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WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Transportation Feb 19th, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Transportation

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  • He said, for example, the state issues, typically for transportation projects, 25-year bonds.
  • He said, for example, the state issues, typically for transportation projects, 25-year bonds.
  • Or is this a recurring 25 cents per thousand that's applied every year at 25 cents?
  • I'd have to get back to you with that, but it's a, this is the, there's a 75-year cap currently on TIFIA
  • The 25-year plan approved by voters would be turned into something that goes on decades longer, with
Bills: SB6148
Summary: The committee first heard Second Substitute Senate Bill 5690, which would improve coordination between WSDOT and utilities on fish barrier removal projects and utility relocations. Staff explained that the bill would require WSDOT to provide proactive notice to utility owners when feasible, encourage collaboration to maximize federal funding, and report recommendations for improving reimbursement and grant access. The sponsor, Senator McEwen, said the bill was narrowed from a prior version to reduce fiscal impact and cited a project in his district where poor coordination led to wasted public and ratepayer funds. Utility representatives from Washington PUDs, Thurston PUD, and Grays Harbor PUD testified in support, saying better notice and federal funding pursuit would reduce costs and help them budget and plan relocations. No vote was taken, and the public hearing was closed. The committee then took up Senate Bill 6148, which would extend the maximum term for regional transit authority bonds from 40 years to 75 years and remove eligibility for regional mobility grant funds if an RTA uses bonds longer than 40 years. Staff and fiscal discussion focused on how longer bond terms could reduce near-term debt service but increase total interest over time, with illustrative examples showing higher total repayment on longer maturities. Supporters, including Sound Transit board members, local officials, labor, and transit advocates, argued the bill would give Sound Transit flexibility to manage inflation, preserve project schedules, and align with federal TIFIA loan authority, while opponents said it would burden future generations, increase costs, and was unnecessary because Sound Transit already has funding tools and unused bonding capacity. The committee heard extensive testimony but took no final action before adjourning.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Intergovernmental Affairs Aug 22nd, 2025

Intergovernmental Affairs

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  • It's not a linear growth year over year. I need a new fire engine.
  • the 3.5% revenue cap.
  • A total growth year over year of about $61 million.
  • Five years.
  • Before that, I ran a semiconductor. ...business for the last 25 years that we exited two years ago.
Bills: HB26, HB73, SB 14, HB46
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Feb 12th, 2025

Alabama Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • the trunk because the school kids will be counting on you to fly their semi-quin flag for the next year
  • I've said it so many times, but we'll have all sorts of events announced during the year.
  • Herford, on September 3rd, 1963, and his six-year-old son... 1963, and his six-year-old son, they were
  • Fifty-one years later, on December 16th, 2014, Dr.
  • Finally, in 2022, a plaque was years.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Press Conference: Lt. Governor Dan Patrick Feb 12th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I am the aunt of nine-year-old Arlene Alvarez. on her way to dinner on Valentine's Day three years ago
  • My daughter was murdered three years ago. She was 20 years old.
  • Imagine, I've been a victim advocate for over 30 years.
  • We've been working for 30 years.
  • But we didn't have a conversation for two years. For two years, I've already had a meeting.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Feb 12th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Unfortunately, I had to move after a year there because my father got cancer, and I had to move back
  • Every year, courageous young leaders embark on an exciting seven-week journey with a goal of creating
  • a world without blood cancers as each strives to earn the student visionary of the year title.
  • I don't think so this year, but. So. All right, I got it. And I move adoption.
  • Since it's on Google, how many years are you, you want to say?
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 3/24/26

Energy Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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  • think looking 15 years into the future is<01:25:32.000><c> a</c><01:25:32.239><c> perfectly</c><01:25
Bills: HF4236, HF4122, HF4377
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 3/20/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
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TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • The year of Doge. We want to reduce everyone's cost.
  • And the most common is appraisal caps. Colleagues, let's do appraisal caps.
  • Appraisal caps only shift burden. They do not...
  • Chairman, I'm a broker and a 40-year veteran of the real estate industry, and a former eight-year city
  • Increased rates or by the appraisal caps going up.
Bills: SB4, SJR2, SB 4, SJR 2
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 4/1/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
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  • Our request extends the term of the district to 25 years and extends the five-year rule to 13 years.
  • Our request extends the term of the district to 25 years and extends the five-year rule to 13 years.
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KY
Transcript Highlights:
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  • That's what we're doing with several pieces of legislation that you'll see here this year and next year
  • That's what we're doing with several pieces of legislation that you'll see here this year and next year
  • That's what we're doing with several pieces of legislation that you'll see here this year and next year
Summary: The House Standing Committee on Local Government met with a quorum present and began with roll call and a brief introduction of a page, William Huffman, a fifth grader from Lexington. The chair announced that House Bill 7 and House Bill 490 would not be considered that day, with HB 7 described by its sponsor as a housing-related proof-of-concept measure that needed more interim study before returning next session. The committee then heard House Bill 744, sponsored by Representative Richard White, with testimony from Brown County officials. The bill would allow counties to pay routine vendors electronically under a standing order, while still requiring appropriate signatures, to address delayed mail delivery, lost checks, and check-washing concerns. The committee substitute and title amendment were both adopted, and the bill received favorable expression to pass the House floor by roll call vote. Senate Bill 10 was presented by Senator Robbie Mills with support from representatives of the sheriff, firefighters, police chiefs, and cities organizations. The bill would enhance retiree health benefits for CERS career retirees by better aligning the subsidy with under-65 health costs. Members voiced support, including one member explaining a yes vote based on the bill’s benefit to retirees, and the committee voted favorably with a title amendment adopted. Senate Bill 25 was then heard from Senator Mills as part of broader housing legislation; it would expand the use of industrial revenue bonds for large multifamily housing projects of at least 48 units to help address Kentucky’s housing shortage. The committee approved the bill with favorable expression, and at the end members who had arrived late recorded attendance and votes before the meeting adjourned.
DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Administration Committee Meeting Jun 17th, 2026

Administration

Transcript Highlights:
  • This note for this fiscal year is indeterminable. So it's each year from 27, 28, and 29. All right.
  • years that we do the reassessment, seven years, 10 years?
  • years that we do, the reassessment, seven years, 10 years?
  • So would you consider an amendment to making it seven years or 10 years or do you think that is really
  • I think it was two-ish years.
Bills: SB268, SB306, SB264, SB312
Summary: The House Administration Committee met to consider a series of resolutions and bills covering arts districts, child care background checks, federal worker relief, health care reform, court transparency, school tax reassessment, municipal charter changes, constitutional amendment procedures, data center nondisclosure agreements, state employee benefits governance, and lieutenant governor vacancies. Members also noted that House Concurrent Resolution 12 had been removed from the agenda and that public comment would be limited to one minute per speaker. The committee released SCR 167 to study arts, culture, and creative districts in Delaware; HB 438 to close a loophole in the child care service letter requirement; SB 268 to provide interest-free loans, free transit, and tax deferrals for federal workers during shutdowns; SS2 for SB 1 to expand and permanently strengthen primary care investment while also addressing hospital cost growth; HCR 147 to request a Court of Chancery report on audio recordings and automated case assignment; SB 322 to replace the current post-reassessment 10% school revenue increase authority with a 2% annual increase option under safeguards; SB 306 to amend the Rehoboth Beach charter; HB 440 to require voter approval for constitutional amendments after legislative approval; SB 312 to bar nondisclosure agreements for large data center projects; SS1 for SB 289 to change State Employee Benefits Committee governance; and SB 264 to require a special election to fill a lieutenant governor vacancy. Testimony was mixed on several measures. Arts, child care, federal worker relief, primary care, court transparency, data center transparency, and the lieutenant governor vacancy bill drew mostly supportive testimony, while SB 322 and SB 306 drew both support and opposition, especially over tax impacts and the proposed spouse/partner restriction in Rehoboth Beach. HB 440 prompted debate over whether 55% voter approval was the right threshold for constitutional amendments, and SB 312 was supported as a transparency measure by residents affected by prior data center NDAs. All of the listed measures were released from committee by roll call vote, with some members voting no on HB 440, SB 306, SB 312, SS1 for SB 289, and SB 264.
KY
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  • work through<00:25:27.600><c> the</c><00:25:27.799><c> technology</c><00:25:28.640><c> here</c><00:25
Summary: The committee first took up Senate Bill 61, relating to swimming pools, but initially had no representative from the governor’s office or cabinet available to explain the fiscal estimate. Senators questioned why the executive branch’s estimate was $4.25 million to $8.5 million while the committee’s internal fiscal note showed little or no impact. When Department for Public Health staff later joined, they explained their estimate was based on a roughly $85,000 cost for a large outbreak investigation, using a 2014 outbreak as a benchmark, and said the bill could increase workload and outside laboratory costs if private swimming pools became more common as rental properties. They reported 822 waterborne cases in 2024, with 8 tied to private swimming pools, and later corrected an earlier figure to 14 private-pool-related investigations over five years. Senators pressed on the discrepancy between those numbers and the projected 50 to 100 incidents, and staff said the higher figure was a ballpark estimate. The discussion also clarified that private pools are generally excluded by definition, while pools held out for rent may be treated as public pools under current definitions. No vote on SB 61 was taken in the portion provided. The committee then heard Senate Bill 13, concerning the reprocurement of managed care organizations for Medicaid. Department for Medicaid Services officials said the bill would require work on a new RFP, system changes, and oversight improvements, and estimated the cost at $2.8 million based on prior procurement spending of about $2.5 million in 2018-2019, with a 10% growth adjustment. They explained that the work is administrative and therefore matched at 50/50 federal-state funding, not the 80/20 rate used for benefits, and said the expense would be incurred whether the bill passed or not if the state proceeded with an RFP. Senators discussed possible savings from reducing the number of MCOs from five to three, but agency staff said those savings were hard to quantify and that provider and member disruption could create offsetting costs. The committee later moved on to Senate Joint Resolution 25, which would ask the Revenue Department to report on the cost of issuing farmers a wallet-sized tax-exempt card instead of a paper certificate. The resolution was adopted by roll call, with all members present voting aye, and it was reported favorably to the floor.
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:
  • of the death, review it within the next year, and present the following year.
  • The past 40 years. I have lived with CKD for 67 years since my birth.
  • Grants are capped at 250,000 per year, and the recipient must submit annual reports evaluating the AI
  • 5 years, that's all. For 3.5 of those years she would have been enduring chemotherapy.
  • So that's 3 years in the hospital for possibly 2 years of health, OK?
Bills: HB46
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 4/9/26

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
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Bills: HF4841, HF4234, HF3697
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 4/9/26

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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Bills: HF3217, HF2252