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US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, December 9, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Bills:
HR432 , HR312 , HR311 , HR310 , HR309 , HR308 , HB1676 , SB356 , HR1372 , HB2175 , HB1461 , HB2466 , SB2283 , HB1830 , HR1009 , HR1008 , HR323 , HB5131 , HB4503 , HR573 , HB2916 , HB2306 , HB2290 , HB2389 , HB2388 , HB3857 , HB2293 , HR655 , HB4285 , HR1276 , HB2302
Keywords:
federal labor relations, executive order, labor management, federal oversight, government reform, wildlife conservation, Pittman-Robertson, state plans, environment, approval process, Secretary of the Interior, Secure Rural Schools, reauthorization, federal land payments, county payments, state payments, payments in lieu of taxes, PILT, rural counties, forest counties
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- We pay PILT on those lands.
- All of Minnesota's PILT laws or PILT eligibility is defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 477A.
- We pay PILT on those lands.
- All of Minnesota's PILT laws or PILT eligibility is defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 477A.
- All of Minnesota's PILT laws or PILT eligibility is defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 477A.
Committee:
Senate Taxes
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- PILT payments.
- Um, on the, uh, protection summary, the easements, uh, with PILT, without PILT.
- paying PILT.
- paying PILT.
- So with PILT means that the DNR owns it and will be paying PILT.
Committee:
House Legacy Finance
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- will comply with PILT or be included in PILT.
- the number of acres that will comply with PILT or be included in PILT.
- will comply with PILT or be included in PILT.
- will comply with PILT or be included in PILT.
- will comply with PILT or be included in PILT.
Committee:
Senate Taxes
Keywords:
property tax, exemption, leased land, public use, commercial property, HF632, Minnesota property tax, conservation easement, conservation restriction, assessed value, property valuation, tax assessment, real property, land conservation, farmland preservation, natural areas, riparian buffer, water quality, water quantity, county assessor
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:36:41.359><c> Um</c> table to cut PILT substantially. Um table to cut PILT substantially.
- And this committee arm for PILT.
- :58.800><c> to</c> comparing these PILT payments to comparing these PILT payments to potential<00:47:
- Senator Weber. is how do PILt pay because one of the is how do PILt pay because one of the things<00:
- Um, Senate File 2116. acres that are now in Pilt um and acres that are now in Pilt um and seeking<00:
Committee:
Senate Taxes
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Environment, Climate and Legacy - 03/17/26
Environment, Climate, and Legacy
Transcript Highlights:
- a PILT payment.
- Protect and fee without PILT are for lands that aren't making PILT payments.
- Um protectant fee with PILT. Um wetland. Um protectant fee with PILT.
- Protect and fee making a PILT payment. Protect and fee without<00:18:39.679><c> PILt.
- PILT and without<00:19:29.760><c> Pilt</c><00:19:30.160><c> is</c><00:19:30.320><c> actually</c><00:
Committee:
Senate Environment, Climate, and Legacy
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- ,</c> protected in fee with PILT, protected in fee with PILT, the<00:18:19.720><c> numbers</c><00:18:
- </c> without PILT without PILT is<00:18:46.760><c> the</c><00:18:46.840><c> protected</c><00:18:47.360
- </c> Yes, those protected in fee with PILT Yes, those protected in fee with PILT are<00:19:03.880><c>
- The other question I have is: does the PILT come out of the general fund, or what fund does the PILT
- Chair. the tax, the PILT part. the tax, the PILT part.
Committee:
Senate Finance
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- There's protect and fee without PILT.
- For land going to the DNR, that's with PILT.
- </c><00:23:10.039><c> there's</c> for protectant fee with pilt there's for protectant fee with pilt there's
- </c> Acres protect and fee with State pilt Acres protect and fee with State pilt liability<00:37:02.520
- pilt State pilt liability in fee without pilt State pilt liability so<00:37:43.599><c> again</c><00:
Bills:
HF1250
Committee:
House Legacy Finance
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- payments so right now reduction in pilt payments so right now those<00:18:50.360><c> payments</c><00
- Thank you. ...I really do want us to pause a little bit on PILT.
- Hilgart talked about some of the impacts of these cost shifts, whether it's PILT or the HHS shifts.
- Thank you. ...shifts, whether it's PILT or the HHS shifts.
- The PILT we've already heard about is a big hit.
Committee:
House Taxes
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Gov. Tim Walz's tax bill, HF2437, heard in House Taxes Committee 4/2/25
Transcript Highlights:
- also the second item, and this was part of the amendment you added today, was the 34% reduction in PILT
- also the second item, and this was part of the amendment you added today, was the 34% reduction in PILT
- Hilgart talked about some of the impacts of these cost shifts, whether it's PILT or the HHS.
- Hilgart talked about some of the impacts of these cost shifts, whether it's PILT or the HHS.
- It's PILT or the HHS.
Summary:
The committee took up House File 2437, the governor’s proposed tax bill, and first adopted the A25-Z42 amendment to put the bill in the desired shape. Commissioner Paul Marquardt of the Department of Revenue then presented the bill as part of Governor Walz and Lieutenant Governor Flanagan’s budget, describing it as a response to budget pressures that would make the tax system more fair and stable while supporting economic development and jobs.
Marquardt walked through the bill’s major provisions. These included sustainable aviation fuel policy, repeal of K-12 education credit assignment, elimination of the political contribution refund, expansion of the research and development credit, short-line railroad infrastructure modernization, changes to the state airport fund levy, replacement of attachments and appearances with distribution systems, a narrow personal property tax exception for low-income housing tenants, reduced aquatic invasive species aid, and a 34% reduction in PILT payments. He then focused on the sales tax article, saying it would lower the statewide rate by 0.75% while expanding the base to selected professional services such as accounting, banking, brokerage, and legal services, with business-to-business transactions exempt. He said the proposal would be effective for sales and purchases after September 30, 2025, and estimated a first-year rate-cut impact of about $99 million versus $215 million from the service expansion, while arguing that most households would see a net tax cut. He also noted other changes such as landlord penalty adjustments, a 30% reduction in sustainable aviation fuel incentive payments, repeal of local government cannabis aid, and repeal of the tax filing modernization account.
Public testimony began with Kyle Playford of the Financial Planning Association of Minnesota, who strongly opposed the proposed sales tax on professional services, especially financial planning. He argued that financial planning is an essential service for retirement, investment, and long-term financial security, and said the tax would raise costs for consumers, reduce access for middle-class families, small business owners, and retirees, and put Minnesota firms at a competitive disadvantage. The chair then indicated that additional public testimony would continue before member questions.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Working Group on Omnibus Taxes Bill - Part 1 - 05/22/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We also looked at PILT, and I thought, oh boy, that's a direct property tax increase.
- We start cutting PILT, so we didn't do that at all.
- We also looked at PILT, and I thought, oh boy, that's a direct property tax increase.
- We start cutting PILT, so we didn't do that at all.
- ,</c> uh and not to touch not to touch pilt, uh and not to touch not to touch pilt, not<01:00:04.720>
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- Mason, are the PILT payments sufficient as currently structured?
- Having said that, PILT is a bipartisan bill that passes with annual appropriations in large bipartisan
- Having said that, PILT is a bipartisan bill that passes with annual appropriations in large bipartisan
- PILT. PILT and SRS. They're not guaranteed. They're not always consistent. I wish they were.
- And any land that is not in this trust, that is still federal land, we will still expect PILT and SRS
Committee:
Senate State Affairs
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> 34% of their budget comes from PILT 34% of their budget comes from PILT because<02:57:12.479><c>
- And that could be whether there were PILT payments attached to it already or no PILT payments, or it
- </c> payment in lie of taxes instead pilt payment in lie of taxes instead pilt payments.<03:04:12.080
- But if you want to No pilt on that.
- And hopefully we'll get pilt on acres.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Environment, Climate and Legacy - 04/10/25
Environment, Climate, and Legacy
Transcript Highlights:
- The Coochiching County 37% of their budget is those PILT payments.
- by PILT payments because of all the public lands that we have.
- </c><00:54:10.880><c> Um,</c> that are on the table with Pilt. Um, that are on the table with Pilt.
- And, uh, so we don't get PILT for the federal already.
- That's the the should the pilt go away.
Committee:
Senate Environment, Climate, and Legacy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Environment, Climate and Legacy - 02/04/25
Environment, Climate, and Legacy
Transcript Highlights:
- Without PILT, it will be about 4,000 protected in fee with PILT, about 2,485, and then restored will
- will be about 4,000 without pilt will be about 4,000 protected<00:09:06.440><c> in</c><00:09:06.600>
- in fee with pilt about protected in fee with pilt about 2485<00:09:09.720><c> and</c><00:09:09.880><c
- or without PILT, etc.
- The enhancement breaks out, or the fee title acquisition with PILT or without PILT, etc.
Committee:
Senate Environment, Climate, and Legacy
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Agriculture Oct 7th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- and they frequently, and you're smiling as if you know what I'm going to bring up, maybe not, the PILT
- perspective, Can you help me understand how you look at what might be needed in order to adequately fund the PILT
- Frankly, I'm not as familiar with the PILT program. My smile wasn't because of the familiarity.
Summary:
The Committee on Agriculture met to hear updates on land conservation and agricultural preservation programs. The Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services presented on the Rural and Family Lands Protection Program, explaining that it protects active agricultural lands through conservation easements while keeping land in private ownership and on the tax rolls. The director said the program requires participants to use agricultural best management practices, noted strong demand with 428 ranked projects for 2025, and reported that consistent legislative funding and partnerships with USDA, DOD, local governments, land trusts, and water management districts have expanded acreage protected, much of it within the Florida Wildlife Corridor. Committee members asked about eligibility, ranking, local government involvement, and how many projects are typically funded each year.
Conservation Florida’s president and CEO testified that both Rural and Family Lands and Florida Forever are critical and complementary tools for preserving working lands, wildlife habitat, water resources, and public access to nature. She warned that uncertainty or cuts in state funding can stall projects, raise land prices, and reduce conservation momentum. In discussion with senators, she said public access is often negotiated case by case and is more common on lands acquired for parks, forests, and other public green space than on conservation easements.
The Department of Environmental Protection then updated the committee on Florida Forever, describing it as the state’s premier conservation and recreation land acquisition program. DEP said Florida Forever uses both conservation easements and fee-simple purchases, with about half of acquisitions done through easements, and emphasized that steady funding is needed to keep projects moving. The deputy secretary reported 60 projects on the current work plan, more than $1.4 billion invested since 2019, and recent acquisitions including new state forest, park, and preserve expansions. Members also raised concerns about payment in lieu of taxes for fiscally constrained counties, local notification of acquisitions, and the need for continued support for agriculture, citrus, roads, and conservation funding. No formal votes were taken, and the meeting adjourned after member comments and public testimony.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Appropriations Mar 9th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- And so they would have to be paying a PILT, property in lieu of taxes, if even...
- And so they would have to be paying a PILT, property in lieu of taxes, if even... ...paying property,
- a PILT, property in lieu of taxes, if even if they're not bringing income in.
- I think what the biggest threat is, especially with the discussion around the impact fees and the PILT
Summary:
The House Appropriations Committee met in executive session on three bills. For Second Substitute Senate Bill 6182, staff explained it would create an abortion savings program funded by a new assessment on health carriers to support grants for abortion clinical care access. Representative Marshall offered amendments to limit grants to Washington residents, expand eligibility to IVF and fertility providers, prioritize medically underserved areas, and add a 2031 sunset; all were rejected or withdrawn. The committee then voted 18-10 to report the bill out with a do pass recommendation.
For Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6260, staff briefed a striking amendment that would reduce savings in K-12 spending by changing local effort assistance and Running Start limits, prioritizing some transition-to-kindergarten funding, and eliminating inflation increases for National Board bonuses. Members debated a series of amendments on bus depreciation, charter school LEA payments, transition-to-kindergarten funding, and Running Start. Some amendments were adopted, including a bus depreciation change and a Running Start adjustment, while others were rejected. The committee then adopted the striker as amended and reported the bill out 17-12 with a due pass recommendation.
For Substitute Senate Bill 6355, which would establish the Washington Electric Transmission Authority and related board and advisory structures, members considered amendments on rural land-use expertise, eastern Washington board representation, corridor review standards, tribal workgroup removal, and payments in lieu of taxes for transmission facilities. One amendment was withdrawn and the others were rejected except for a landowner/rural expertise amendment that passed. The committee then reported the bill out 18-11 with a due pass recommendation. At the end of the meeting, members exchanged closing remarks thanking staff and colleagues, and the committee adjourned.
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- And so they would have to be paying a PILT, property in lieu of taxes, even if they're not bringing income
- And so they would have to be paying a pilt, property in lieu of taxes, if even paying property a pilt
- I think what the biggest threat is, especially with the discussion around the impact fees and the PILT
Committee:
House Appropriations
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- and they frequently, and you're smiling as if you know what I'm going to bring up, maybe not, the PILT
- perspective, Can you help me understand how you look at what might be needed in order to adequately fund the PILT
- Frankly, I'm not as familiar with the PILT program. My smile wasn't because of the familiarity.
Committee:
Senate Agriculture
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Agriculture convened with a quorum and heard presentations focused on land conservation and agricultural preservation in Florida. The Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services briefed the committee on the Rural and Family Lands Protection Program, explaining that it protects active agricultural lands through permanent conservation easements while keeping land in private ownership and on the tax rolls. The presentation emphasized eligibility for greenbelted active agricultural operations, required best management practices, and the program’s role in protecting food supply, water resources, habitat, and military buffering. Officials said the program’s 2025 ranked list includes 428 projects, with about 75 projects expected to start this year, and noted strong partnership funding from federal, local, and conservation partners. Committee members asked about eligibility, annual re-ranking, local government involvement, and the number of projects likely to receive funding.
Tracy Dean of Conservation Florida testified in support of continued and increased funding for land conservation, arguing that Florida is losing agricultural and natural lands and that conservation easements and fee-simple acquisitions are complementary tools. She said land trusts work with willing landowners to protect ranches, wetlands, forests, and wildlife corridors, and stressed the importance of maintaining momentum so projects do not stall as land values rise. In discussion with senators, she said public access to conserved lands depends on the specific deal and the landowner’s goals, and that access is more commonly provided through lands acquired for parks, forests, and other public green space.
The Department of Environmental Protection then updated the committee on the Florida Forever program. DEP said the program uses both conservation easements and fee-simple acquisitions, with about half of acquisitions done through easements, and that it provides benefits including water quality, habitat protection, recreation, and military readiness. Officials reported 60 projects on the 2025-26 work plan, most in the Florida Wildlife Corridor, and said the state has invested more than $1.4 billion since 2019, acquiring over 374,000 acres. They highlighted recent acquisitions for Sandy Creek State Forest, Catfish Creek Preserve State Park, and a new state park in Walton County, as well as the program’s 200th conservation easement. The committee also discussed funding levels, payment in lieu of taxes impacts on small counties, and broader priorities such as citrus, roads, and support for agriculture; no votes were taken, and the meeting ended with adjournment.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Feb 6th, 2026 at 04:27 pm
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- I mean, I think the PILT, you know, it's supposed to be at market rate, you know, what we would generate
- Chair, Representative Dow, you know, I understand the PILT payments.
- Chair, Representative Dow, you know, I understand the PILT payments.
- They don't pay PILT. They don't pay nothing.
Committee:
House House Appropriations & Finance
Keywords:
general appropriation, budget, Medicaid, education funding, public safety, SB193, acequia, community ditch, irrigation works construction fund, water infrastructure, ditch infrastructure, irrigation, New Mexico water law, agricultural water, farmers, Rio Grande, acequia association, forest land protection revolving fund, state fund transfer, irrigation projects