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FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Appropriations Apr 2nd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- 9-9-0-3-7.
- Senators, the 3% employee contribution rate is not changed by this bill.
- Senators, the 3% employee contribution rate is not changed by this bill.
- Affirmative on Tab 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7. Tab 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11.
- Chair, yes, on Tabs 3 and 22. Senator Graal: Thank you.
Summary:
The Appropriations Committee met for Budget Day and heard presentations on the Senate’s proposed 2025-2026 budget, SPB 25-200, totaling $117.4 billion. Chair Hooper said the plan reduces overall spending from the prior year, keeps strong reserves, includes a 4% pay raise for state employees, maintains employee health care contributions, and makes major investments in water quality, transportation, and education infrastructure. Committee chairs then summarized their budget silos, including K-12 education, higher education, health and human services, criminal and civil justice, transportation/tourism/economic development, and agriculture/environment/general government. Members asked questions mainly about school funding, AP and dual enrollment support, voucher and scholarship impacts, and the My Safe Florida Home program.
The committee adopted a large consent package of amendments and then approved three late-file amendments: funding virtual college tours for high school students, funding the FSU Sunshine Genetics program, and providing money for the Port of Fernandina customs facility. The committee then voted to report SPB 2500, the General Appropriations Bill, as a committee bill. It also favorably reported SPB 2502 (implementing bill), SPB 2504 (state employees placeholder), SB 7022 (Florida Retirement System contribution rates and DROP changes), CS/SB 1320 (recreating the Resilient Florida Trust Fund), SPB 2506 (gaming compact revenue distributions, including water projects and rural lands), SPB 2508 (29 new judgeships), SB 7014 (ending the court mediation and arbitration trust fund), SPB 2510 (K-12 conforming bill), SPB 2512 (higher education conforming bill), and SPB 2514 (health and human services conforming bill).
The committee also took up several policy bills. It approved SB 7028 on cancer research, creating grant parameters, reporting requirements, a five-year pediatric cancer research incubator, and the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute VisionGen Initiative. It approved CS/CS/SB 170 on nursing home quality, adding resident satisfaction surveys, medical director standards, safety culture reviews, electronic health record requirements, financial reporting penalties, and a study of best practices. It approved CS/CS/SB 168, the Tristan Murphy Act, which expands mental health diversion options, adds Hillsborough County to a forensic hospital diversion pilot, expands grant uses, and creates a behavioral health data repository. It also approved SB 114 creating the Florida Center for Excellence in Insurance and Risk Management at FSU and moving the public hurricane loss model there. The committee then began considering SB 180 on emergency preparedness and response, including a late-file amendment, but the transcript cuts off before final action on that bill.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Ways & Means Feb 3rd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- For estimated expenditures, for Section 1 of the bill that directs WSAC to direct the funds received
- Today, I want to clarify two concerns in Section 3 relating to referrals and staffing. ...Today, I want
- to clarify two concerns in Section 3 relating to referrals and staffing.
- Democrats in Senate Hearing Room 3 and Republicans in ADC.
- Democrats in Senate Hearing Room 3 and Republicans in ADC.
Summary:
The Ways and Means Committee held public hearings on several bills before moving into executive session. Substitute Senate Bill 6037 would change how single-city fire protection districts are funded by ending the requirement that a city reduce its levy dollar-for-dollar and instead reducing the city’s statutory maximum rate; testimony was generally supportive from cities and firefighters, while public hospital districts opposed it over prorationing concerns and some witnesses sought amendments on governance and accountability. Senate Bill 6194 would allow cost-based Medicaid reimbursement for rural hospitals on federally recognized Indian reservations, with strong support from Toppenish/Astria representatives and the Yakama Nation, who said the bill is needed to address severe funding inequities and preserve services. Senate Bill 5963 would make Passport to Careers students automatically income-eligible for the Washington College Grant; it drew support from student advocates and foster-youth advocates, with staff noting modest estimated costs. Senate Bill 5909 would require public universities to review and report low-enrollment undergraduate programs and potentially discontinue them after repeated low enrollment; Eastern Washington University supported it as an accountability measure, while faculty and student representatives opposed it as unnecessary, costly, and potentially politicized. Senate Bill 5826 would require public postsecondary student health centers to provide access to medication abortion or referrals and related web information; testimony was sharply divided between supporters who framed it as needed student health access and opponents who raised moral, safety, and budget objections.
In executive session, staff briefed a series of bills, including measures on opioid treatment accreditation fees, a pre-K donation account, JLARC report elimination, retirement trust fund expense authority, pension lump-sum thresholds, port employee retirement exemptions, lemon law arbitration fees, LEAP website disclosures, limits on corporate ownership of single-family homes, a permanent senior center property tax exemption, timber tax distributions for school districts, capital project administration rules, and a real estate excise tax exemption for affordable housing. The committee then took action on the listed bills.
The committee voted to give due pass recommendations to the Rules Committee for Senate Bills 5872, 5879, 5834, 5835, 5905, 5832, 6177, 5496, 5970, 5994, 6047, and 5647. Amendments were adopted on SB 5834, SB 5905, SB 6047, and SB 5647 before those bills were advanced as substitutes. SB 5988 was noted as taking action later, but no vote on it was recorded in the transcript excerpt.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session-Day 18, March 3, 2026-PM
Wyoming House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- And I brought up Article 3, Section 20 of the Wyoming Constitution.
- Article 3, Section 20 says, as laws are to be passed by bill, alteration or amendment of bills, no law
- And again, Article 3, Section 20: change its original purpose.
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NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Revenue Stabilization and Tax Policy Aug 14th, 2025
Revenue Stabilization & Tax Policy Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- There are two provisions of the Internal Revenue Code that are important: Section 62 and Section 63.
- So it references the Internal Revenue Code Section 62.
- 63 or the itemized deductions in that section. 63 or the itemized deductions in that section.
- One of the things you see here is this income under Section 951.
- Then, on the next page, we've got the deduction in Section 168(k) and Section 664(c); these create.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- February 3, 2026, Mr.
- February 3, 2026, Mr.
- Amending Section 19-501, Idaho Code, to revise legislative findings; amending Section 19-50502, Idaho
- On page one, section two, that is the part that impacts business.
- That's what that section does.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- House Bill 243, an act amending section 13-1105, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to homicide.
- Vice Chair, I should say, on Section 13-3603.03, relating to family offenses.
- Majority Leader, Calendar 3. Mr.
- , by adding Section 28-711 and amending Sections 28-311, 28-3318, 28-1351, 28-4848, and 28-4800, Arizona
- Section 32-3030, relating to health professionals.
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- There are five testimonies broken up into five sections, so we'll go section by section. ...testifiers
- There are five testimonies broken up into five sections, so we'll go section by section, and Senator
- We also support the $3 million allocation for the right to counsel program.
- That concludes that section of the testimony.
- That's about a $3 million investment.
Bills:
SB6003
Committee:
Senate Ways & Means
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Ways & Means Jan 12th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- There are five testimonies broken up into five sections, so we'll go section by section. ...testifiers
- There are five testimonies broken up into five sections, so we'll go section by section, and Senator
- We also support the $3 million allocation for the right to counsel program.
- That concludes that section of the testimony.
- That's about a $3 million investment.
Summary:
The Ways and Means Committee held its first meeting of the 2026 session to hear Governor Ferguson’s proposed supplemental capital budget from OFM. Budget staff said the proposal uses nearly all of the roughly $400 million in available bond capacity, leaving about $5.4 million unused, and includes additional funding from the Common School Construction account, the Climate Commitment Account, and federal funds. OFM described housing as the largest priority, with $237 million total, including $225 million for the Housing Trust Fund for affordable rental housing, homeownership, preservation, and manufactured home community acquisition; it also highlighted urgent state facility needs, climate and clean energy investments, natural resource projects, and education funding for school seismic safety, small district and tribal compact school modernization, lead pipe remediation, and higher education preservation projects.
Committee members asked about the timing of housing production, and OFM said the proposed supplemental projects would not be completed within the biennium. Public testimony in the housing section strongly supported the governor’s housing investments, especially the Housing Trust Fund, manufactured housing preservation, and homeownership programs, while several speakers asked for larger appropriations for workforce housing, community land trusts, right-to-counsel, and specific local projects such as Thrive Center Tacoma, Alliance Place, Casa Mia, and Native and immigrant community facilities. One testifier criticized overall state tax policy, but the chair clarified that the capital budget is bonded and does not directly raise taxes.
Testimony on K-12 education generally supported the proposed funding for small school modernization, seismic safety, and Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools lead remediation, with rural districts emphasizing the importance of planning and construction grants for aging facilities. Higher education witnesses supported preservation and deferred maintenance funding but asked for additional support for projects at Cascadia College, WSU Spokane, UW’s decarbonization work, and other campus infrastructure needs. Natural resources testimony backed Salmon Recovery Funding Board and community forest investments, while asking for more funding for ranked RCO projects. In the final section, local governments and utilities opposed a proposed $75 million transfer from the Public Works Assistance account to the operating budget, warning it would reduce infrastructure lending capacity; other speakers supported the Washington State Green Bank, public works financing, and several local economic development and utility projects. No votes or formal committee action were taken at the meeting.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- To provide additional leadership training opportunities to all MAP regions in Minnesota. 3.
- So sections one through three simply move the voluntary paraprofessional credential.
- Section 5 is also just technical cleanup to remove some outdated redundant language.
- So the final section. Does a couple of key things.
- It is great for someone, a single mom like me, to be able to obtain my Tier 3 license. Thank you.
Committee:
House Education Finance
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 4/3/25
Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- So section two and section three would be deleted in the amendment.
- two and section bill uh so uh section two and section three<00:53:20.880><c> would</c><00:53:21.119>
- So this oral amendment for deleting sections 2 and 3 is incorporated into the A1 amendment.
- Previous to that, it was 3 point something between 3 and 3.2 million.
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MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Special Committee on Tax Reform Apr 2nd, 2026
Special Committee on Tax Reform
Transcript Highlights:
- That's found in Article 10, Section 6A of the Constitution.
- That's found in Article 10, Section 6A of the Constitution.
- And so the 3% is actually a, or the up to 3%. I mean, if we wanted to do 2, we could do that.
- You have the additional 3% growth continuing to compound, and all we're drawing down is 3%.
- So that 3% would have to equal that total liability that you're... 3%.
Committee:
House Special Committee on Tax Reform
Summary:
The committee first heard House Bill 2923, which would give homeowners a temporary property tax exemption of up to four years on qualifying home improvements between $7,500 and $75,000, so long as the property is the owner’s homestead and the required intent and completion forms are filed. The sponsor said the bill is meant to encourage reinvestment in homes, including after catastrophic events, and said the fiscal note showed no impact. Members asked about the bill’s effect on assessors, taxing districts, school districts, the definition of homestead, and whether the state would reimburse lost revenue. Testimony in support argued the bill would reduce ambiguity in new-construction assessments, encourage repairs and improvements, and help homeowners avoid being penalized for fixing damaged homes. Concerns were raised about routine maintenance, the four-dwelling language, possible burdens on assessors, and whether the bill could affect senior tax freezes. The hearing on HB 2923 ended without a vote.
The committee then went into executive session on House Bill 3256, adopted a committee substitute, and voted the substitute do pass by a roll call of five yes and one no. Discussion focused on criminal penalties in the bill, with the ranking member objecting to those provisions and noting that other states do not include them. The sponsor explained changes in the substitute, including broader retail-establishment language, explicit coverage of sports venues and concert halls, and removal of banks and credit unions from the bill. Members suggested further floor amendments and additional review of other states’ statutes.
Finally, the committee heard Senate Joint Resolution 95, which would create the Show Me Prosperity Fund as a constitutional endowment intended to eventually replace all state-imposed taxes with investment earnings. The senator said the fund would be seeded by a one-time appropriation, managed by the treasurer, audited by the auditor, and protected from borrowing or diversion, with distributions capped at 3 percent. Supporters said the proposal would use compound growth to create long-term tax relief and eventually make Missouri the first state to eliminate state taxes; one witness called it straightforward and honest. Members questioned the size of the needed appropriation, how the fund would work if state income tax changes separately, whether state law allows the needed investments, and how the fund would avoid becoming unstable if distributions begin before it is large enough. No opposition testimony was offered, and the hearing concluded without action on SJR 95.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Select Committee on School Facilities, May 19, 2026 - AM
Select Committee on School Facilities
Transcript Highlights:
- You know, we did have our section rules and regs, chapter 3, section 8, that was put in a few years ago
- rules and regs we did have our section rules and regs chapter<01:40:02.600><c> 3</c><01:40:03.040><c
- > section</c><01:40:03.640><c> 8</c> chapter 3 section 8 chapter 3 section 8 that<01:40:05.680><c> was
- Chapter 3, section 8 hasn't worked very well, didn't work very well.
- /c><01:41:36.560><c> section</c><01:41:37.240><c> 8</c> comments is that our the 3 section 8 comments
Committee:
Joint Select Committee on School Facilities
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session Mar 6th, 2026 at 04:30 pm
Washington House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Section 3, this act takes effect January 1, 2028. There are no amendments.
- Sub four, this section expires November 1, 2026.
- This amendment strikes the intent section.
- This amendment strikes the intent section.
- There's a lot of incorrect characterizations in the intent section.
Bills:
HB2720 , HB2073 , HB2487 , SB5816 , SB5919 , SB5831 , SB6137 , SB6244 , SB6044 , SB6132 , SB5109 , SB5877 , SB6258 , HB2720 , HB2073 , HB2487 , SB5816 , SB5919 , SB5831 , SB6137 , SB6244 , SB5420 , SB5868 , SB6044 , SB6132 , SJM8002
Keywords:
behavioral health, emergency services, health insurance, provider access, mental health funding, premium assistance, funding, healthcare, subsidies, insurance tax, state regulation, insurers, taxation, budget impact, juice grapes, agriculture, commerce, market access, fire safety, insurance incentives
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- House Bill 282: An act amending section 36-121, Arizona Revised Statutes, by amending section 36-121.1
- section 36-82, relating to ionizing radiation.
- section 36-82, relating to ionizing radiation.
- House Bill 2253: An act amending section 38-1106, Arizona Revised Statutes, and adding section 2, relating
- House Bill 2253: An act amending section 38-1106, Arizona Revised Statutes, and adding section 2, relating
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- What about for 3? We have one for 3? Okay. Chairman Bacala, HB 3?
- I move to report House Bill 3 favorably. No amendments on House Bill 3. Okay. I see no objection.
- Okay, we'll move on to H.C.R. 3. All right. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
- H.C.R. 3 is a hospital stabilization resolution. H.C.R. 3 is a hospital stabilization resolution.
- It’ll be reported with amendments as HCR 3. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. No technical changes on HCR 3?
Committee:
Senate Finance
Summary:
Senate Finance met on May 21, 2026, with nine members present. The committee first recognized Mother Pearl Porter during a personal privilege presentation by Senator Boudreaux. It then took up the major budget measures for fiscal year 2026-27, beginning with HB 1, the general appropriation bill. The committee heard that the state budget was about $46.6 billion and that recent Revenue Estimating Conference revisions required reductions in recurring spending. Amendments removed new funding for GATOR and increased MFP amounts, while also directing Revenue Stabilization Fund dollars toward infrastructure, economic development, and local government needs. The committee adopted amendment set 4238 and reported HB 1 as amended, with authority for technical changes.
The committee next considered HB 312, the supplemental appropriations bill for the current fiscal year. Members were told the amendments balanced the budget to the May REC forecast through a net reduction in state general fund spending, including savings in Medicaid and other agencies, while covering updated costs such as medical vendor administration, DCFS operations, DOC offender medical expenses, and disaster-related costs. Amendment set 4239 was adopted, and HB 312 was reported favorably as amended. HB 2, the capital outlay/infrastructure bill, was then amended with set 4230 and reported as amended. HB 3, the omnibus bond act authorizing bond usage for HB 2, had no amendments and was reported favorably.
The committee also advanced HB 313, the funds bill, which includes the constitutionally required deposit of $144.3 million of FY 2025 surplus into the Budget Stabilization Fund and various transfers and fund adjustments. Amendments expanded or created several funds and mechanisms, including infrastructure and economic development-related funds, and HB 313 was reported favorably as amended. HB 314, the revenue sharing bill distributing the constitutionally mandated $90 million to local governments, was reported favorably without amendment. HB 383, the ancillary appropriations bill for fee-supported agencies, received amendment 3138 and was reported favorably as amended. HB 983, funding the judiciary, was amended to remove judicial pay adjustments and instead fund a possible transfer of the integrated criminal justice information system to the Supreme Court if SB 141 becomes law; it was reported favorably as amended. HB 1126, the legislative branch appropriations bill, was amended and reported favorably as amended. Finally, HCR 3, the hospital stabilization resolution used to support Medicaid hospital reimbursements, was amended to give LDH more flexibility on the timing of directed payments and preprint submissions, then reported as amended. The committee adjourned after a motion to do so.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day Forty - Tuesday, March 24
Missouri House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- in Section 2195.
- Discussion on House Amendment 3.
- Further discussion on House Amendment 3.
- Representative from Pulaski: Part 3, yes. The newly added Part 3?
- It decreases a hefty $19.335 million line item in section 12.245, line 3, by a very small and modest
Summary:
The House convened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, approved the previous day’s journal by a 126-0 vote, and suspended business for the Speaker to sign several bills and substitutes. Members then spent much of the day introducing guests, including county assessors, students, civic groups, and visitors from local schools and universities.
The chamber then took up House Bill 2002, the elementary and secondary education budget. Members adopted several amendments, including technical fixes to allow board-operated schools to use personal service funds for career ladder payments, clarifications to child care subsidy language, and changes to Parents as Teachers rules so that enrollment remains voluntary and virtual visits are not reimbursable. An amendment to shift $1 million from one child care facilities line to Child Care Works passed, as did an amendment to fund a new Success-Ready Student Assessment with $2 million to help replace the MAP test. A proposal to pay child care subsidies for foster children based on enrollment rather than attendance failed 53-93, and an amendment to divert $10 million in Title I funds into a competitive grant program also failed. A later amendment to send budget reports to the ranking minority member passed, while an attempt to remove child care subsidy language from the bill failed.
The House then moved to higher education and workforce development appropriations. Members approved an amendment broadening a pre-apprenticeship program statewide and supported funding for Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries through a transfer from dual credit scholarship funds. The most extensive debate centered on House Bill 2003’s higher education funding model, where the chair defended an FTE-based approach as more transparent than the long-standing status quo, while opponents warned it would sharply cut funding for institutions such as Harris-Stowe, Lincoln, Truman State, and some community colleges, and would ignore factors like graduation rates, research, and workforce needs. A compromise amendment to soften the transition was withdrawn, and a separate amendment to restore the governor’s recommendation was also debated at length, with members arguing over the fairness and consequences of the proposed model.
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- a bicycle or rider of a bicycle typically apply to an e-bike and an e-bike rider, except that Class 3
- Many of them are marketed as e-bikes but don't really fit into the requirements of Class 1, 2, or 3.
- Section 4 of this bill directs the Department of Licensing to convene a work group, partially focused
- There is a proposed substitute. ...remove TIB's remaining bond authority and repeal obsolete sections
- There is a proposed substitute. remove Tibbs remaining bond authority and repeal obsolete sections.
Committee:
House Transportation
Keywords:
commute trip reduction, definitions, transportation, environmental impact, urban planning, electric bicycles, electric motorcycles, regulation, vehicle classification, tolling, emergency suspension, public access, state highways, transportation improvement board, TIB, transportation improvement account, motor vehicle fund, arterial streets, local match, private match
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Banking and Insurance Mar 10th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- the Amendment bar code on this amendment that we are currently taking up is Amendment bar code 5, 7, 3,
- Barcode 5, 7, 3, 8, 0, 0, wave closed. All right.
- Having waived close senators all in favor of adopting Amendment Barcode. 5, 7, 3, 8, 0, 0, signify by
- It changes some section of 6.27, and it has a provision to 6 Chapter 6.41. which applies to over payment
- You are recognized to introduce Amendment Barcode. 7, 3, 7, 1, 5, 3, 6, 3, 7, 1, 5, 3, 6, >> Thank you
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Banking and Finance Committee Apr 21st, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Now they're often 3% or more of the transaction amount.
- I mean, I think it's like $3. That's been the same, or $2.50 or $3, at least the banks I use.
- The next item on the agenda is file item 3, AB 1365, Assembly Member Garcia.
- Section 5 ends that uncertainty.
- We are concerned that the way As it turns out, is Section 5 of the bill.
Summary:
The Assembly Banking and Finance Committee heard several bills, beginning with AB 407, which would expand the California Pollution Control Financing Authority. The author said the measure would increase flexibility and access to resources, and the bill was approved 7-0 and sent to the Committee on Local Government. The committee also adopted the consent calendar, which included AB 76, by a 7-0 vote.
A lengthy portion of the meeting focused on AB 1065, which would prohibit swipe fees on the sales tax portion of credit card transactions. Supporters, including small business owners, restaurant and grocery representatives, and a payments-policy expert, argued the bill would reduce costs for merchants and consumers and rein in dominant card networks. Opponents, including banks, credit unions, and payment industry groups, argued the bill is likely preempted by federal law, would be difficult to implement, and could disproportionately affect community banks and credit unions. After extensive questioning about preemption, fraud, implementation, and consumer impacts, the committee rejected the bill on a 6-0 vote, but then granted reconsideration by a 7-1 vote.
The committee then heard AB 1365, which would create the Cal Account Program, a zero-fee, zero-penalty state banking account for unbanked and underbanked Californians. Supporters said the program would help low-income households, survivors of abuse, and others facing barriers to traditional banking, while opponents from community banks and credit unions argued existing low-cost accounts and the Bank On program already address the need and raised concerns about cost, feasibility, and duplication. The bill advanced on a 6-0 vote and later received enough votes on the reopened roll to move forward to the Committee on Labor and Employment.
The committee also approved AB 1052, which would create a legal framework for digital assets and address unclaimed digital property and restrictions on public officials issuing or promoting digital assets, and AB 1180, which would create a pilot program for paying state fees with digital financial assets and require a report on broader adoption. Both bills passed with broad support after brief testimony and discussion. Final roll calls later confirmed AB 1052 and AB 1180, along with AB 407 and AB 1365, were moved out of committee.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Public School Capital Outlay Council Jul 16th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- But we're in calendar year 2025, quarter 3.
- Section 3, policies and procedures were added, where it included facility master planning requirements
- , including required sections and state charter schools, FMP requirements.
- Leach asked if staff could create a summary of the changes section by section, and I am so proud to support
- It was sent later I'm showing those revisions in a section by section. So Mr. Baldez and Mr.