Video & Transcript Research : 'CHOOSE Act Fund'
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AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Apr 22nd, 2025
Ways and Means Education
Transcript Highlights:
- We also took $101 million from the ETF for the Choose Act and put that into the Choose Act fund.
- into the Choose Act fund.
- fund, and we would add to that if there are reversions from the Choose Act and the ENT fund.
- reserve fund to the Choose Fund with the understanding that any money that's not used in the Choose
- So, we've moved this $80 million from the reserve fund to the Choose Fund. to the Choose Fund so they
Keywords:
education funding, appropriations, local education boards, school safety, workforce development, Alabama, technology, higher education, career technology centers, public institutions, grants, local education agencies, RAISE Act, student outcomes, public schools, accountability, weighted allocations, special education, English language learners, gifted students
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Apr 9th, 2025
Finance and Taxation Education
Transcript Highlights:
- This is the Raise Act for the committee members.
- And Formula for student-based funding.
- , and it'll go into the Raise fund that is created.
- We start doing our Raise Act or our student weighted funding act steadily increasing each year out of
- We took the split and opportunity fund.
Keywords:
education funding, RAISE Act, student outcomes, public schools, local education agencies, accountability, weighted allocations, special education, English language learners, gifted students, Tuskegee University, Alabama Education Trust Fund, appropriation, agricultural research, Southern Preparatory Academy, fiscal responsibility, financial reporting, Education Savings Accounts, RAISE Fund, CHOOSE Act Fund
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Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Feb 12th, 2025
Ways and Means Education
Transcript Highlights:
- , or the funds, the $50... and the fund, or the funds, the $50, and then it also establishes a fund for
- Fund today has $1.7 billion in the fund.
- Where we are today, of course, the Rolling Reserve Act passed the Budget Stabilization Fund instead of
- Within that fund, there are two what I call creators: the Rainy Day Fund for the general fund and the
- Rainy Day Fund for the Education Trust Fund.
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry Committee Apr 1st, 2026
Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
Keywords:
HB444, vaccines, vaccine exemption, religious exemption, religious liberty, private school, church school, faith-based school, parochial school, school immunization, testing requirement, disease testing, parental rights, school enrollment, attendance requirements, CHOOSE Act, school choice, education funding, tax exemption, corporate income tax
HI
Keywords:
supplemental appropriations, state budget, Hawaii budget, biennial budget, capital improvement projects, CIP, general fund, special fund, green fee, special land and development fund, clean energy revolving loan fund, agricultural development revolving fund, community grants, nonprofit grants, Office of Community Services, housing, affordable housing, homelessness, health care, mental health
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Children and Senior Advocacy Committee Feb 4th, 2026
Children and Senior Advocacy
Transcript Highlights:
- the policy of the state to assure that children have frequent and continuing contact with parents who act
- I mean, you know, we're acting like they're working, but I mean, is it work?
- I mean, you know, we're<00:48:20.480><c> acting</c><00:48:20.800><c> like</c><00:48:20.960><c> they're
- </c><00:48:21.200><c> working,</c><00:48:21.520><c> but</c><00:48:21.760><c> I</c> we're acting like
- they're working, but I we're acting like they're working, but I mean,<00:48:22.240><c> is</c><00:48:22.480
Keywords:
Ebony Alert, missing youth, public safety, law enforcement, racial equity, HB170, supplemental appropriations, Education Trust Fund, Alabama education budget, school funding, K-12 education, local boards of education, textbook adoption, school buses, school safety, charter schools, summer programs, afterschool programs, reading intervention, college and career readiness
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Children and Senior Advocacy Committee Jan 21st, 2026
Children and Senior Advocacy
Keywords:
elder abuse, elder exploitation, financial exploitation, elderly person, senior abuse, probate, inheritance forfeiture, slayer statute, intestate succession, will contest, joint tenancy, right of survivorship, joint bank account, beneficiary designation, life insurance proceeds, estate law, Alabama probate law, vulnerable adults, senior advocacy, forfeiture of benefits
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Feb 9th, 2026 at 06:36 pm
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- investment fund that provides revenue for the Land of Enchantment Legacy Fund, from which distributions
- The changes that HB 184 would ensure that the fund will be sustained into the future and allow more funding
- It made several changes to the structure of that fund...” “That fund.
- The Public Project Revolving Fund provides stable, consistent funding that is not reliant on the general
- fund.
Keywords:
water project fund, New Mexico Finance Authority, NMFA, Water Trust Board, water infrastructure, wastewater, drinking water, flood prevention, watershed restoration, water storage, conveyance, delivery, water treatment, recycling, reuse, municipal infrastructure, local government finance, capital outlay, grants, loans
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee Mar 5th, 2025
Finance and Taxation General Fund
Transcript Highlights:
- They don't have the funds for that.
- Act?
- Act was passed to allow for...
- The $1 million annually, are these new funds that we're drawing down, or are they existing funds?
- It would be new funds as it would...
Keywords:
income tax, CHOOSE Act, education funding, ABLE account, tax credits, poverty threshold, legislative funding, HB89, Medicaid, pregnant women, pregnancy, prenatal care, ambulatory prenatal care, presumptive eligibility, temporary Medicaid coverage, Alabama Medicaid Agency, maternal health, low-income women, health coverage, eligibility determination
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Mar 18th, 2026
Ways and Means Education
Transcript Highlights:
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- act funds was position that choose act funds was financial<00:23:56.559><c> aid</c><00:23:57.280><c>
- > not</c> do is take choose act funds, you're not do is take choose act funds, you're not automatically
- </c><00:24:53.360><c> Any</c> participating in choose act funds.
- Any participating in choose act funds.
Bills:
HB527, HB563, HB580, HB579, SB190, HB15, HB390, HB527, HB563, HB580, HB579, SB190, HB15, HB390
Keywords:
liability, off-roading, parks, participant safety, risk management, SNAP, food assistance, public assistance, income standards, Department of Human Resources, eligibility, HB580, Alabama Healthy Schools Act, public schools, K-12, school nutrition, school meals, cafeteria, vending machines, fundraising sales
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- All the COLAs are out of the funded deposit account, so that it's not out of the direct main fund.
- This amount is self-funded by the judiciary and has a subject-to-available-funding clause.
- private funds.
- We are a well-funded fund and we are not a state fund.
- Could you talk a little bit about the health of your fund and how it differs from other state funds?
Bills:
SB25, SB250, HB22, HB27, HB33, HB47, HB233, HB290, HB308, HB324, HB382, HB533, HB559, HB575, HB980, HB1157, HB1207, HB1236, HCR45
Keywords:
registrar of voters, parish registrar, chief deputy registrar, confidential assistant, election administration, elections, salary schedule, compensation, merit evaluation, population-based pay, census-based pay, Department of State, Secretary of State, State Board of Election Supervisors, redistricting, senate districts, Senate District 33, Senate District 34, Senate District 35, precincts
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- It requires the state treasurer to create the fund and allows additional funding from grants, donations
- It just standardizes the language in the fund to make it conform to other funds in the statutes.
- allocations are made, to be deposited in the new fund.
- allocations are made, to be deposited in the new fund.
- The bill creates a fund.
Keywords:
bulletproof vests, body armor, peace officers, law enforcement funding, police equipment, officer safety, local police, sheriff's office, municipal police, parish law enforcement, grant fund, special fund, Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement, criminal justice, protective gear, NIJ standards, USMCA, small agencies, public safety, Act 739
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Apr 7th, 2026
Ways and Means Education
Transcript Highlights:
- This is the bill we passed before that had to do with the Let the Kids Play bill, the CHOOSE Act bill
- , which was to clarify that a student who was receiving CHOOSE Act funds would not be excluded from participation
- the student is a choose act the student is a choose act participating<00:06:11.520><c> student.
- <00:06:46.639><c> on</c><00:06:46.720><c> the</c><00:06:46.880><c> choose</c><00:06:47.120><c> act</c
- status of the solely on the choose act status of the student<00:06:48.080><c> and</c><00:06:48.240><
Keywords:
land bank, land bank authority, local land bank authority, Alabama Land Bank Authority, tax delinquent property, tax sale, tax lien, redemption period, quiet title, blight remediation, vacant property, foreclosure, ad valorem tax, property tax exemption, intergovernmental agreement, county government, municipal government, redevelopment, brownfields, floodplain management
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- It is self-acting. It's self-reporting.
- The only one that's left in that is the Cotten-Jenner's fund. It's about $250,000.
- fund.
- Texas has historically been able to fund critical services. about imposing burdensome new taxes.
- I believe this website will act in similar fashion to the Commission's Power to Choose website, which
Bills:
SB264, SB542, SB924, SB1008, SB1029, SB1036, SB1057, SB1058, SB1185, SB1202, SB1358, SB1364, SB1376, SB1569, SB1664, SB1697, SJR50
Keywords:
SB 264, Texas Workers' Compensation Act, group self-insurance, self-insured groups, workers' compensation, Texas Department of Insurance, commissioner of insurance, certificate of approval, guaranty fund, trust fund, wind down, dissolution, labor code, insurance regulation, employer coverage, risk pool, business and commerce, trade workforce economic development, property owners' association, water conservation
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- If you turn to the fourth page, you'll see the clean water fund, and the clean water fund is largely
- Fund.
- . fund.
- The DE1 amendment would shift funding to the Parks and Trails Fund, which presents a number of challenges
- It's tough for us to fund everybody.
Bills:
HF2563
Keywords:
HF2563, legacy finance bill, Legacy Amendment, outdoor heritage fund, clean water fund, parks and trails fund, arts and cultural heritage fund, Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council, Clean Water Council, Minnesota legacy funds, habitat conservation, prairie restoration, wetland restoration, forest conservation, riparian buffers, water quality, groundwater protection, drinking water, septic systems, watershed planning
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- This is the Parks and Trails Fund.
- This is the Parks and Trails Fund.
- Uh in of those each of those funds.
- Fund.
- funding for can reconsider the funding for children's<00:35:32.960><c> museums</c><00:35:33.760><c>
Bills:
HF2563
Keywords:
HF2563, legacy finance bill, Legacy Amendment, outdoor heritage fund, clean water fund, parks and trails fund, arts and cultural heritage fund, Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council, Clean Water Council, Minnesota legacy funds, habitat conservation, prairie restoration, wetland restoration, forest conservation, riparian buffers, water quality, groundwater protection, drinking water, septic systems, watershed planning
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- , take the cap off the Early Childhood Education Fund, and put a cap on the sport fund.
- So there was an impact on the school fund. there were two streams of money going to the sport fund, so
- It was the only difference was that the early childhood fund had a cap and the sport fund doesn't have
- The implementation of the provisions of this Act shall be subject to the appropriations of funds by the
- , gifts, and federal funds.
Bills:
SB83, SB135, SB143, SB155, SB157, SB202, SB237, SB261, SB276, SB295, SB450, SB465, SB506, HB1070
Keywords:
human trafficking, trafficking prevention, school safety, public schools, elementary and secondary education, charter schools, mandatory reporting, victim identification, victim services, child trafficking, sex trafficking, labor trafficking, commercial sexual activity, DCFS, Department of Children and Family Services, Louisiana State Police, governor's office of human trafficking prevention, counselor training, mental health professional, administrator training
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Chairman, members, this basically is an extension of the TEF fund. It allows municipal utilities.
- The substitute makes sure that the Open Records Act applies. I move passage. All right.
- Uh, we're gonna create the Solar Residential Solar Retailer Regulatory Act under Chapter 1806 of the
- The Texas legislature acted last session to ensure uniform uniformality in local regulations, and SB
Keywords:
residential solar, solar retailer, solar salesperson, solar panel sales, solar lease, solar installation, renewable energy, clean energy, consumer protection, deceptive sales, door-to-door solicitation, occupational registration, TDLR, Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation, Public Utility Commission, electrical contractor, interconnection, net metering, Truth in Lending Act
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The T.E.F. fund allows municipal utilities.
- The substitute makes sure that the Open Records Act applies. I move passage. All right.
- We are going to create the Residential Solar Retailer Regulatory Act under Chapter 1806 of the Occupations
- The Texas Legislature acted last session to ensure uniformity in local regulations, and SB 1036 builds
Keywords:
residential solar, solar retailer, solar salesperson, solar panel sales, solar lease, solar installation, renewable energy, clean energy, consumer protection, deceptive sales, door-to-door solicitation, occupational registration, TDLR, Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation, Public Utility Commission, electrical contractor, interconnection, net metering, Truth in Lending Act
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- The House Bill 311 increases OSE's funding. The House Bill 311 increases OSCE's funding.
- And if you don't lift the cap, the money right now just goes into the fund, the environmental trust fund
- And if you don't lift the cap, the money right now just goes into the fund, the environmental trust fund
- We have had the funds available in the hazardous waste cleanup fund.
- It goes to the Environmental Trust Fund? That's correct. Okay.
Keywords:
HB 290, Act 426, sunset law, Department of the Treasury, Louisiana Treasury, re-creation, reauthorization, statutory entities, termination date, sunset review, Title 49, fiscal administration, state finance, agency continuation, legislative authority, insurance premiums, Municipal Fire and Police, dedicated fund, assessments, Louisiana legislation