Video & Transcript Research : 'Ways & Means'
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MS
Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Ways and Means - Room 113, Sept. 23, 2025; 1:30 PM
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Transportation and Energy Committee Apr 2nd, 2026
Transportation and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- The private right-of-ways right-of-ways.
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- . right-of-way. right-of-way.
Bills:
HB542
Keywords:
HB542, district attorney, prosecutor, supernumerary district attorney, Employees' Retirement System, ERS, Alabama retirement, public employee retirement, pension, retirement benefits, post-retirement employment, salary cap, dual participation, double dipping, District Attorneys' Plan, assistant district attorney, deputy district attorney, state pension, survivor benefits, Office of Prosecution Services
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I mean, taxing entity employees, and I would not want to be a taxpayer who had to file appraisal protests
- Is there any way we could make an amendment to your...
- I mean, certainly, a school district should not...
- And out of ways and means last session, but not out of the Senate this year.
Keywords:
ad valorem tax, property tax, incomplete structure, human occupancy, tax exemption, HB 5578, Texas Tax Code, Section 6.062, appraisal district, county appraisal district, chief appraiser, budget hearing, public notice, notice of hearing, newspaper publication, website notice, social media notice, online newspaper, county government, property appraisal
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee May 1st, 2025
Finance and Taxation General Fund
Keywords:
state employees, meal allowance, per diem, travel expenses, Alabama law, HB542, district attorney, prosecutor, supernumerary district attorney, Employees' Retirement System, ERS, Alabama retirement, public employee retirement, pension, retirement benefits, post-retirement employment, salary cap, dual participation, double dipping, District Attorneys' Plan
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
State Committee Meeting - 2025-04-01
State Government Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- But also, one of the things that we've heard about the best way to represent Davis is that the best way
- The practice has always been that the Chair of Ways and Means has sort of delegated that authority to
- the fiscal staff so that the Chair of Ways and Means and the Chair of the committees don't have to manage
- Is going to be to Ways and Means. We're going to lay it over instead for possible inclusion.
- and Means.
Keywords:
HF627, fiscal note, fiscal notes, Minnesota Legislature, state government, committee procedure, ranking minority member, minority party, standing committee, Ways and Means, Finance Committee, legislative process, budget analysis, fiscal impact, Minnesota Statutes 3.98, committee chair, legislative transparency, HF474, Hubert H. Humphrey, Henry Mower Rice
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 4/1/25
State Government Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- fiscal staff so that the chair of Ways and Means and the chair of the committees don't have to manage
- House File 361 and that referral is going to be to Ways and Means.
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justay <00:58:39.200>we're Ways and Means I we're justay we're Ways and - The reason House File 361 is intended to be a vehicle bill that will go to Ways and Means.
- Please proceed to your bill as amended. will go to Ways and Means the reason I'm will go to Ways and
Keywords:
HF627, fiscal note, fiscal notes, Minnesota Legislature, state government, committee procedure, ranking minority member, minority party, standing committee, Ways and Means, Finance Committee, legislative process, budget analysis, fiscal impact, Minnesota Statutes 3.98, committee chair, legislative transparency, HF474, Hubert H. Humphrey, Henry Mower Rice
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- You can move it across the way. The plan is this, one of the many plans for our semi-centennial.
- So these are on the way, and I just want to give you all a heads up.
Keywords:
SJR 2, Senate Joint Resolution 2, constitutional amendment, homestead exemption, property tax relief, school property tax, ad valorem tax, residence homestead, school district taxes, Texas Constitution Article VIII, public school finance, homeowner exemption, elderly exemption, senior tax relief, disabled exemption, tax year 2025, voter approval, November 2025 ballot, local government, Ways & Means
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Press Conference: Lt. Governor Dan Patrick Feb 12th, 2025
Texas Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- As he said, the best way I learn is to hear personal stories.
- I mean, we passed these bills almost unanimously.
- House support on this because, as I've said before, this has come out of the Senate in a bipartisan way
- If all the House Republicans are on board, that means you would need a dozen or so Democrats.
- There are lots of ways to kill a bill: points of order, slowing it down.
Keywords:
SJR 2, Senate Joint Resolution 2, constitutional amendment, homestead exemption, property tax relief, school property tax, ad valorem tax, residence homestead, school district taxes, Texas Constitution Article VIII, public school finance, homeowner exemption, elderly exemption, senior tax relief, disabled exemption, tax year 2025, voter approval, November 2025 ballot, local government, Ways & Means
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- To the Senate floor, Coastal Bend is more than just a region, it's a way of life for many great people
- I mean, they have done such a great job, providing the. leadership, working together to make this area
- So what does that mean to our constituents? It means that people we represent.
Keywords:
SJR 2, Senate Joint Resolution 2, constitutional amendment, homestead exemption, property tax relief, school property tax, ad valorem tax, residence homestead, school district taxes, Texas Constitution Article VIII, public school finance, homeowner exemption, elderly exemption, senior tax relief, disabled exemption, tax year 2025, voter approval, November 2025 ballot, local government, Ways & Means
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Feb 4th, 2026
Ways and Means Education
Transcript Highlights:
- when we say subject to does that mean when we say subject to does that mean they<00:22:41.840>
- provide the annual dedicated I mean provide the annual dedicated I mean funding<00:23:20.400>
- So I'd be fine either way.
- I'd be fine either way. I'd be fine either way.
- I do lean for opinion either way.
- provide the annual dedicated I mean provide the annual dedicated I mean funding<00:23:20.400>
Keywords:
HB187, court fees, docket fee, sheriff's fund, sheriff's office, jail operations, law enforcement, county sheriff, court filing fees, Alabama Code 12-19-312, solicitor's fund, clerk's fund, forensic services trust fund, budget flexibility, public safety, municipal court, district court, circuit court, cosmetology, makeup application
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Happy to be back and to be with the Ways and Means Committee. Thank you so much.
- Chairman, members, Vince Perez, research analyst for Ways and Means.
- Blattman, Vince Perez, Ways and Means research analyst...
- Chairman, members, Connor, House Ways and Means intern.
- I'm Vince Perez, research analyst for Ways and Means.
Keywords:
tax penalties, filing, tax returns, administration, Arizona Revised Statutes, agricultural property, classification, county assessor, property inspection, appeal process, property tax, agricultural classification, Department of Revenue, property valuation, inspection notice, inspection report, on-site inspection, full cash value, rural land, farm land
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The only way that the...
- I was actually committee counsel to Ways and Means in 1979, so I've been around the block a few times
- Seventy-nine, when I was at Ways and Means, each of the taxing units did their own assessment.
- Chairman, additional help is on the way.
- What does that mean? That means you don't have any extra money when you get your bills.
Keywords:
property tax, homestead exemption, school funding, state aid, constitutional amendment, SJR 2, Senate Joint Resolution 2, property tax relief, school property tax, ad valorem tax, residence homestead, school district taxes, Texas Constitution Article VIII, public school finance, homeowner exemption, elderly exemption, senior tax relief, disabled exemption, tax year 2025, voter approval
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- And we hold our guidance standards to such a high standard that other countries are either on the way
- We hold our guidance standards to such a high standard that other countries are either on the way or
- Our guidance standards are held to such a high standard that other countries are either on the way or
- I mean given what your testimony that?
- Would that be a way that emergencies.
Bills:
SB2064, SB2662, SB2862, SB2343, SB2075, SB2781, SB2927, SB3068, SB3015, SB2929, SB2938, SB3230, SB3249, SB3332, SB3216
Keywords:
state architect, construction projects, design approvals, building codes, state agency oversight, government accountability, external consultants, procurement reform, cost efficiency, in-house expertise, gubernatorial appointments, senate confirmation, executive branch, accountability, civil service, SB2343, Hawaii Legislature, regular session, lengthened session, continuous legislature
Summary:
The committee met on February 12, 2026, to take decision-making on measures previously heard earlier in the month. Several bills were deferred indefinitely or set for later discussion, including SB 2064 on the Office of the State Architect, SB 3068 on procurement, and SB 3216 after its contents were moved into another measure. SB 2862 on gubernatorial appointments, SB 2781, and SB 315 were all deferred to Tuesday, February 17 at 3 p.m. in Room 225 for further work. The committee also noted that if technical problems interrupted the meeting, it would reconvene later for outstanding decision-making.
The committee passed SB 2343 on the Legislature with amendments incorporating language from SB 3216, technical changes, and a defective date of 2525. SB 2075 was advanced as a Senate draft 1 after amendments responding to constitutional concerns raised by the attorney general and SPO. SB 2927 on procurement was also passed with amendments clarifying debriefing requirements and adding technical changes, and SB 2938 on search and rescue was amended to place the position in Hima rather than the Governor’s office before being adopted. SB 3249 on procurement protests was amended to remove the term "frivolous," reduce the forfeiture to half the bond amount, and note unresolved issues, then adopted.
The committee also took up SB 3332 on state-funded travel, amending it to remove certain lines, report travel by position number to protect confidentiality, remove subsection G, and add a defective date of 2525; it was adopted. SB 2929 on public notice was amended into a pilot project for counties with populations between 100,000 and 175,000, with a year-end report to the Legislature, and was adopted. Later, the committee returned to SB 2094 on environmental action levels, heard testimony from the Department of Health in support of its current scientific process and from an environmental caucus witness in strong support of the bill’s transparency and petition provisions, and then deferred decision-making to February 17 at 3 p.m. in Room 225.
In the joint hearing portion, SB 3233 on agricultural workforce housing drew generally supportive testimony from ADC, the Farm Bureau, the Chamber of Commerce, the Hawaii Farmers Union, and the State Procurement Office, with concerns focused on clarity, flexibility for smaller farms, and avoiding concentration of benefits in one large operation. The committee ultimately recommended passing SB 3233 with the State Procurement Office’s clarifying amendments and the Hawaii Farmers Union’s amendment to ensure workforce housing incentives benefit multiple farmers, and the measure was adopted.
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- Is that the way? Do I read that correctly? Uh no way? Do I read that correctly? Uh no way?
- Well, it's it's I I mean, seriously, I mean, it's I I mean, seriously, I mean, it's I I mean, seriously
- This is the grocery stores that have to the way that's just the way that have to the way that's just
- That means less tax coming to the state, means less tax coming to the state, means less tax coming to
- I mean, I I I don't know what it's going mean, I I I don't know what it's going mean, I I I don't know
Keywords:
occupation tax, securities, financial regulation, tax exemption, legislative amendment, capital gains tax, realized gains, unrealized gains, investment income, asset sale, capital assets, wealth tax, estate tax, trust tax, tax limitation, constitutional amendment, Texas Constitution, Article VIII, property tax, sales tax
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- H.J.R. 4 was voted unanimously out of the Ways and Means Committee.
- Part of the Committee on Ways and Means.
- and Means.
- and Means.
- and Means.
Keywords:
occupation tax, securities, financial regulation, tax exemption, legislative amendment, capital gains tax, realized gains, unrealized gains, investment income, asset sale, capital assets, wealth tax, estate tax, trust tax, tax limitation, constitutional amendment, Texas Constitution, Article VIII, property tax, sales tax
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I mean, these are hard-working, good people.
- Declining, which means there is less demand.
- Actually, the way it worked is even worse than that.
- I mean, we talk a lot at Every Texan about education.
- The Chair recognizes Representative Troxclair is present. ...and calls on Ways and Means star member.
Bills:
HB 105, HB982, HB1483, HB1508, HB2575, HB3646, HB3993, HB4083, HB4580, HB4725, HB5169, HB5511, HJR73, HJR102, HJR174, HB3746, HB4240
Keywords:
economic development, job creation, energy, tax incentives, technology investment, ad valorem taxes, elderly, disabled, low-income, tax limitation, homesteads, Texas Tax Code, property tax, ad valorem tax, tax exemption, residential real property, home improvement, energy efficiency, energy-efficient upgrades, HVAC
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure Committee Mar 17th, 2026
Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure
Transcript Highlights:
- I don't want to mislead you in any way.
- I we only geted one chance right way."
- This procedure, the way this is done, would not require that company to do that.
- This procedure, the way this is done, would not require that company to do that.
- And this procedure, the way this is And this procedure, the way this is done,<00:38:49.760>
this
Keywords:
HB542, district attorney, prosecutor, supernumerary district attorney, Employees' Retirement System, ERS, Alabama retirement, public employee retirement, pension, retirement benefits, post-retirement employment, salary cap, dual participation, double dipping, District Attorneys' Plan, assistant district attorney, deputy district attorney, state pension, survivor benefits, Office of Prosecution Services
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Senate State Governmental Affairs Committee Feb 25th, 2026
State Governmental Affairs
Keywords:
HB213, Calhoun County, board of registrars, registrar compensation, county commission, local legislation, election administration, county general fund, expense allowance, officeholder compensation, public officials pay, county election officials, Alabama Code 45-8-110, Teacher's Retirement System, TRS, DROP, Deferred Retirement Option Plan, retirement benefits, teacher retirement, classroom teacher
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure Committee Mar 11th, 2026
Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure
Transcript Highlights:
- Utilities are granted access to public right-of-way at no cost and often occupy that public right-of-way
- The only I mean I I have I statement.
- have some concerns in general but I mean have some concerns in general but I mean I<00:59:23.040
- to your potato chip reference but I mean to your potato chip reference but I mean I<00:59:30.480
- The home city meaning where is that plant located?
Keywords:
medical clinic board, clinic board, hospital bankruptcy, Chapter 11, bankruptcy, debt restructuring, municipal indebtedness, municipal bankruptcy, health care provider, acute care hospital, lease property, board immunity, director liability, civil liability, healthcare finance, insolvency, debt readjustment, federal bankruptcy law, Alabama Code 11-58-5.2, library materials
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- House Committee on Ways and Means will now come to order. The clerk will call the roll.
- Good morning, Chairman Meyer, distinguished members of the Ways and Means Committee. It's my...
- I mean, does that mean that they are going to then adjust or have to raise that rate?
- Many reverberations came our way. We're at a standstill, and in many ways, planning was deferred.
- Hearing none, the House Committee on Ways and Means stands adjourned subject to the call of the chair
Bills:
HB511, HB972, HB 1035, HB2481, HB2723, HB2742, HB2894, HB2962, HB3077, HB3093, HB3307, HB3684, HJR67, HJR72
Keywords:
ad valorem taxation, caregiver exemption, Medicaid, long-term services, tax relief, assisted living, housing support, property tax exemption, caregiver support, residence homestead, tax exemption, unpaid caregiver, state tax code, property tax, caregiver, waiting list, intellectual disability, developmental disability, ad valorem tax, family support