Video & Transcript Research : 'budget deficit'

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NH
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Finance Division III (02/01/23)

KY
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Standing Committee BR Sub. on General Government (2-10-22)

WA
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Transportation Feb 24th, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • This was originally the Governor's budget request for the supplemental budget.
  • So the total budget is $17.5 billion.
  • That is a transfer from operating budget revenues that come to the transportation budget.
  • So we urge you to hold to this amount in your budget and the negotiations for the final budget.
  • So we urge you to hold to this amount in your budget and the negotiations for the final budget.
Bills: SB6225, SB6005, SB6354
Keywords: transportation bonds, general obligation bonds, Washington State Department of Transportation, WSDOT, highway funding, road construction, infrastructure financing, motor fuel tax, gas tax, vehicle fees, bond authorization, state finance committee, highway bond retirement fund, corridor projects, interstate improvements, right-of-way acquisition, public-private partnerships, transportation capital projects, local matching funds, emergency clause
Summary: The Senate Transportation Committee held public hearings on three bills. For SB 6225, the proposed substitute bond bill, staff explained it would authorize $1.1 billion in general obligation bonds for transportation funding, an additional $400 million for completion of selected Move Ahead Washington highway projects, a $500 million increase in SR 520 bond authority, and the sunset of some unused older bond authorizations. For SB 6005, the supplemental transportation budget, staff described a $17.5 billion six-year plan that adds $1.5 billion, including reappropriations, preservation and maintenance funding, adjustments tied to lower revenues and Climate Commitment Account forecasts, and assumptions about future ferry financing. For SB 6354, staff outlined a bill allowing limited direct sales by qualifying EV-only manufacturers, increasing the documentary service fee, and directing part of the new revenue to EV rebates and multimodal transportation funding. Testimony on SB 6005 and SB 6225 was broadly supportive from transit, biking, climate, labor, ports, cities, counties, and business groups, with repeated emphasis on preservation, safety, ferry reliability, freight mobility, and maintaining or expanding climate-related transportation investments. Several witnesses asked for specific project or program changes, including more funding for EV charging, rail electrification and rail capital projects, ferry investments, local bridge and road projects, Spokane TMC operations, county flood response, and freight corridor work in Kent and Lynnwood. Some witnesses also urged the committee to avoid House-proposed reductions to local programs and to preserve long-term bonding and six-year funding stability. Testimony on SB 6354 was split. Supporters, including Climate Solutions, the Washington State Auto Dealers Association, Rivian, Lucid, and some franchise dealers, called it a compromise that would expand EV access while preserving consumer protections and dealer licensing requirements. Opponents, including the Alliance for Automotive Innovation and Honda, argued the bill creates unequal rules by exempting certain manufacturers from the franchise model and said they had not been part of any real compromise. The committee took no votes during the hearing and announced that SB 6225 and SB 6005 would be in executive session Thursday at 8 a.m., with amendments due by noon the prior day; SB 6354 would be acted on later.
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Ways and Means Committee 4/28/25

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • committee will consider what will be a merger of House File 2783, the House omnibus state government budget
  • bill, with House File 1943, omnibus elections budget bill.
Bills: SF3045, HF2783, HF1943
Keywords: omnibus, state government, local government, elections, campaign finance, voter registration, absentee voting, election administration, electronic rosters, lobbying, lobbyist disclosure, state budget, appropriations, biennial budget, Minnesota Secretary of State, Minnesota Management and Budget, state personnel, civil service, affirmative action, disability employment
OK
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee REVISED: SB1262 added pursuant to Speaker's waiver of 48 hr rule Apr 8th, 2026 at 04:30 pm

A&B Education Subcommittee

KY
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Capital Planning Advisory Board (8-29-24)

MN
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

State Committee Meeting - 2025-03-27

State Government Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • This has to do with a correction to the LCC budget recommendation.
  • Section 6 deals with legislative and budget proposal data.
  • The final recommendation is related to budget savings.
  • operating budget.
  • In regards to our ongoing budget, we respectfully request an increase to our general fund budget of $7.5
Bills: HF2783, HF2603, HF2846, HF2354, HF1836, HF2713, HF1198, HF1389
Keywords: state government finance, biennial budget, appropriations, Minnesota Management and Budget, Healthy Aging Subcabinet, Office of Healthy Aging, older adults, aging policy, long-term care, caregivers, public health, Medicaid fraud, medical assistance fraud, attorney general subpoena power, fraud enforcement, business filing fraud, Secretary of State, deceptive mailings, consumer protection, certified public accountant
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 3/27/25

State Government Finance and Policy

TX
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Finance May 21st, 2025

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • after 4 to 8 years of service as a constitutional county judge, and I did account for this in the budget
  • Texas's conservative policies and robust economy have fostered a strong fiscal outlook for the state budget
  • These investments are made from our general operating budgets, which is already stretched thin, of course
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
TX
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Appropriations Apr 15th, 2025

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Texas's conservative governance and thriving economy have created a strong fiscal outlook for the state budget
  • And I won't pretend to know your budget better than you do, but I've spent my career thinking about how
  • wanna, I wanna say apples to apples in your comparison because you're saying it's not government budget
  • to government budgets, government budget to Texas economy.
  • Uh, I'm, you know, I don't profess to know your budget as well as you do.
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
KY
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Budget Review Subcommittee on Health and Family Services (2-2-22)

AZ
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/25/2026 - House Appropriations

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • and making it more difficult to both balance our budget and meet the demands for other projects that
  • If, during the appropriations or budget process, and that's where it will be.
  • So this is a tough, tough budget issue.
  • And I think we should prioritize that in our budget.
  • I think we need to have a broader budget. ...then that's not the way to do it.
Bills: SB1112, SB1517, SB1537, SB1584, SB1673, SB1776
Keywords: mental health, hearings, acquaintance witnesses, patient rights, treatment evaluation, barbering, cosmetology, appropriation, funding, licensing, board operations, peace officer, training, public safety, traffic offenses, judicial system, corrections, recruitment, state budget, crime victims
AZ
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/21/2026 - House Appropriations

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Other executive budgets that are far closer together in terms of base revenue budgets. Haven't you?
  • He's giving us the baseline budget.
  • contradictory budget where we're going to do all of these ongoing expenses and not budget for them in
  • Want to talk about the executive budget? Their budget is $18.7 billion.
  • We in last year's budget provided three years worth of funding for the expansion of I-10. year's budget
Bills: HB2053, HB2116, HB2148
Keywords: stormwater, recharge mapping, water resources, groundwater, appropriation, Arizona, HB2116, Colorado River, litigation fund, water rights, Arizona water law, general fund appropriation, state budget, interstate water compact, Colorado River Compact, water litigation, A.R.S. 45-119, natural resources, water policy, river management
WA
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Feb 27th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The budget is actually too huge to do zero-based budgeting on the entire budget.
  • As it is, this budget is just going to perpetuate the never-ending cycle, it seems, of deficit and tax
  • to perpetuate the never-ending cycle, it seems, of deficit and tax, deficit and tax, deficit increase
  • This budget is the best total education budget this year.
  • The budget is an all-state budget.
Bills: SB6061, SB6234, SB6170, SB6176, SB6182, SB6335, SB5647, SB6047, HB2367, HB2606, SB5998, SB6005, SB6003, SB6129, SB6225, SB6228, SB6231
Keywords: tourism, self-supported assessment, funding, statewide promotion, economic development, sewage, grinder pumps, residential buildings, regulation, construction, contracting rules, state highway construction, procurement limits, state regulations, infrastructure funding, vehicle registration, enforcement, renewal, transportation, state law
Summary: The Senate met on February 23, 2026, opened with the usual roll call, pledge, prayer, and approval of the previous journal. Members then adopted Senate Resolution 8698 recognizing piano teachers, with several senators sharing personal remarks about their own teachers and the role of music education in families and communities. Guests from the Washington State Music Teachers Association and the National Guild of Piano Teachers were recognized in the gallery. The chamber then moved into budget debate, considering a series of amendments to the operating budget. Several proposals focused on housing costs, local planning, utility rates, and state spending restraint. Amendment 0772, which would have created a housing-related task force and increased funding, was rejected after debate over housing affordability and regulatory costs. Amendment 0785, restoring growth management planning funding for local governments, was also rejected. Amendment 0791, directing the Department of Commerce to study the effects of climate and clean energy laws on utility costs, and Amendment 0769, related to grid capacity and clean energy investments, were both adopted. Other amendments drew sharper partisan debate. Amendment 0798, which would have reduced the Supreme Court from nine justices to five and redirected savings to public defense, failed. Amendments 0794 and 0795, seeking funding for ballot measure costs tied to initiatives, also failed. Amendment 0799, intended to redirect Pacific Tower lease savings to developmental disability services, was rejected after discussion of the building’s current public uses. Amendment 0773, capping state spending growth and tying it to median wage growth, failed on a roll call vote, while Amendment 0777, addressing concurrent use of paid family and medical leave and sick leave by state employees, also failed after extended debate. Later, Amendment 0776 on tort liability reporting was adopted, as were Amendment 0758 creating a DSHS work group on community-based services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and Amendment 0786 was introduced to reduce cash and food assistance work-related funding, with debate beginning before the transcript ends.
WA
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Feb 27th, 2026

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This year in the budget, Mr.
  • Zero-based budgeting.
  • The budget is actually too huge to do zero-based budgeting on the entire budget.
  • going to perpetuate the never-ending cycle, it seems, of deficit and tax, deficit and tax, deficit increase
  • to draft this budget.
Bills: SB6061, SB6234, SB6170, SB6176, SB6182, SB6335, SB5647, SB6047, HB2367, HB2606, SB5998, SB6005, SB6003, SB6129, SB6225, SB6228, SB6231
Keywords: tourism, self-supported assessment, funding, statewide promotion, economic development, sewage, grinder pumps, residential buildings, regulation, construction, contracting rules, state highway construction, procurement limits, state regulations, infrastructure funding, vehicle registration, enforcement, renewal, transportation, state law
Summary: The Senate convened with roll call, prayer, and approval of the previous day’s journal, then moved to a resolution honoring piano teachers. Senate Resolution 8698 was adopted after remarks from Senator Conway and others describing the role of piano teachers in music education, family life, and community service. Members of the Washington State Music Teachers Association and the National Guild of Piano Teachers were recognized in the gallery. The chamber then took up the operating budget and considered a long series of amendments. Several amendments focused on housing costs and local planning, utility and energy policy, ballot measure costs, state spending growth, tort liability, and paid family and medical leave. Some amendments were adopted, including a study of utility cost impacts from climate laws, a grid-related funding amendment, a tort liability oversight/reporting amendment, and a workgroup on services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Others were rejected, including proposals to create a housing task force, cap state spending growth, fund ballot initiative costs, restore local planning grants, and change paid family and medical leave usage rules. Debate on the budget amendments was often partisan and detailed, with supporters arguing for fiscal restraint, cost transparency, and relief for taxpayers and local governments, while opponents emphasized existing work, program solvency, and the need to preserve services. The Senate also heard amendments on zero-based budgeting, federal education tax credit opt-in language, reproductive health funding, food assistance work requirements, and support for the Pediatric Interim Care Center; some were defeated and some were adopted. Roll-call votes were taken on certain amendments, and the transcript ends during consideration of Amendment 0787, which would restore funding for the Pediatric Interim Care Center.
TX
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Appropriations Apr 15th, 2025

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Conservative governance and a thriving economy have created a strong fiscal outlook for the state budget
  • to government budget.
  • Budget, government budget to Texas economy, how would that compare with projected ROIs if this $5 billion
  • I don't profess to know your budget as well as you do, but certainly, making...
  • Typically, there's a line item budget in accounting for a volunteer fire department.
Bills: HB 104, HB2054, HB3459, HB3745, HB4486, HB4488, HB4601, HB104
Keywords: Texas Future Fund, investment review board, economic stabilization, innovative technology, national defense, HB 2054, Texas volunteer fire department assistance fund, Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program, volunteer fire departments, wildfire mitigation, wildland fire, rural fire protection, insurer assessment, insurance premium tax, state appropriations, firefighting grants, emergency services, high-risk wildfire areas, Texas Comptroller, Texas Government Code
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 3/3/26

Public Safety Finance and Policy

KY
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations & Revenue. (7-1-26)

Appropriations & Revenue

Transcript Highlights:
  • Budget process with a focus toward budget allotments.
  • I'm the assistant budget<00:03:25.480><c> director.</c> budget director. budget director.
  • </c> The baseline budget is a straight-lined budget based on the current enacted budget as revised.
  • </c> budget request. budget request.
  • </c> budget bill doesn't. budget bill doesn't.
Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Budget Process 00:02:28 Allotment Process 00:10:30 School Facilities Construction Commission 00:29:10 Role of KDE in School Facilities Funding 00:47:00 Kentucky School Boards Association 01:13:25 Elementary and Secondary School Construction 01:20:40 Perkins V Funding 01:35:32, 958, all
ND
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Appropriations - Education and Environment Division Apr 10th, 2025 at 02:30 pm

Appropriations - Education and Environment Division

Transcript Highlights:
  • I've worked with the bank a long time on a lot of different bills and budgets, and there's one consistent
  • And that's a big part of our reputation, is delivering on time and on budget.
  • Alex, know that we're going to switch for the water budget. Okay, thank you.
  • And the idea is to have a group of water topics going all the time and advising the budgeting section
  • Well, that's the extent of our work on the water committee budget.
Bills: HB1329
Keywords: government spending database, public expenditure transparency, open data, government transparency, school district spending, state spending, local government finance, education finance, budget database, expenditure reporting, salary transparency, benefits data, public records, Legislative Management study, North Dakota, school board training, superintendent, principal, business manager, higher education spending
Summary: The division first discussed Senate Bill 1540 and related amendments involving implementation mechanics, procurement exemptions, and an emergency clause. Bank of North Dakota representatives explained that, based on a timeline review with DPI, the project would be very difficult to implement for the 2026-27 school year without exemptions from state purchasing and IT oversight rules and without an emergency clause; they said the normal procurement process could take about 240 days and that a 15-month implementation window would likely push the start to 2027-28 if those changes were not adopted. Members also raised a separate policy question about a criminal penalty placeholder in the bill, and the committee agreed that the sentence was unnecessary and should be removed. The committee deferred means-testing questions and fiscal-note issues to the next morning, with the understanding that the bill would be drafted in a way that made it workable if it advanced. The committee then turned to the water budget bill and reviewed the latest amended version, which included changes to the Water Topics process, Southwest Pipeline line of credit provisions, Red River supply funding, Mouse River project amounts, general water funding, studies on Missouri River intakes and water governance/finance, and a carryover/transfer adjustment. Chris Cattermas of the Department of Water Resources said most of the carryover funds were already obligated, with the largest unobligated amount in flood control. After review, Senator Thomas moved a do-pass recommendation on the bill as amended, the motion was seconded, and the committee approved it unanimously. The chair noted that other bills would be taken up the next morning, including 1013, 1014, and 1540.
ND
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Appropriations - Education and Environment Division Apr 10th, 2025 at 09:30 am

Appropriations - Education and Environment Division

Transcript Highlights:
  • I guess I even ask why some people vote no on budgets in our chamber, and they cannot tell you.
Bills: HB1329
Keywords: government spending database, public expenditure transparency, open data, government transparency, school district spending, state spending, local government finance, education finance, budget database, expenditure reporting, salary transparency, benefits data, public records, Legislative Management study, North Dakota, school board training, superintendent, principal, business manager, higher education spending
Summary: The Education Division met with all members present and first took up House Bill 1329, which would create a transparency database and website for school spending information. Senator Schaible offered Amendment 0204 to turn the bill into a study, citing concerns that the proposal would impose major data-collection burdens on 168 school districts, require new data standards and privacy protections, and likely cost far more than the $500,000 in the bill. Several members supported transparency but agreed the implementation costs and technical feasibility were unclear. The committee adopted the amendment 4-1, then passed HB 1329 as amended on a 5-0 vote, with Senator Shively to carry the bill. The committee then discussed House Bill 1540, the education savings account/voucher bill. Representatives from the Bank of North Dakota and the Department of Public Instruction explained that they had not been consulted on the original drafting and outlined needed administrative changes, including clarifying the Bank as administrator, using a third-party program manager, involving DPI in rulemaking, adding audit and appeal procedures, and adjusting language on eligible purchases and school disqualification. They also said the current timeline was likely too aggressive to launch by the 2026-27 school year and estimated the program would require about 15 months to implement, with a fiscal note now around $5.1 million. Members also discussed policy-related amendments on means testing and application timing. Senator Shively proposed a 300% of poverty-level means test and a sign-up period to reduce costs and limit open-ended enrollment, while Senator Axman proposed a tiered approach that would keep all students technically eligible but phase in funding levels by income, preserving access for students who qualify for other federal supports. DPI said it could not currently disaggregate some data by family income and that the appeal process and procurement timeline still needed work. The committee did not move HB 1540 out that morning and instead recessed to continue discussion later after members had time to review the administrative and fiscal issues separately from the means-testing proposals.