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• ,</c> critical shortage in terms of funding, critical shortage in terms of funding, federal<01:19:04.000
• 05.360><c> um</c><01:19:05.520><c> the</c> The federal funding, which has been the majority of our funding
• We are at a critical shortage in terms of funding, federal funding which has been the majority of our
• The tumor registry, which has been a victim of federal fund cuts.
• </c><01:23:07.840><c> government</c> funding cuts from the federal government funding cuts from the federal

Bills: HB1183 , HB1656 , HB1658 , HB1661 , HB1663 , HB1664 , HB1859 , HB2116 , HB2271 , HB2276 , HB2335 , HB2360 , HB2387 , HB2472 , HB1805 , HB2469 , HB1815 , HB1860 , HB2117 , HB2118 , HB2437 , HB2438 , HB2604 , HB1590 , HB2156 , HB2268

Committee: House Finance

Keywords: retirement, pension, law enforcement, public safety, Hawaii Revised Statutes, indebtedness, salary recovery, employee compensation, deductions, financial management, collective bargaining, employee relations, impasse procedures, arbitration, public employment, HB1661, cafeteria plan, Section 125, Internal Revenue Code, flexible spending account

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• </c> FICA federal insurance contribution. FICA federal insurance contribution.
• We need NTIA to get back to helping our communities access federal funding.
• </c> helping our communities access federal helping our communities access federal funding.<04:23:27.279
• </c> service program funding. service program funding.
• The Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund provides funding for broadband networks

Bills: SB146 , HR973 , HR859 , HR906 , HB2449 , HB2399 , HR866 , HB2482 , HB2444 , HB2458 , HB1721 , HB2480 , HB1479 , HB1442 , HR1402 , HR617 , HR452

Keywords: nonconsensual, visual depictions, digital forgery, intimate content, online platforms, privacy, protection, harm prevention, John F. Kennedy Center, Donald J. Trump, Federal arts funding, memorial designation, cultural institutions, Congressional authority, public arts programs, Hampden-Sydney College, anniversary, higher education, civic responsibility, liberal arts

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• The Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund starts on line 260.
• The Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund starts on line 260.
• </c> appropriated in the bill for the arts appropriated in the bill for the arts fund,<00:13:49.839><
• And the second one relates to arts and cultural heritage funds and capital construction.
• You have continued funding for our clean water and arts and cultural.

Bills: HF2563

Committee: House Legacy Finance

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

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• funding to fund community additional own funding to fund community organizations.<00:22:48.720><c> So
• This initiative directly supports the mission of the arts and cultural heritage fund by preserving Minnesota's
• Funding arts-focused events ensures that students from all backgrounds can showcase their talents meaningfully
• </c><00:57:30.960><c> funding</c> pillar of those communities. funding pillar of those communities. funding
• So the aquarium is requesting $750,000 from the Arts and Culture Heritage Fund in fiscal year 2026 to

Bills: HF2411 , HF2471 , HF1440 , HF1393 , HF1631 , HF1259 , HF280 , HF1281 , HF1459

Committee: House Legacy Finance

Keywords: cultural heritage, funding, White Earth Nation, tribal community, construction, Delano, sesquicentennial, community events, fall of Saigon, Saigon anniversary, Vietnam War commemoration, Vietnamese Minnesotans, Cambodian Minnesotans, Lao Minnesotans, Southeast Asian refugees, Asian American heritage, cultural heritage fund, Minnesota Humanities Center, Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans, equity funding

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• I see multiple applications important to digitize the maps of federal to digitize the maps of federal
• </c> regulations and restrictions on federal regulations and restrictions on federal waterways<02:29:
• </c><02:30:40.080><c> outdoor</c> strive to ensure that Federal outdoor strive to ensure that Federal
• Additional Federal employees.
• </c> habitat for Hawaii's federally habitat for Hawaii's federally endangered<03:22:21.080><c> Forest

Bills: HR187 , HR186 , HR375 , HR165 , HR204 , HR197 , HR207

Keywords: government oversight, accountability, federal employees, transparency, administrative leave, Elon Musk, conflict of interest, government efficiency, federal contracts, renewable fuels, ethanol, E15, ethanol-15, renewable fuel standard, RFS, RINs, renewable identification numbers, refinery capacity, farmers, refiners

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• Right now, what we actually manage is the Start principal protection fund, and that's the only fund we
• I know anyone who receives a federal grant, there are tight accountability. A federal grant.
• Martinez, what is—so with the funds that the federal department gives us now, what happens?
• There are lots of ways to move federal resources and funds to states for those purposes, and I imagine
• There are lots of ways to move federal resources and funds to states for those purposes, and I imagine

Bills: HCR14 , HB201 , HB218 , HB352 , HB626 , HB636 , HB738 , HB749

Committee: House Education

Keywords: Department of Education, federal overreach, education policy, Tenth Amendment, local control, fine arts, high school diploma, arts education, capstone project, academic achievement, student recognition, Louisiana education, food insecurity, hunger, student hunger, school meals, free lunch, community eligibility provision, McKinney-Vento, homeless students

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• Fund, $130 million from the Parks and Trails Fund, and $180 million from the Arts and Cultural Heritage
• And then finally, our fourth fund, Arts and Cultural Heritage, $180 million.
• And then finally, our fourth fund, Arts and Cultural Heritage, $180 million.
• And then on line 263 is the start of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
• and cultural heritage out of the arts and cultural heritage fund. fund. fund. uh<01:20:33.920><c> lines

Bills: HF2446 , HF2563 , HF2444

Committee: House Ways and Means

Keywords: agriculture finance, broadband development, Department of Agriculture, Board of Animal Health, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, Office of Broadband Development, food safety, food handler license, cottage food, home processed food, livestock dealer, meat packing company, milk marketer, milk marketing license, grain buyer, grain storage, beginning farmer, emerging farmer, farm down payment assistance, livestock investment grant

Bills: HR113 , HCR121 , HR152 , HCR162 , SB2835 , HR61 , HCR67 , HR94 , HCR102 , HR20 , HCR19 , HR98 , HCR106 , HR57 , HCR63 , HR96 , HCR104 , HR132 , HCR140 , HR133 , HCR141 , HR77 , HCR85 , HR90 , HCR98 , HR155 , HCR165 , HR156 , HCR166 , HR74 , HCR82 , HR190 , HCR200 , HR15 , HCR13 , HR83 , HCR91 , HR117 , HCR125 , HR193 , HCR203 , HR119 , HCR127 , HR114 , HCR122 , HR116 , HCR124 , HR22 , HCR22 , HR120 , HCR128 , HR32 , HCR32 , HR115 , HCR123 , HR138 , HCR146 , HR182 , HCR192 , HR88 , HCR96 , HR50 , HCR54 , HR169 , HCR179 , HR170 , HCR180 , HR31 , HCR31 , HR86 , HCR94 , HR23 , HCR24 , HR7 , HCR8 , HR12 , HCR10 , HR136 , HCR144 , HR108 , HCR116 , HR33 , HCR33 , HR175 , HCR185 , HR129 , HCR137 , HR192 , HCR202 , HR194 , HCR204 , HR19 , HCR18 , HR131 , HCR139 , HR163 , HCR173 , HR109 , HCR117 , HR56

Keywords: Hawaii, House Resolution, HR113, Mermaid Caves, Nanakuli, coastal hazards, sea caves, shoreline safety, public safety, digital maps, navigation apps, Google Maps, Apple Maps, point of interest, recreational destination, emergency response, drownings, rescues, cave safety, DLNR

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• How does the square with a public funds being used to fund some of these agencies?
• But I don't know anything about what the arts council might have available.
• The senator has nothing to do with APA funding. Further questions?
• Is there a sunset in this bill for this funding, or will it continue to just is there a fund a revolving
• fund attached to it.

Bills: SB1307 , SB1425 , SB1826 , SB1365 , SB1696

Committee: Senate Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism

Keywords: Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma Arts Council, J.M. Davis Memorial Commission, historical preservation, arts funding, museum, gun collection, state agency contracts, 501(c)(3), nonprofit corporation, public funds, sectarian, religious funding restriction, appropriations, fiscal oversight, cultural institutions, historical artifacts, SB1425, health care, healthcare workforce

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• Basically, we're trying to set up a revolving fund to help get Local producers to be at their foods to
• This simply provides a fund by which, instead of it going into the general fund of tourism, which is
• I think this is a way to ensure that there's a guardrail To where these funds are being used in a way
• It's creating a revolving fund and a move for adoption. Yield to questions. Thank you, Sherman.
• It's creating a revolving fund and a move for adoption. Yield to questions.

Bills: SB248 , SB985 , SB1307 , SB1319 , SB1405 , SB1530 , SB1919

Committee: House A&B Natural Resources Subcommittee

Keywords: tourism, revolving fund, Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department, real property, fund management, Oklahoma Local Food for Schools, school meals, local food procurement, farm to school, school districts, Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, local producers, meat processors, reimbursement program, agriculture, nutrition, farmers, ranchers, local sourcing

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• from the Barbering and Cosmetology Fund rather than the State General Fund.
• Fund rather than the State General Fund.
• State General Fund.
• That's going to come from the Personnel Division Fund. We already deposit those funds.
• That's going to come from the personnel division fund. We already deposit those funds.

Bills: SB1108 , SB1205 , SB1241 , SB1286 , SB1366 , SB1431 , SB1473 , SB1477 , SB1478 , SB1479 , SB1492 , SB1517 , SB1563 , SB1586 , SB1665 , SB1671

Committee: Senate Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency

Keywords: cash transactions, mandatory rounding, swedish rounding, public notice, Arizona Revised Statutes, motor vehicle booting, private property, fees, dispute process, regulations, SB1241, private permitting provider, private permit, private certificate of completion, building permit, building plan review, inspection, single-trade residential construction, residential construction, municipal permitting

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• Funding for its account is from tax revenues on lodging, car rentals, and restaurants.
• The assessment is an annual fee paid by a business to fund tourism promotion.
• The ROB also governs the Authority's administration of government tax funds.
• while the WTMA collects the funds and enforces them.
• The funds must be placed in a non-state account, and the ratepayer oversight board spends the funds from

Bills: HB2278 , HB2325 , HB2481 , HB2503

Committee: House Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans

Keywords: tourism, promotion areas, state funding, economic development, community engagement, tourism promotion, Washington Tourism Marketing Authority, assessment, self-supported assessment, visitor economy, destination marketing, statewide marketing, lodging, hotels, restaurants, travel services, attractions, recreation, retail, beverage producers

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• succeeded based on federal, state, and regional sources we could come upon to get $21.5 million of funding
• succeeded based on federal, state, and regional sources we could come upon to get $21.5 million of funding
• succeeded based on federal, state, and regional sources we could come upon to get $21.5 million of funding
• Our funds are locked up in the PFA right now, so we need those funds.
• PFA right now, so we need those funds unlocked through the revolving fund.

Bills: HF220 , HF230 , HF240 , HF241 , HF295 , HF429 , HF490 , HF505 , HF574 , HF576 , HF581 , HF865 , HF918 , HF1085 , HF1449 , HF1452 , HF1454 , HF602

Committee: House Capital Investment

Keywords: HF220, Minnesota transportation, highway user tax distribution fund, trunk highway fund, Minnesota Department of Transportation, MnDOT, transportation finance, dedicated funds, funding restrictions, arts in transportation, cultural strategies, transportation project planning, project design, project construction, placemaking, public art, infrastructure spending, state statutes 161.045, HF230, Wyoming

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• can actually threaten the amount of federal funds we get through those programs.
• can actually threaten the amount of federal funds we get through those programs.
• And that funding is expected to result in $337.5 million in federal, local, and other matching funds.
• and local funds million in federal and local funds allowing<00:37:06.640><c> deficient</c><00:37:07.119
• Um, from uh in terms of federal funds.

Bills: HF220 , HF230 , HF240 , HF241 , HF295 , HF429 , HF490 , HF505 , HF574 , HF576 , HF581 , HF865 , HF918 , HF1085 , HF1449 , HF1452 , HF1454 , HF602

Committee: Senate Capital Investment

Keywords: HF220, Minnesota transportation, highway user tax distribution fund, trunk highway fund, Minnesota Department of Transportation, MnDOT, transportation finance, dedicated funds, funding restrictions, arts in transportation, cultural strategies, transportation project planning, project design, project construction, placemaking, public art, infrastructure spending, state statutes 161.045, HF230, Wyoming

Bills: HB1742 , HB3370 , HCR72 , SB1383 , HR261 , HJR72 , HB3617 , HR1057

Keywords: military, abortion, reproductive health, leave policies, armed forces, healthcare access, fertility care, Access to Reproductive Care for Servicemembers Act, servicemembers, military leave, reproductive rights, assisted reproductive technology, in vitro fertilization, IVF, intrauterine insemination, egg retrieval, cryopreservation, travel reimbursement, lodging reimbursement, meal reimbursement

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• We don't want to lose that federal funding. So, Mr.
• It's just the way the federal funding works in combination. five-year period.
• It's just the way the federal funding works in combination with our state funding.
• We also looked at federal funding, but we decided to keep it local.
• We also looked at federal funding, but we decided to keep it local.

Bills: HM3 , HM11 , HM14 , HM15 , HM21 , HM25 , HB9 , SB2 , SB19

Keywords: nurses, health care workers, healthcare workers, frontline workers, hospital staff, clinicians, allied health professionals, support staff, public health, workforce shortage, nursing shortage, safe staffing, patient safety, rural health care, frontier communities, behavioral health, mental health, substance use disorder, substance abuse, health care memorial

Bills: HB236 , HB236

Committee: House Baldwin County Legislation

Keywords: HB236, Baldwin County, Board of Equalization, per diem, supplemental compensation, county board, ad valorem tax, property tax appeal, tax assessment, mileage reimbursement, Consumer Price Index, CPI adjustment, local legislation, equalization board, taxpayer protests, property inspection, county revenue, education appropriations, supplemental appropriation, Education Trust Fund

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• On the education side, uh, it was really we wanted to take full advantage of federal PEL funding, and
• so where we could use federal PEL funding, we really relied on that, and uh these resources were as
• On the education side, uh, it was really we wanted to take full advantage of federal PEL funding, and
• so where we could use federal PEL funding, we really relied on that, and uh these resources were as
• On the education side, uh, it was really we wanted to take full advantage of federal PEL funding, and

Bills: HF3006 , HF2130 , HF1290

Committee: House Ways and Means

Keywords: Department of Corrections, DOC, corrections budget, supplemental appropriation, deficiency funding, public safety finance, incarceration, prerelease services, community supervision, postrelease services, supervised release, probation, reentry, reentry services, prison reform, body-worn cameras, corrections officer cameras, ARMER radio system, PREA, Prison Rape Elimination Act

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• staff to the committee: House Bill 2325 establishes a tourism self-supported assessment program to fund
• Washington State Tourism Marketing Authority the state agency responsible for the governance of tax funds
• that, we will consider House Bill 2325, establishing a tourism self-supported assessment program to fund
• I also recommend aye because for about seven long years, we had no funding of statewide tourism marketing
• Since then, the industry has recognized that the general fund we funded with is just not enough, and

Bills: HB2325 , HB2481 , HB2503 , HB2397 , HB2278 , HB2417

Committee: House Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans

Keywords: tourism, tourism promotion, Washington Tourism Marketing Authority, assessment, self-supported assessment, visitor economy, destination marketing, statewide marketing, lodging, hotels, restaurants, travel services, attractions, recreation, retail, beverage producers, arts and culture, tribal nations, tribal businesses, rural communities

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• So for years now, we've been working through issues with the Aviation Trust Fund.
• This is a dedicated fund stream within the state's transportation fund, administered through the DOTD's
• In practical terms, this fund provides the state share needed to draw down federal airport infrastructure
• Without it, Louisiana airports risk losing major federal funding.
• $10 to $12 million a year in state general fund dollars.

Bills: HB1039 , SB423 , SB436

Committee: House Ways & Means

Keywords: local sales tax, local use tax, sales and use tax, tax audit, local collector, tax collector, prescriptive period, prescription waiver, interest suspension, delinquency penalties, estimated assessment, arbitrary assessment, certified mail notice, audit notice, taxpayer rights, installment agreement, Louisiana tax law, Title 47, revenue collection, tax administration