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WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

JLARC I-900 Subcommittee for SAO Performance Audits Jul 16th, 2025

JLARC I-900 Subcommittee for SAO Performance Audits

Transcript Highlights:
  • Incomplete forms and incorrect coding contributed to fines not being sent correctly.
  • sometimes lacked sufficient detail about fines, including the pertinent state law, the appropriate code
  • Without such information, clerks did not know how to correctly code fines in their financial systems,
  • and as a result, some revenues were incorrectly coded and sent to the wrong government.
  • relevant departments in King and Pierce County, we recommended they ensure their business processes, codes
Summary: The Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee I-900 Subcommittee heard JLARC’s annual update on the status of legislative implementation of State Auditor recommendations, followed by two State Auditor performance audits. JLARC staff reported that for the 2024 review period there were three new legislative recommendations and three unresolved older recommendations. They said the legislature did not convene a work group on civil asset forfeiture, and no formal action was taken on two water-use-efficiency recommendations. Two recommendations related to concurrent Medicaid enrollments were addressed in a bill introduced this session, but that bill was not adopted. The first audit examined how Washington can ensure climate-resilient electricity infrastructure. The State Auditor found the state has opportunities to better adapt new energy infrastructure by using more site-specific climate information, broader collaboration, and vulnerability assessments. The report recommended expanding climate analyses through the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group if funding is available, using forecasted information in DNR wildfire maps, designating a non-regulatory office to coordinate siting and conflict resolution, and expanding vulnerability assessments in Ecology and Commerce processes. Agency witnesses generally agreed resilience is important but emphasized existing efforts, the need to avoid duplicative requirements, the importance of affordability and efficiency, and the role of current forums such as the Clean Energy Siting Council and SEPA processes. The second audit reviewed fines for human trafficking and related sexual exploitation crimes. Auditors found courts assessed fines inconsistently, collection rates varied, some revenues were sent to the wrong local government, and some jurisdictions did not use the money as required for enforcement, prevention, or survivor services. The audit recommended courts work with prosecutors to improve awareness of mandatory fines, and that King and Pierce County improve coding, templates, and tracking so revenues are routed and used correctly. King County testified that it appreciated the audit and described its existing prevention and survivor-support work. The committee took no votes or formal actions and adjourned after the presentations and testimony.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • looking to basically bypass the requirement to auction these, which Chapter 263 of the local government code
  • Unfortunately, with our current code, residents have no protections or recourse from their county government
  • everybody's in support. of this, and we just need to, you know, kind of update the local government code
  • Current code right now has a process in place for counties over one and a half million, plus the two
  • House Bill 3355 amends the local government code in regards to the disposal of county surplus or salvage
Keywords: 1184, house, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 24th, 2025

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Motion moves amendment to House Bill 14; the amendment to the amendment is coded A7.
  • amend the Cosmic amendment as amended to House File Number 14, and the amendment to the amendment is coded
  • The amendment to the amendment is coded A6.
  • The amendment is coded A.
  • Not because the blue line is perfect, not because it's going to be built completely up to code or everything
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Ways and Means (01/07/2025)

Transcript Highlights:
  • found the tax code found the tax code complicated<03:22:02.840> uh<03:22:03.040> having
  • I think the more that we could sync our tax code with the IRS code would be something that would be always
  • I think the more that we could sync our tax code with the IRS code would be something that would be always
  • if we were to simplify that tax code if we were to simplify that tax code and<03:38:47.080> the
  • <03:43:42.800> is to make sure that the uh code is to make sure that the uh code is Equitable
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The meeting was an introductory Ways and Means Committee orientation led by Chair John Janigian. Members went around the room introducing themselves, with several returning legislators and several freshmen describing their backgrounds in business, education, public service, finance, transportation, journalism, military service, and nonprofit work. Janigian explained his own legislative history and professional background, and other members, including Bill Bolton, Fred Doucette, Mary Ford, Jim Tierney, Scott Brier, Thomas Oppel, Mary Murphy, Representative Spar, Susan Elberger, Dennis Malloy, Jordan Ulery, and Julius Soti, briefly described their prior experience and reasons for serving on the committee. The chair then outlined the committee’s role. He said Ways and Means is responsible for revenue estimates that Finance will use to determine how much the state can spend over the next biennium, and that the committee would spend the next five to six weeks developing its best revenue estimate, due around February 15. He also explained that the committee hears from state agencies and departments about how taxes are created, collected, and performing against expectations, and that it reviews bills affecting state revenue, including tax increases, tax decreases, tax removals, and fee-related measures. Janigian noted that the committee had five bills at the time of the meeting and expected more to be referred. He explained that most would be first-committee bills, though some second-committee bills could come over if they involved taxes or fees after passing policy committees. He used marijuana-related legislation as an example of a bill that might first go to another committee and later reach Ways and Means if it had fiscal implications. No votes were taken; the meeting was informational, and members were told how to participate in hearings and follow-up questions during regular committee work.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • Established in the California Unemployment Insurance Code, the California Workforce Development Board
  • The department is also proposing to amend the Labor Code via the trailer bill process.
  • We are proposing the annual Labor We are proposing the annual Labor Code 62.5 employer assessment require
  • To correct this issue, we are proposing to remove this from Government Code 11553 and instead establish
  • the position similar to the chiefs of Cal/OSHA and the Labor Commissioner's Office in the Labor Code
Keywords: 988, house, all
Summary: The subcommittee held a May Revision budget hearing on state administration and related issues, hearing presentations from multiple departments and agencies. Early items included the Public Employment Relations Board on funding for implementation of AB 1 and a reduced request tied to AB 288, the Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement on a technical College Corps adjustment, and the Secretary of State on building security upgrades, election security grant matching funds, and payroll system readiness costs. The Department of Consumer Affairs presented a Board of Pharmacy modernization request and a General Fund backfill for the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education; the LAO raised no concerns on the pharmacy item but recommended rejecting the private postsecondary backfill and questioned interest-free loan language. The Employment Development Department outlined several large workload and benefit adjustments, including EDD Next document management funding, UI loan interest, DI/PFL benefit increases, WIOA adjustments, school employee benefits, an EMT training reappropriation, and a technical reversion correction; the LAO flagged the size of the DI/PFL increase and the expansion of the document management scope, while members asked about program impacts and timelines. The California Workforce Development Board presented an April adjustment to reimbursement authority for an interagency agreement with Caltrans, which the LAO said raised no concerns. Public comment on that item and others included support for workforce and apprenticeship initiatives, including the Jails to Jobs proposal and renewal of the Apprenticeship Innovation Fund, though those were not part of the May Revision package. The Department of Industrial Relations then presented several proposals: reclassifying legal positions, continuing modernization of the workers’ compensation EAMS system, Cal/OSHA data modernization, creating a Cal/OSHA emerging technologies unit, reappropriating funds for the California Opportunity Youth Apprenticeship program, and trailer bill changes requiring electronic payment of employer assessments and adjusting the statutory treatment of the workers’ compensation administrative director’s salary. The LAO generally found the IT and salary proposals reasonable but urged close monitoring of the new emerging technologies unit. Committee members, especially Assemblymember Ortega, pressed DIR on long vacancy rates, wage theft claim delays, low collection rates for Cal/OSHA fines, and whether new resources would improve outcomes; DIR said it was pursuing recruitment, classification reviews, and process modernization, while the LAO noted that staffing alone may not explain the delays. The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board also sought to make permanent a 2024 change to the 60-day reconsideration clock, saying it had reduced backlog and interim orders; the LAO had no concerns. Finally, the Department of Human Resources presented a statewide Employee Assistance Program contract consolidation that would lower costs compared with renewing separate contracts and requested one program manager position to oversee the contract and first responder services; the hearing continued with Finance’s response after the transcript ended.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • Established in the California Unemployment Insurance Code, the California Workforce Development Board
  • The department is also proposing to amend the Labor Code via the trailer bill process.
  • We are proposing that the annual Labor Code 62.5 employer assessment require payment through electronic
  • To correct this issue, we are proposing to remove this from Government Code Section 11553 and instead
  • Labor Code Section 5909 requires the Appeals Board to act on a petition for reconsideration of a decision
Summary: The Assembly Budget Subcommittee 5 on State Administration held a May Revise hearing focused on state administration proposals, with the chair noting no actions would be taken and all items would remain open. The committee heard presentations on a range of budget proposals, including technical adjustments for the Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement and the California Workforce Development Board, security and election-related funding for the Secretary of State, modernization and loan-backfill requests for the Department of Consumer Affairs, and multiple Employment Development Department updates covering EDD Next, UI and DI/PFL benefit estimates, workforce funding, and an EMT training reappropriation. Several items drew discussion from the LAO and committee members. The LAO generally supported technical or modernization items such as PERB’s implementation requests, GoServe’s College Corps adjustment, the Secretary of State’s security and HAVA grant items, and the Board of Pharmacy modernization proposal, but raised concerns about the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education’s proposed $10 million General Fund backfill and interest-free loan language. For EDD, the LAO flagged the size of the DI/PFL benefit adjustment and the unusual structure of the document management system proposal within EDD Next, while EDD said the changes reflected higher participation and benefit levels after SB 951 and ongoing modernization needs. The Department of Industrial Relations drew the most extensive questioning. It proposed funding for legal unit reclassifications, EAMS and Cal/OSHA data modernization, a new Cal/OSHA emerging technologies unit, a COYA reappropriation, and trailer bill changes requiring electronic payment of employer assessments and adjusting the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board timeline. Members pressed DIR on high vacancy rates, long wage theft and workers’ compensation backlogs, low collection rates for fines, and the need for clearer workload and outcome measures. DIR said the requests were intended to improve efficiency, support audits and corrective action plans, and better address emerging workplace risks, while the LAO said the workload drivers behind delays remain unclear. The hearing also included support for CalHR’s employee assistance program consolidation and CDT’s proposal to expand “Poppy,” a statewide generative AI assistant for state employees.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
  • It does include their birth date, their zip code, and their town.
  • , their zip code and their town.<00:19:07.960> That's<00:19:08.679> that's<00:19:08.960
  • So, what information is contained in the data is a person's sex, the five-digit zip code at which they
  • 00:24:20.920> the<00:24:21.240> five-digit<00:24:22.000> zip<00:24:22.200> code
  • at which they um the five-digit zip code at which they reside,<00:24:24.440> um<00:24:24.960>
Keywords: 919, house, all
Summary: The committee took up House File 4466, the Health Finance and Policy bill, and first adopted the A8 amendment, described as a set of technical fixes. Members then considered a large A9 amendment that bundled a wide range of Children and Families provisions, including child care licensing modernization, crisis nursery licensing, SNAP/MFIT-related language, child care provider self-reporting, a physical abuse recognition poster, child protection and welfare provisions, funding for parent support outreach, and forensic interview training scholarships. Supporters described it as bipartisan work with relatively small fiscal impact, while opponents said it greatly expanded the bill and should be handled separately; after a roll call, the A9 amendment failed 7-14. Representative Scott then offered the A11 amendment, raising concerns about new all-payer claims database language and whether it should have been heard in the Judiciary and Civil Law Committee. Department of Health staff explained the data-sharing safeguards, de-identification process, fee structure, and enforcement provisions, but Scott remained concerned about privacy and the scope of the program and withdrew the amendment. The committee then moved to final bill discussion. Members and authors described HF 4466 as a lean health finance bill largely conforming Minnesota law to federal HR1 Medicaid-related changes, including work requirements, retroactive eligibility limits, cost-sharing, and home equity provisions. Supporters argued conformity was necessary to avoid major federal funding losses and noted a few additional member bills in the package; opponents criticized the federal changes as harmful, especially for vulnerable populations such as victims of trafficking and domestic violence. Fiscal staff said the bill would save just over $2 million in FY 2026-27 and almost $98 million in FY 2028-29. No final vote on the bill itself was taken in the portion provided.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Omnibus tax finance and policy bill, HF9, passed in Minnesota House 6/9/25

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The amendment is coded A25-000098.
  • <00:32:22.559> as view tax bills and view the tax code as view tax bills and view the tax
  • code as the<00:32:22.960> place<00:32:23.120> to<00:32:23.279> give<00:32:23.440
  • There's another way to think about a tax code: that it can be an expression of our values and a way to
  • So, you know, minimizing giveaways in the tax code and protecting the tax base and not eroding it with
Keywords: 1183, house
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Apr 2nd, 2025

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • may be an outdated drainage system, infrastructure weakness, or something wrong with the building code
  • and zoning code and building code and all those challenges.
  • heavily reliant on this funding, but often don't have their approvals in time because of the fire code
  • and zoning code and building code and all those challenges.
  • Senators, that's bar code 651904 by Senator Kalad...
Summary: The Appropriations Committee heard presentations on the Senate’s proposed 2025-2026 budget, SPB 25-200, totaling $117.4 billion. Chair Hooper and committee chairs highlighted major spending priorities including a 4% raise for state employees, continued health insurance contributions, investments in water quality, transportation, education infrastructure, and workforce development, along with reductions tied to long-vacant positions. Education funding was a major focus, with increases for K-12 public schools and scholarships, higher education workforce programs, nursing initiatives, tutoring, and university performance funding. Health and human services, criminal and civil justice, transportation/economic development, and agriculture/environment budgets were also outlined, including Medicaid, mental health, corrections staffing, affordable housing, beach restoration, citrus recovery, and water projects. Members then questioned several budget choices, especially K-12 funding. Senators Polsky and Smith raised concerns that the Senate’s AP and dual enrollment funding changes could disadvantage public schools, while Burgess argued the budget preserves the money in the FEFP and gives districts more flexibility rather than reducing support. Questions also addressed voucher availability, school stabilization funding, and the My Safe Florida Home program. The committee adopted 171 consent amendments and three late-file amendments, then approved SPB 2500 as a committee bill. It also favorably reported implementing and conforming bills for state employees, retirement, natural resources, judgeships, K-12 education, higher education, and health and human services, along with SB 7022 on Florida Retirement System contribution rates and elected-officer DROP options, CS/SB 1320 on the Resilient Florida Trust Fund, SB 7014 ending the Mediation and Arbitration Trust Fund, SB 7028 on cancer research, CS/CS/SB 170 on nursing home quality and oversight, CS/SB 168 on mental health diversion and behavioral health data, SB 114 creating an insurance and risk management research center at FSU, and SB 180 on emergency preparedness and post-storm recovery. Most bills were reported favorably with little or no opposition, though SB 180 drew discussion about local-government authority after storms and the need to balance recovery speed with local safety and planning concerns.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Municipal and County Government (03/04/2025)

Municipal and County Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:23:47.400> any<00:23:47.640> safety<00:23:48.240> safety<00:23:49.000> codes
  • <00:23:50.000> and exempt from any safety safety codes and exempt from any safety safety codes
  • take a three- or four-unit building, they still want to be treated like a single-family, and it’s a code
  • a<00:24:35.159> difference<00:24:36.120> um<00:24:36.799> the it's there codes
  • a difference um the it's there codes a difference um the sorry<00:24:38.000> the<00:24:38.279
Keywords: 1189, house, all
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Insurance Committee Feb 19th, 2025

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • If you see line 27 on page one, it's the section code 40-18 that...
  • It's the section code 40-18 that has a comma after 18, which is supposed to be a dash.
  • It's a technical revision that just takes some code sections that are cross-referenced in the wrong place
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Mar 6th, 2025

Alabama House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • of resistant the definition and the code of resistant the definition and the code of resistant arrest
  • and and actually the sub different code and and actually the sub different code and and actually the
  • section USC and it goes into the code section USC and it goes into the code section well you probably
  • and it's section 3288 4 existing code and it's section 3288 4 existing code and it's section 3288 4
  • section with me I didn't anticipate code section with me I didn't anticipate code section with me I
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Omnibus budget for health, children and families passes House floor 5/12/25

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The amendment is coded A23.
  • amendment is coded A23. amendment is coded A23.
  • amendment to the amendment is coded A33. amendment to the amendment is coded A33.
  • The amendment is coded A9.
  • The amendment is coded<00:21:16.640> A9. coded A9. coded A9.
Keywords: 1183, house
VA
Transcript Highlights:
  • would love to continue in that role, because I like to chair all the things, but according to the Code
  • would love to continue in that role, because I'd like to chair all the things, but according to the Code
  • just a name change, but it has a number of consequences and a whole lot of changes throughout the code
  • It's written that way in the code, but I don't know that we have, you know, a state-level citizenship
  • Some of the state definitions apply only to certain sections within their code.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/09/2026 - House Public Safety & Law Enforcement

Public Safety & Law Enforcement

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chair, Representative Gillette, the term cartel I don't know is defined in Arizona Code, and I don't
  • know quite what the purpose of defining it in Arizona Code would be.
  • Chair, Representative Gillette, the term cartel I don't know is defined in Arizona Code, and I don't
  • know quite what the purpose of defining it in Arizona Code would be.
  • are clearly not part of a cartel by any common-sense definition should not be understood in Arizona Code
Bills: HB2665, HB2904, HB2917
Summary: The House Committee on Public Safety and Law Enforcement heard three bills. HB 2665, named Cade’s Law, would expand Arizona’s manslaughter statute to cover intentionally directed communications—verbal, written, or electronic—that encourage a minor to die by suicide, while excluding general public commentary and non-directed discussion of suicide or mental health. The sponsor and several parents and suicide-prevention advocates testified in support, emphasizing teen suicide risks and the need to address online communication. Some members raised concerns about ambiguity, peer-to-peer counseling, and whether minors could be swept into the statute. After a verbal amendment clarifying the communication language, the bill passed 10-4 with several members voting present due to drafting concerns. HB 2904 declared fentanyl trafficking across the Arizona-Mexico border a public health crisis and directed state health officials to act within their authority. The sponsor argued the bill was needed to combat cartels and protect Arizona from fentanyl-related deaths. The ACLU of Arizona opposed it, saying the bill used vague and unprecedented terms such as “unlawful invasion,” could sweep in asylum seekers or low-level drug offenders, and might affect bail and sentencing. After a contentious debate over border security, sovereignty, and the bill’s definitions, the committee gave HB 2904 a do pass recommendation by an 8-6 vote. HB 2917 would create a firefighter cancer registry at the Department of Health Services to collect and analyze data on cancer among Arizona firefighters. Firefighter representatives supported the measure as a way to better understand occupational exposure and improve prevention, but members questioned whether the bill’s reporting requirements were truly voluntary, since the draft appeared to require participation and provider reporting of medical information. The sponsor and supporters said the intent was not to mandate disclosure and were open to amendments to clarify consent and privacy. The committee approved the bill 12-1, with one present vote and one absence, while noting that cleanup amendments would be needed before floor consideration.
WA
Transcript Highlights:
  • charges, and compensation fees; patient discharge information such as race, ethnicity, and diagnosis codes
  • ; charity care information related to policies; ...ethnicity, and diagnosis codes; charity care information
  • We used formal code reviews performed by a data services team that's independent of DBA to make sure
  • that those codes that were pulling the data.
  • And we have built and code reviewed a library of reports to ensure that the data referenced is accurate
Summary: At the May 14, 2025 JLARC meeting, members approved the January 9 minutes and adopted the 2025–27 biennial work plan with a minor typo correction. Staff reviewed the new work plan studies, including a drug take-back program fee/expenditure review due in December 2025 and a state energy performance standard compliance review due in June 2027, and noted JLARC’s recent session activity, including several bills passed related to JLARC work and recommendations. The committee then heard a preliminary cannabis market study showing Washington businesses likely produced two to three times more cannabis than retailers sold in 2023. Staff and RAND said LCB’s data systems are incomplete and unreliable, limiting regulation, tax verification, and diversion tracking; they recommended that LCB submit a plan by year-end for collecting accurate data by the end of 2026. Members and LCB discussed the long timeline for a new traceability system, the causes of missing sales and weight data, overproduction, diversion, and the social equity program’s effect on producer licenses. JLARC also presented a preliminary hospital oversight report concluding that the Department of Health is late on many hospital inspections, does not verify third-party inspection standards, does not review adverse health event correction plans, and could make hospital data more accessible. The committee discussed fee funding, language access, and inspection timing, and DOH said it would work on a strategic plan and continue coordinating with JLARC. Members also heard a preliminary report on the public records survivor exemption, which found agencies are using it but need more guidance; JLARC recommended keeping the exemption and having the Attorney General provide additional training. Finally, the committee approved the DDA processes and staffing final report for distribution, which recommended performance metrics, stronger data quality controls, and workforce planning; DDA concurred. JLARC also introduced proposed study questions for a future DCYF juvenile rehabilitation review focused on safety, security, programs, staffing, education, and contraband, and the meeting adjourned after members asked about scope and facility conditions.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
  • Code 4, 0, 0, 6, 9, 2, Thank you, Mr.
  • We do have a late filed amendment to the Amendment bar code 1, 8, 1, 4, 3, 6, by Senator Smith.
  • resources will be moved away from the schools that are guaranteed to serve every student every zip code
  • What's the process for a parent to be involved in the development approval of the of the student Code
  • So with this legislation, it would allow for charter school governing boards to adopt its own Code of
Keywords: 999, senate, all
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • consequences by enhancing public safety around fuel transportation. and ensuring compliance with the tax code
  • You know, for us, we've always taken the position as the permit states in the Texas Administrative Code
  • But overarching all of this are the general requirements under Chapter 26 of the Texas Water Code, and
  • Under Subchapter G of the Texas Water Code, under the Oil and Hazardous Substances Bill Prevention and
  • They've provided bills of lading with QR codes so that roadside DPS can scan that QR code to make sure
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health Apr 3rd, 2025

S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, my zip code of birth is 76104.
  • If you're not aware of that particular zip code, it is the zip code with the lowest life expectancy in
  • Texas Family Code, Title 5, Section 161, and 261 are still binding.
  • One, and I need to go read the family code reference that you just said that the protections are still
  • So that's Texas Code Title 5 Section 261.001, and I. Get you a copy of that as well.
Bills: HB46
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

Criminal Justice Apr 1st, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • Will hear Amendment bar code 2, 5, 6, 3, 4, 4, You're recognized to explain the strike.
  • All it's Amendment bar code 5, 4, to 6 to 8. You're recognized to explain. >> Thank you, Mr.
  • Take that up as another bar code 6, 6, 8, 92. Thank you, chair.
  • to know what they're supposed to so they can treat that if necessary it up this criminal punishment code
  • Amendment bar code 3, 5, 1, 4, 6, 0, >> Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Keywords: 999, senate, all