business hours. The Senate then passed a major condominium and cooperative associations bill, also 37-0, after extensive debate and multiple amendments. The measure extends deadlines for structural integrity reserve studies, adds flexibility for reserve funding and budgeting, tightens rules for managers and inspectors, limits certain requirements to buildings of three or more habitable stories, and extends the rescission period for condo purchases. Senators from both parties praised the bill’s sponsors for years of work responding to post-Surfside safety and affordability concerns. The longest and most contentious item was SB 7016/HB 1205 on constitutional amendment petition procedures. Sponsors said the bill responds to fraud and abuse in the citizen initiative process by tightening circulator rules, requiring faster submission of signed petitions, adding voter notification, increasing penalties, and shifting costs to sponsors. Opponents argued it would burden volunteers and make it harder for citizens to qualify initiatives. The chamber adopted a series of amendments, including changes to the petition-circulator threshold, volunteer protections, submission timing, invalid-signature investigation thresholds, and notice/cure provisions, while debate continued over whether the overall package would protect election integrity or suppress citizen-led amendments.
AR

Arkansas 2026 1st Special Session

JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE Mar 4th, 2026

JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE

Transcript Highlights:
  • The transfer was born under prior management.
  • Kay Barnhill with Office of Personnel Management.
  • Kay Barnhill with Office of Personnel Management.
  • There's more resources with cash funds, things like that, and, you know, security is security.
  • Of those 1,500, how many of those are security?
Summary: The committee first considered revisions to the JBC rules, which staff said were all prompted by acts passed in the 2025 legislative session. The rules were adopted without objection. Members then received a balanced budget presentation from DFA Secretary Jim Hudson on the governor’s FY27 proposal, which he said was built around three priorities: limiting state government growth, continuing investments in education, and advancing income tax cuts. He highlighted major additions for education funding, EFA growth, pay plan costs, higher education productivity funding, drug task forces, corrections medical costs, the governor’s 1033 initiative, SNAP error-rate reduction, and Medicaid sustainability, while also explaining a new A/B funding category structure intended to prioritize recurring costs and preserve room for tax cuts. Members questioned Hudson about the cost of income tax reductions, the constitutional balanced-budget requirement, education funding, the Educational Adequacy Fund, Medicaid trust fund balances, and the impact of federal changes on Medicaid and SNAP. Hudson said each tenth of a percent income tax cut would cost about $58 million, the budget remained balanced, public education would still receive historic increases, and the Medicaid trust fund would be monitored closely with additional set-asides proposed. He also said the FY27 SNAP administrative cost increase would be about $18 million. The committee then heard from the Division of Higher Education, which reported institutions were 2.61% more productive overall and that the budget recommendation followed the statutory productivity formula. Questions focused on why some institutions were receiving decreases or large increases, how the formula works, and how the new return-on-investment metric and committee composition would affect future funding. The committee approved several higher education-related actions, including personnel changes for nine institutions and special language for North Arkansas College’s move into the University of Arkansas system. Staff then walked members through the higher education appropriation summary, explaining large percentage increases at several institutions were tied to federal funds or corrected carry-forward issues, including the U of A School of Mathematical, Sciences and the Arts, South Arkansas College, SAU Tech, ASU Mountain Home, and ASU Newport. Members also discussed UAPB’s 1890 extension program and the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture’s land-grant matching funds; officials said UAPB’s recommendation was being aligned with actual spending and that the Division of Agriculture’s Smith-Lever and Hatch matches were included within its overall appropriation. The committee ultimately adopted the Higher Education Coordinating Board’s recommendations for all institutions and then moved on to the Department of Corrections section, with the chair outlining how the committee would proceed through those appropriations by section.