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NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Executive Departments and Administration (01/30/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- , so this is paid for by the system.
- 637 yes I think the retirement system 637 yes I think the retirement system should<03:30:16.040>
- and that form of of retirement system and that form of of retirement system has<03:59:52.520>
- The system is not broken.
- The system is not broken.
Summary:
The committee first took up House Bill 622, but after the sponsor said further research raised concerns, he asked that the bill be tabled. The committee then moved in executive session and voted unanimously to find the bill inexpedient to legislate, sending it to consent. The committee also retained House Bill 349, the ophthalmologic laser bill, after members said more time was needed for the professions involved to work out training standards and provide additional information; that motion also passed unanimously.
The committee then discussed House Bill 244, a municipal building/fire code recodification measure. Members said the bill needed more review and careful scrutiny because of its length and possible unintended effects, and they voted unanimously to retain it as well. House Bill 534 was then heard; the sponsor said the bill did not do what was intended because of a misunderstanding about current processing, and the committee voted inexpedient to legislate and placed it on consent.
The committee next considered House Bill 233, with an amendment to remove a requirement affecting the New Hampshire Vaccine Association. Supporters argued the bill would reduce an unnecessary burden and improve transparency, while opponents said the committee should not single out one private 501(c)(3) organization. The amendment was adopted 8-5, and the bill as amended then passed 7-6; a minority report was requested. Finally, the committee opened House Bill 536, a proposed 1.5% cost-of-living adjustment for certain state retirees. The sponsor and supporters argued retirees had not received adequate COLAs and that the bill would help offset inflation, while the retirement system testified that the proposal would add significant costs, including an estimated $1.5 million for the state, $6.6 million for political subdivisions, and about $100.7 million in present-value unfunded liability, with the impact reflected in future employer contribution rates.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services (04/14/2026)
Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
Transcript Highlights:
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The compensation insurance coverage. The compensation insurance coverage. - the purposes of workers compensation the purposes of workers compensation insurance<00:48:37.280
- that the workers' compensation system is the one that's responsible for injuries when they occur.
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that's compensation system is the one that's compensation system is the one that's - That's the free market system. Right? That's the free market system.
Summary:
The committee opened its labor hearing on SB 655 and outlined the day’s schedule, including a later working session on SB 416 and an executive session planned for 2:30 p.m. Senator Dan Innis introduced SB 655, describing it as a technical bill affecting employee leasing companies/professional employer organizations (PEOs), workers’ compensation coverage, and a Senate-added minimum wage exemption for minor league baseball players covered by a collective bargaining agreement. He said the PEO change would let either the PEO or the client business hold workers’ comp coverage, while still requiring coverage, and argued it would align New Hampshire with most other states and reduce barriers for small businesses and multi-state employers. He also said the baseball provision would clarify wage treatment for minor league players and support the Manchester team.
Justin Warell of Insperity testified in support of the PEO portion, explaining that PEOs provide HR, payroll, benefits administration, and workers’ compensation administration through a co-employment model. He said the bill would preserve mandatory coverage while allowing flexibility for the client or PEO to maintain the policy, which could help clients who already have preferred coverage or who face cost or administrative issues in multiple states. He noted that most clients would still remain under the PEO’s policy and said Insperity would submit written comments. Committee members asked about how the arrangement would work, whether the client or PEO would pay, and whether the bill would affect liability insurance packaging; Warell said the employer still bears the cost and that the bill mainly gives larger clients an option. One member asked him to remain available for possible follow-up after hearing from the labor department.
Stephen Gonzalez of Major League Baseball testified in support of the minor league baseball exemption. He said MLB and the MLB Players Association negotiated a collective bargaining agreement that already provides players with salary, housing, meals, per diems, health and retirement benefits, disability continuation, tuition assistance, and signing bonuses. He argued that treating players as hourly workers creates impractical time-tracking problems because players do work-related activities on their own time, and said the bill would recognize them as salaried workers and avoid litigation over what counts as hours worked. Committee members questioned why the exemption was needed if players are already salaried and whether MLB could simply amend its CBA; Gonzalez said the bill would help prevent wage-and-hour lawsuits and noted that similar exemptions have been enacted in other states. No vote was taken during the hearing, and the chair indicated the bill would be considered for executive action later that afternoon.
VA
Virginia 2026 1st Special Session
Commission on Unemployment Compensation Jul 9th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- We are calling the meeting of the Commission on Unemployment Compensation to order.
- That means that we have a strong unemployment system.
- So we are through our unemployment insurance system, We are through our unemployment insurance system
- I'm very interested in making sure that we make our system, Virginia's unemployment system, the best
- We make our system, Virginia's unemployment system, the best in the country. So thank you.
Summary:
The Commission on Unemployment Compensation met, established a quorum, and elected Delegate Destiny LeVere Bolling as chair and Senator Mike Jones as vice chair. The commission also adopted its electronic meeting policy and heard introductions from new members, staff, and officials from the Secretary of Labor’s office and the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC). Secretary Jessica Lumen outlined the administration’s workforce and labor priorities, including supporting workers, employers, and program transparency, while members raised concerns about business climate, job losses, labor participation, and the implementation of paid family and medical leave.
Staff provided legislative updates on recent unemployment-related bills. These included increases to the weekly unemployment benefit amount enacted in 2025 and 2026, a bill on labor dispute disqualification that changed how lockouts are treated for benefit eligibility, and a budget item providing $75,000 for actuarial support to the commission. The commission also discussed the 2025 work group on annual adjustments to weekly benefit amounts; staff reported that the work group did not complete its charge, and members agreed to revisit whether to reconstitute it at a future meeting. Delegate Martinez expressed support for continuing the work, and the chair said the issue would be taken up at the next meeting.
Deputy Commissioner Joanna Darkus gave a detailed presentation on Virginia’s unemployment insurance system, including current claims data, eligibility rules, employer tax structure, benefit levels, trust fund solvency, fraud prevention, and customer service operations. She reported that Virginia’s unemployment rate remains low, weekly claims are modest, the current weekly benefit range is $160 to $478, and the trust fund balance factor is projected at 50.9 percent, near the threshold for additional employer charges. Members asked about the taxable wage base, trust fund solvency, the effect of benefit increases, fraud controls, and the planned paid family and medical leave program. VEC said it is implementing that program through regulations, staffing, IT procurement, public listening sessions, and consultation with other states. A public commenter from the Virginia Poverty Law Center urged the commission to strengthen state investment in unemployment insurance and warned that federal support is uncertain. The commission then adjourned without taking further action.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
WAM-LBT, WAM-TCA, WAM-HHS Informational Briefings 01-16-2025
Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- into payroll into various HR System into payroll into various other<00:09:47.560>
systems <00: - system.
- Compensation branch is—um, Joy here, in the back, she does all the compensation work.
- We're getting rid of our old legacy system and going to a new system.
- and our correctional system.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Appropriations - S/C on Articles VI, VII, & VIII Feb 25th, 2025
Appropriations - S/C on Articles VI, VII, & VIII
Transcript Highlights:
- It included software and system updates to the Texas wholesale distributor Program and the RXPad system
- The first exceptional item is compensation adjustments.
- The 3rd exceptional item is technology and system upgrades.
- Our new licensing system went live in August.
- Um, I do not know the details of his compensation.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Texas Ethics Commission Dec 10th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- This is a contract for maintenance services and enhancements for the electronic filing system.
- Cates will, will make a good point, um, as it relates to the compensation threshold and just to orient
- everyone, the law set the compensation threshold before one would have to register as a lobbyist at
- So even if you exceed the compensation threshold in lobbying, you wouldn't be required to register if
- Um, the compensation threshold is at, um, what did you say $1600 1930, 1930.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on Rules and Administration - 06/13/25
Rules and Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- the only changes in the budget from what you have seen previously are increases related to the compensation
- <00:10:31.519>
Just in the compensation resolution. Just in the compensation resolution. - Um, so how we're going to compensate our staff moving forward.
- And then I'll also compensation plans.
- Uh, Senator Rusk moves to adopt the committee resolution 17 related to employee compensation.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Health and Human Services Jan 30th, 2026 at 08:34 am
House Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- fund or out of the patient compensation fund.
- So I am not—I am bifurcating the system.
- So I am not, I am bifurcating the system.
- However, if you are a system, specifically a multibillion-dollar system, I’m happy to read what some
- That is a systems problem, right?
WV
West Virginia 2026 Regular Session
WV Senate Banking and Insurance Committee in Session Mar 11th, 2026 at 02:34 pm
Banking and Insurance
Transcript Highlights:
- for workers' compensation to a competitive private market system.
- We had a state-run workers’ compensation system that was a complete failure. It failed everybody.
- had a privatized system.
- But I want to just point out that 20 years ago, we had a state-run workers’ compensation system with
- He asked whether a million dollars in coverage is enough for those large school systems.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 5 on Corrections, Public Safety, Judiciary, Labor and Transportation May 20th, 2026
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Courts, Corrections and Justice Nov 7th, 2025
Courts, Corrections & Justice Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- I want to talk about the Patient Compensation Fund (PCF) a little bit.
- This is why the Patient Compensation Fund plays with house money.
- Yes, we call it the Patient Compensation Fund.
- So they will not go through the Patient's Compensation Fund.
- It's not the way our system works. The system works.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- An internal chargeback accounting system is monotonous. It's very cumbersome.
- An internal chargeback accounting system is monotonous. It's very cumbersome.
- jurisdictions um we could have a system jurisdictions um we could have a system that<00:42:36.599
- from the workers compensation from the workers compensation fund<01:03:17.680>
um <01:03:17.839 - This pertains to the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals.
Summary:
The Senate Labor Committee heard Senate File 560, a bill to require the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to establish a cost-per-square-foot valuation for residential building permits. Senator Dornink said the measure is intended to make permit fees more fair, reasonable, transparent, and predictable, and to reduce housing costs by limiting large differences in permit fees between municipalities. He said the bill would be sent to the Housing Committee without recommendation, and members discussed but did not act on a related amendment that would have shifted plan review and inspection fees to hourly and trip-based charges and made fee information publicly available.
Testimony from Housing First Minnesota supported the bill’s goal, arguing that Minnesota’s housing shortage and high new-home prices make it important to reduce inefficiencies in the permitting system. The witness said permit valuations are often increased by cities, leading to higher costs for homebuyers, and cited examples of large fee differences between municipalities and claims of overcollection. He said some other states, including Texas and Wisconsin communities, use square-footage-based approaches. A League of Minnesota Cities representative opposed the amendment language and cautioned that trip charges and hourly billing would make fees less certain, could raise costs, and would be especially burdensome in Greater Minnesota; he said current valuation-based fees better reflect the actual cost and complexity of service and can be appealed if disputed.
A representative of the Association of Minnesota Building Officials also raised concerns about the amendment, saying building departments provide consultations, inspections, plan review, and other services beyond a single trip, and that trip charges would not fit a responsive fee-for-service model. He said the current valuation system helps cover the full range of permitting work, though he acknowledged that a consistent square-foot valuation standard could improve transparency and reduce disputes over project value. Committee members asked about other states’ approaches and the scope of the bill, and the discussion emphasized that the proposal applies to one- and two-family dwellings.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- On to Senate Bill 1567, Senate Draft 1, House Draft 1, relating to classification and compensation systems
- systems.
- On to Senate Bill 1567, Senate Draft 1, House Draft 1, relating to classification and compensation systems
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Senate <00:10:24.160>conferries compensation systems. - Senate conferries compensation systems.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-03-09 (1:00PM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- And the system four years ago worked.
- So the question is for clarity regarding the compensation or the allowable compensation.
- Again, it's only the compensation piece that would be negotiated on this.
- And it's time that we start addressing, compensating them fairly.
- And it's time that we start addressing, compensating them fairly.
Summary:
The House convened with prayer, a moment of silence for former Lee County Judge John Carlin, the Pledge of Allegiance, and recognition of Officer Cody Popple of the FSU Police Department for his actions during the April campus shooting. The Speaker also outlined the final week of session, noting the chamber had passed 253 House bills and 149 Senate bills to date, with budget negotiations still unresolved and the 2026-27 budget not expected to be completed that week. The special order report was adopted, setting the day’s calendar and debate times.
The chamber then took up several Senate bills, mostly technical or open-government sunset review measures, and passed them with little or no opposition: SB 100, SB 104, and SB 102 on Florida statutes; SB 7006, SB 7014, SB 7002, SB 7012, SB 7024, SB 7016, SB 7026, SB 7008, SB 7000, and SB 7004 on public-records or meeting exemptions; and SB 7022 on public records related to exams. Members asked questions on a few of these bills, especially the exam-records bill and the military and gaming-related exemptions, but the measures generally advanced without amendment. Votes ranged from unanimous to modest opposition, with SB 7026 passing 106-3 and SB 7022 passing 101-8.
The most substantial debate centered on SB 7040, which recreates the emergency preparedness and response trust fund in the Executive Office of the Governor. Rep. Eskamani offered an amendment to let the fund expire, arguing the money had been misused and that the Legislature should retain control over spending; several members supported her position, while others said the fund is needed for rapid disaster response. A strike-all amendment from Rep. Griffiths was adopted instead, adding accountability provisions and expanding the fund to cover man-made emergencies as well as natural disasters. The bill then passed 82-25. The House also passed CS/CS/SB 302 on coastal resiliency, CS/CS/SB 984 on firefighter cancer benefits, CS/SB 474 on military affairs, and SB 488 on Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles issues, with SB 488 still under amendment debate when the transcript ends.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- The UI system is supposed to be self-correcting.
- That’s kind of how the system works.
- Okay, moving on to the next item of the agenda: HB 423 relating to workers’ compensation.
- Hawaii Hawaii workers comp compensation Hawaii Hawaii workers comp compensation law<00:36:28.800
- hb27 uh relating to workers compensation hb27 uh relating to workers compensation medical<01:01:
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Eees could contribute to the employees' retirement system and begin accruing service credit.
- I am the chairman of the Houston Firefighters Pension System.
- It was that tiered system. That was my legislation back in '86.
- Um, it's a new tier, uh, established under the Texas Teachers Retirement System.
- As a resource we have Daniel Harper from uh CFO from the Texas State University System.
Bills:
HB104
Keywords:
property tax, ad valorem tax, tax rate election, voter-approval tax rate, no-new-revenue tax rate, de minimis rate, local government, special district, tax increase, tax notice, public hearing, tax code, Health and Safety Code, Texas property taxes, taxing unit, election threshold, two-thirds vote, majority vote, budget approval
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 2 on Resources, Environmental Protection and Energy May 21st, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- and our San Joaquin River systems.
- One of those is indirect loss compensation.
- One of those is indirect loss compensation.
- Those things probably wouldn't be compensable under an insurance policy.
- Having a good transit system is something that California should care about.
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 087 Apr 11th, 2026
Colorado House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Workers' compensation.
- <02:47:53.520>
1026,282 workers compensation 1026,282 workers compensation 1026,282 26,282 - shall be from the workers compensation shall be from the workers compensation cash<02:57:40.160>
- Division of Workers' Compensation. 8A. Workers' Compensation, 10,776,083.
- Workers' compensation, C183, 349, D10264, I, E. Workers' compensation, C183, 349, D10264, I, E.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, Chair, let me ask our administrator of the disability compensation division, Joanne Viddenhard, to
- <00:22:07.360>
division of uh disability compensation division of uh disability compensation - network, the Hawaii employers uh system. network, the Hawaii employers uh system.
- closed cases and we did compensations closed cases and we did not<00:24:48.559>
receive <00:24 - However, we're of course willing and able to help them with the HR analysis, the compensation and the
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division I (03/11/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- The youth employment law and the workers' compensation law allow us to penalize without warning, and
- The youth employment law and the workers' compensation law allow us to penalize without warning, and
- provisions back to insurance carriers who have paid monies on acceptable compensable claims.
- If you look at the workers' compensation statute, there's an assessment mechanism.
- carrier pays on a worker's compensation carrier pays on a worker's compensation claim<00:17:50.480
Summary:
The committee first discussed a proposed increase to the annual elevator certificate fee in the Department of Labor. The commissioner said the fee had been $50 for years and generated just under $300,000 annually, while the Inspection Division’s broader revenue far exceeded its expenses. Members noted the fee only covered the certificate, not the inspection itself, which is billed separately at $100 per hour. After comparing the fee to neighboring states and discussing the department’s revenue and staffing, the committee agreed to rewrite the language to set the fee at $75 and to vote on an amendment later.
The committee then took up Section 139, which would expand the list of labor-law violations that can be penalized without first issuing a warning. The Department explained the change was meant to align House Bill 157 with other chapters, including youth employment and workers’ compensation provisions, where immediate civil penalties are already allowed. The section was accepted unanimously.
A longer discussion followed on the Second Injury Fund. The commissioner explained that the fund reimburses insurers for certain workers’ compensation costs tied to claims involving pre-existing conditions, is financed by assessments on insurers, and requires notice within 100 weeks of injury plus a $10,000 deductible before reimbursement. He said the fund currently holds roughly $16 million to $22 million, one full-time employee administers it, and total staff involvement is about five to six people. Members questioned whether the fund should be sunset, but the department said the current House Bill 2 language does not propose a sunset; instead, it addresses increased hearing and litigation burdens after a recent Supreme Court decision. Sections 140 and 141, dealing with hearings, were then accepted unanimously. The committee also briefly discussed fines for late insurance coverage reporting, with the department noting the current rubric allows up to $50 per day but uses $112 per day, and members suggesting a lower amount.