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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Human services policy bill clears committee 4/3/25
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- <00:09:52.000><c> Support</c> Community Support Community Support Services<00:09:55.240><c> also</c><
- </c> allowable Grant activities um accessing allowable Grant activities um accessing caregiver<00:11:
- </c> that allows a certified community that allows a certified community behavioral<00:12:23.639><c>
- </c> section also requires recovery Community section also requires recovery Community organizations<
- </c><00:17:58.840><c> Community</c> uh specifies that community Community uh specifies that community
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight Jun 2nd, 2025
New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- That's really what our job is, is to make grants and loans.
- We've been able to deliver um the Federal CARES grant.
- and the second tranche of their stabilization grants.
- Um, has to be made as grants.
- supplemental grant.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 1/16/25
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:03:38.879><c> Support</c> and Community Support and Community Support issues<00:03:42.000><c>
- You have a grant of a million dollars; it might be one time, but if it's an ongoing grant, then the grant
- </c> way the budget works is that Grant way the budget works is that Grant programs<00:14:55.720><c>
- The Homeless Youth Act provides competitive grants for street and community outreach and drop-in programs
- for Street and competitive grants for Street and community<01:04:51.720><c> outreach</c><01:04:52.400
Committee:
House Human Services Finance and Policy
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Hearing Assembly Select Committee on the Nonprofit Sector and Senate Select Committee on the Nonprofit Sector Aug 19th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- communities experiencing the disaster.
- The other is many of the grants, and these may be federal grants coming through the state.
- behalf of their communities.
- They get the job done in their communities.
- They get the job done in their communities.
Summary:
The joint Senate and Assembly Select Committee hearing focused on the nonprofit sector’s mounting challenges in 2025 and possible state responses. Opening remarks emphasized the sector’s size and importance in California, the impact of federal funding disruptions and new federal tax policy, and the need for stronger public-private coordination, especially during disasters. Witnesses and members repeatedly pointed to nonprofits as essential providers of food, housing, health, education, environmental, and emergency services, while warning that sudden funding losses are forcing layoffs, service cuts, and operational instability.
Testimony from community foundations and food bank leaders described how federal cuts, delayed reimbursements, and disaster-related demand are straining nonprofits. Monica White of Food Share Ventura County said H.R. 1 and USDA food cancellations are worsening hunger needs, while immigration enforcement fears are keeping some families from seeking help. Abby Browning of Cal OES outlined how the state coordinates with nonprofits, philanthropy, and businesses through VOADs and long-term recovery groups in wildfire response. Bruce Yerman of the Camp Fire Collaborative said recovery groups are effective but lack dedicated funding, and urged flexible spending, sustainable support, and streamlined partnerships.
The second half of the hearing focused on institutional reforms, including a proposed Office of Nonprofit Empowerment, advance payments, prompt payment, and higher indirect cost coverage. Jeff Green of CalNonprofits argued for a central state office to coordinate policy, technical assistance, and interagency alignment. Annie Chang of Nonprofit Finance Fund cited survey data showing widespread late payments, low cash reserves, and indirect cost rates below federal guidance. Alfredo Cruz Jr. of Community Resource Project described how reimbursement-only contracts, delayed payments, and underfunded overhead create cash-flow crises and staffing problems. Members discussed possible interim steps, including expanding advance pay, improving payment timeliness, modeling best practices, and using state leadership to spotlight nonprofit needs. The hearing ended with public comment from nonprofit, labor, and advocacy representatives, and no votes or formal actions were taken.
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- grants throughout the state.
- grants throughout the state.
- So page seven is our Perkins grant.
- So page seven is our Perkins grant.
- Page 25 is the IDEA grant. Page 25 is the IDEA grant. Again, $20 million federal money.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Public Safety Committee Meeting - 2025-03-28
Public Safety Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- We're also asking for grant administration authority for all the grants that we administer and oversee
- This proposal would protect those grant fund investments and allow us to use up to 5% of grant funds
- for noncompetitive grants and 10% of grant funds for competitive grants to make sure That we're able
- The first is for crime victim services grants, which support a network of over 150 community-based organizations
- First of all, thank you all for your support and efforts to protect our community and keep all our communities
Bills:
HF2432
Committee:
House Public Safety Finance and Policy
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Hearing Assembly Labor and Employment and Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Mar 12th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Communities in the state.
- and to the other workers and communities. ...harm to the community and to the other workers and community
- While NDWG provides much-needed support to communities impacted by disasters, the grants do have specific
- to weather this storm, and that many community members are ineligible for availability. grants known
- While NDODG provides much-needed support to communities impacted by disasters, the grants do have specific
Summary:
The joint Senate and Assembly labor committees held a hearing on the Los Angeles wildfires and their impact on workers, employers, and recovery efforts. Chairs and members emphasized that rebuilding should prioritize worker safety, equity, local hiring, and strong labor standards rather than simply moving quickly or relying on the lowest bidder. They also stressed the need to learn from past disasters and to create a more coordinated state response for future emergencies.
Worker advocates described how domestic workers, day laborers, firefighters, and other frontline workers were affected by the fires. Testimony focused on workers being trapped in evacuation zones, lacking timely information in Spanish, losing jobs and income, and facing exposure to toxic debris without adequate PPE. Speakers called for expanded outreach and education, stronger Cal/OSHA enforcement, broader occupational safety coverage for domestic workers and day laborers, recall and transfer rights, childcare and transportation support, and a centralized disaster relief system that can quickly deliver cash aid and equipment regardless of immigration status.
Firefighter Derek Irwin said California firefighters face serious carcinogenic exposure and urged continued funding for the firefighter cancer prevention and research program, along with a long-term state health monitoring and research effort similar to the World Trade Center Health Program. Building trades and labor representatives argued that cleanup and rebuilding should be done through community workforce agreements, prevailing wage, apprenticeship requirements, and local hire provisions, and said the state already has trained workers available. They also said federal debris-removal work through the Army Corps has limited the state’s ability to impose some standards, but that state and local funding or subsidies should trigger labor requirements.
Employer and business representatives described major losses to property, inventory, revenue, and jobs, especially in Altadena and nearby areas. The Altadena Chamber said it is coordinating recovery resources, while a construction business owner said small local firms are being shut out of disaster contracts and proposed a more accessible procurement process for local and minority businesses. LAEDC presented preliminary estimates of billions in property damage and business disruption, tens of thousands of potential job losses, and a recovery timeline of five to ten years, warning that low-income communities will be disproportionately affected and that workforce retraining and upskilling will be needed alongside the broader economic recovery.
HI
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- and grant recipients.
- The preliminary injunction was granted. It was granted on three grounds.
- The preliminary injunction was granted. It was granted on three grounds.
- </c> The preliminary injunction was granted. The preliminary injunction was granted.
- delays in approving new grants.
Summary:
The Judiciary Committee held an informational briefing on the State of Hawaii’s affirmative litigation against the federal administration, with no public testimony. Attorney General Lopez and deputies said the office’s goal is to enforce the rule of law, not make partisan points, and noted that Hawaii is involved in 27 ongoing cases. They grouped the cases into four broad areas: immigration, funding freezes and grant terminations, federal agency dismantling/reductions in force, and protecting elections, health, and safety.
Several immigration-related cases were discussed in detail. These included a challenge to the federal sharing of Medicaid data with DHS for immigration enforcement, a similar challenge to USDA’s demand for SNAP applicant and recipient data, and litigation over immigration-enforcement conditions attached to federal grants. The office also described the birthright citizenship executive order, saying it conflicts with the 14th Amendment and Supreme Court precedent; lower courts granted preliminary relief, and the U.S. Supreme Court later addressed only the scope of nationwide injunctions, not the merits. In the Department of Transportation case, the court granted a preliminary injunction against the “Duffy directive,” finding the immigration conditions lacked statutory authority, were arbitrary and capricious, and violated the Spending Clause and APA.
The briefing also covered multiple funding disputes. In the education funding freeze case, the Department of Education and OMB withheld about $6 billion in formula funds, including roughly $33 million for Hawaii; after suit was filed, the funds were released. Other cases included the termination of over $11 billion in public health grants, which affected Hawaii Department of Health grants, the NIH indirect cost cap case, and NIH grant terminations tied to DEI, transgender issues, and vaccine hesitancy. The speakers said some cases have already resulted in preliminary or permanent injunctions, while others remain on appeal or are still being litigated.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee May 28th, 2025
Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, for grants, there can be grants that require state, tribal, local cost sharing.
- You know, plan, grant canceled.
- grant opportunities.
- DOH has received some federal communications counseling grants, however, the additional, additional federal
- More grants and helps generate oversight of the grant and compliance.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Public Safety Committee Meeting - 2025-04-02
Public Safety Finance and Policy
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- be back in the communities?
- , they need to feel connected to those communities.
- The Healthy Community Initiative's Crime Community Crime Intervention and Prevention Project works directly
- members to sustain safe communities.
- is a multi-million dollar grant agency.
Committee:
House Public Safety Finance and Policy
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- The bill also includes $300,000 for pilot grants to empower urban, rural, and tribal communities to conduct
- Members, this means that your local community could apply for a planning grant to become a local Mini
- could apply for a planning community could apply for a planning grant<01:09:13.600><c> to</c><01:09:
- Rationing<01:53:33.040><c> grants</c> Rationing grants Rationing grants by<01:53:34.440><c> whatever<
- </c> grant awards. grant awards.
Committee:
Senate Higher Education
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Water and Natural Resources Sep 11th, 2025
Water & Natural Resources Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Through Trails Plus New Mexico grants, they serve as a living example of how education, community health
- These are the grants that New Mexico State Parks solicits every year, and we encourage New Mexico communities
- to apply for this grant.
- The LWCF grant is sort of a shovel-ready type of grant.
- Our communities, Latina communities, our indigenous relatives, our black communities, Asian American
Committee:
House Water & Natural Resources Committee
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- We also made requests for our INI program, which is the infill infiltration to help give grants to communities
- We also made requests for our INI program, which is the infill infiltration to help give grants to communities
- We also made requests for our INI program, which is the infill infiltration to help give grants to communities
- </c><00:19:10.640><c> to</c> infiltration to help give grants to infiltration to help give grants to
- Why not just grant them?
Committee:
Senate Transportation
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 4 on State Administration and General Government May 7th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- We know that it's that binding agent for a connected community, and when that connected community starts
- It is actually created so that every community can speak to what makes their community special.
- I also want to mention that every grant maker's Achilles heel is the grant applicant's ability to tell
- These grants reach communities that often do not have access to other sources of funding, especially
- Partnerships and Strategic Communications, operational competitive grants to counties for ballot processing
MN
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- </c> of the state to the major land grant of the state to the major land grant University<00:19:47.760
- </c><00:30:56.320><c> etc</c> both and with faculty come grants etc both and with faculty come grants
- There are two project types for this grant program: the Improvement Grant, which is a maximum award of
- </c><01:09:28.839><c> Construction</c><01:09:29.359><c> grant</c> current Library Grant Construction
- grant current Library Grant Construction grant program<01:09:30.319><c> are</c><01:09:30.600><c> cities
Committee:
Senate Capital Investment
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Postsecondary Education & Workforce Jan 21st, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Who are those people who start college at community colleges?
- I am a recovering community college instructor and counselor.
- and they can now afford to save or invest in their community.
- For them to save or invest in their community.
- I'm a recent graduate of South Puget Sound Community College, and the Washington College Grant is the
Summary:
The committee held its first meeting and heard four bills. HB 2286 would create an alternative route to social worker licensure by removing the exam requirement for advanced social workers and allowing enhanced supervision with supervisor attestation in place of the exam for independent clinical social workers. The sponsor and several social workers testified that the exam is a poor measure of clinical competence and can be a barrier to licensure, while opponents warned that removing the exam could affect public protection and Washington’s participation in the social work compact. Members asked follow-up questions about the compact, the exam format, and accreditation requirements, but no action was taken.
HB 2363 would allow music therapy license applicants to practice under supervision for up to six months while waiting for exam verification. The sponsor described it as a technical fix to the new licensure system, and testimony from music therapists, educators, and a patient supported the bill as a way to avoid delays in hiring newly trained therapists while maintaining supervision and patient safety. The bill drew strong support in written testimony and no opposition in the hearing.
HB 2324 would change tuition waiver rules for children of eligible veterans and National Guard members by giving eligible children eight years from the date of a parent’s disability determination to use the waiver when that determination occurs after the child turns 18. The sponsor said the bill is meant to align state law with federal dependency education benefits and prevent families from losing access because disability determinations can take years. The committee asked for clarification on how the new timing would work, and the hearing closed without a vote.
HB 2098 would eliminate the cap on the advanced computing surcharge, expand Washington College Grant eligibility up to 100% of state median family income, and reduce resident undergraduate tuition by 10% for three years starting in 2027-28. Supporters, including students, labor, and advocacy groups, said the bill would improve affordability and access to higher education by asking large tech companies to pay more. Opponents from business and university groups argued the surcharge would be economically harmful, that the state already has substantial WEA funding, and that the bill would reduce tuition revenue without adequately backfilling institutional budgets. The committee heard extensive testimony and members raised questions about the surcharge cap, WEA spending, and the compacted funding structure, but no final action was taken.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Yet my community, like many of yours, is still an agrarian community.
- :56.160><c> community.
- </c> for our community. for our community.
- </c> the community input. the community input.
- </c> our communities. our communities.
Bills:
HF4156 , HF3835 , HF3995 , HF4383 , HF4091 , HF4084 , HF4311 , HF198 , HF4486 , HF4302 , HF4309 , HF4032 , HF3855 , HF3673 , HF4265 , HF4012 , HF4339 , HF4298 , HF3852
Committee:
House Capital Investment
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee Aug 1st, 2025
Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- Talking about a rescinded grant.
- That communication has ceased. So if they have staffing there, they're not communicating with us.
- that grant.
- Well, we have just received a new grant award notification for that same grant, and that language is
- and you read the purposes of those grants, those grants are really impacting the same students that
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Governmental Oversight and Accountability Apr 1st, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- AUGUST 2019 THE GOVERNOR LAUNCH THE GOVERNOR'S FAITH AND COMMUNITY INITIATIVE TO SUPPORT FAITH AND COMMUNITY
- WE ARE IN STRONG SUPPORT OF SBA 20 THE OFFICE OF FAITH COMMUNITY ACT.
- SUPPORTING VULNERABLE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
- IS THERE A NEW CRITERIA THAT IS PUT INTO DECIDING WHERE THE GRANTS GO?
- NEW APPOINTMENT FLORIDA COMMISSION ON COMMUNITY SERVICE.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 2/11/25
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> nether decrease or increase that Grant nether decrease or increase that Grant accordingly<00:20:
- </c><00:33:33.519><c> Based</c> standards for Home and Community Based standards for Home and Community
- </c><00:34:56.599><c> directed</c> waiver rate system Community directed waiver rate system Community
- </c><00:36:29.920><c> support</c> sections relating to community support sections relating to community
- School linked Behavioral Health Grants School linked Behavioral Health Grants<00:36:37.640><c> um</c
Committee:
House Human Services Finance and Policy