Video & Transcript Research : 'bond interest rate'
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AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Feb 4th, 2026
Boards, Agencies and Commissions
Transcript Highlights:
- We're updating the language regarding shy bonds. Those will be phased out.
- You have shy bonds to get your license, then you're grandfathered in.
- You have shy bonds to get your license, then you're grandfathered in.
- junk bonds issued by insurance companies.
- junk bonds issued by insurance companies.
Bills:
HB150
Keywords:
improvement district, special assessment, assessment lien, public infrastructure, bond financing, bond interest rate, county commission, tax assessor, tax collector, judge of probate, ad valorem tax, tax lien, tax sale, foreclosure, delinquent taxes, municipal finance, public improvements, infrastructure financing, collection enforcement, property lien
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Mar 18th, 2025
County and Municipal Government
Transcript Highlights:
- You know, there's sort of two different worlds in this bond market, municipal... ...this bond market,
- municipal bond market.
- I spoke to different organizations and special interest groups that had interest in advertising.
- this as high Guard has rated this as high risk.
- Well, then they were given a high-risk rating.
Keywords:
vehicle registration, disability access, fines, law enforcement, public accommodation, bond financing, municipal bonds, county debt, local government debt, debt service schedule, bond disclosure, public finance, bond underwriter, county commission, city council, refunding bonds, swap agreements, interest rate swaps, derivatives, fiscal transparency
TX
Texas 89th Regular
89th Legislative Session - Second Called Session Aug 16th, 2025
Texas House Floor Meeting
Keywords:
appropriations, funding, budget, state finance, public services, public education, teacher compensation, certification, school finance, educator rights, education funding, charter schools, staff compensation, state aid, retention allotment, rural health, hospital funding, healthcare access, mental health services, financial stability
TX
Texas 89th Regular
89th Legislative Session - First Called Session Aug 14th, 2025
Texas House Floor Meeting
Keywords:
appropriations, funding, budget, state finance, public services, public education, teacher compensation, certification, school finance, educator rights, education funding, charter schools, staff compensation, state aid, retention allotment, rural health, hospital funding, healthcare access, mental health services, financial stability
TX
Texas 89th Regular
89th Legislative Session - First Called Session Aug 13th, 2025
Texas House Floor Meeting
Keywords:
appropriations, funding, budget, state finance, public services, public education, teacher compensation, certification, school finance, educator rights, education funding, charter schools, staff compensation, state aid, retention allotment, rural health, hospital funding, healthcare access, mental health services, financial stability
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health Mar 20th, 2025
S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health
Transcript Highlights:
- And so it's just any interest because it was 3% if you own that much of a food company, that is a whole
- rather than the best interests of the people for the people.
- They allow industry to rate and in the food industry, they have generally accepted safe products.
- How do we keep, if we do it in Texas, how do we prevent those conflicts of interest?
- That really goes to the depths of the conflicts of interest on all of this.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- What inflation rate are we using?
- This is a notification even if you're not planning on raising the tax rate.
- OK, now the bond databases are set up through the bond board.
- You generally set your rates by...
- Kelly Rasty: We took an interesting approach.
Keywords:
property tax, school funding, enrollment changes, inflation adjustment, tax rate notice, property tax exemption, ad valorem tax, Texas Tax Code, nonprofit corporation, charitable organization, educational nonprofit, scientific nonprofit, agriculture support, youth programs, community education, county population threshold, large county, local government revenue, leasehold interest, possessory interest
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- What inflation rate are we using?
- Even if you're not planning on raising the tax rate?
- Well, we don't know what the tax rate is going to be because the tax rate should be going down as the
- Now the bond databases are set up through the bond board.
- You all do set your rates much earlier than everybody else. You generally set your rates by now?
Keywords:
property tax, school funding, enrollment changes, inflation adjustment, tax rate notice, property tax exemption, ad valorem tax, Texas Tax Code, nonprofit corporation, charitable organization, educational nonprofit, scientific nonprofit, agriculture support, youth programs, community education, county population threshold, large county, local government revenue, leasehold interest, possessory interest
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- in than a tax rate increase.
- The rate was called the rollback tax rate.
- Interesting.
- The crime rate will go up. I'm at a record low crime rate.
- How many of those 12 years was the tax rate set at the no new revenue rate?
Keywords:
property tax, school funding, enrollment changes, inflation adjustment, tax rate notice, property tax exemption, ad valorem tax, Texas Tax Code, nonprofit corporation, charitable organization, educational nonprofit, scientific nonprofit, agriculture support, youth programs, community education, county population threshold, large county, local government revenue, leasehold interest, possessory interest
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- It's always interesting. I mean.
- The purpose of this bill to make sure that a person that's on bond stays on bond or has it forfeited
- Your client has a bond violation, the, the, the, the, uh, the bonding company wants to get off of the
- bond.
- Like how come the bond is so low?
Bills:
HB47
Keywords:
HB 47, Texas Tax Code, ad valorem taxes, property tax, voter-approval tax rate, tax rate election, taxing unit, injunction, taxpayer rights, property owner, local government finance, tax refund, attorney's fees, court costs, voter-approved tax increase, tax reform, municipal taxes, county taxes, school district taxes, bond election
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Do the bond rating agencies, is there a number that they look at with respect to?
- . on the CO, thus reducing borrowing costs and interest rates.
- Instead of issuing TIF bonds with a separate or at lower credit rating, we secure a better interest rate
- are lowered, this results in higher interest rate on those bonds, and the cost of that interest... increase
- problem of the unequal interest rates between refunds and assessments.
Bills:
HB19, HB30, HB851, HB1663, HB1681, HB1769, HB1937, HB1979, HB2428, HB2433, HB2825, HB3159, HB3424, HB3486, HB3487, HB3504, HB3605, HB3879, HB3994, HB4382, HB4752, HB5444, HB5446, HB5447, HB3199, HB4847, HB19
Keywords:
local government debt, property tax, ad valorem tax, bond election, certificate of obligation, anticipation note, school district tax rate, voter-approval rate, debt service cap, municipal finance, county bonds, flood control district, hospital district, public works, tax transparency, property tax notice, November uniform election date, general obligation bonds, local debt reform, taxpayer notice
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- above the voter approval tax rate for a specific purpose.
- Taxpayers have raised concerns that taxing units re-propose bond propositions and tax rate increases
- setting and bond issuance process.
- Built into that bill was what we call an unused increment rate.
- That rate allowed a taxing entity that adopted a rate below the cutoff to... ...be able to bank the difference
Keywords:
municipal sales tax, street maintenance, local option tax, Tax Code Chapter 327, sales and use tax, street repair, sidewalk maintenance, water infrastructure, wastewater system, stormwater system, local election, ballot language, reauthorization, municipal finance, infrastructure funding, Texas municipalities, street and sidewalk tax, special district tax, public works, property tax
TX
Texas 89th Regular
89th Legislative Session - First Called Session Aug 12th, 2025
Texas House Floor Meeting
Bills:
HB1, HB2, HB18, HB19, HB20, HB4, HB1, HB2, HB18, HB19, HB20, HB 1, HB 2, HB 18, HB 19, HB 20, HB 4
Keywords:
disaster response, emergency management, mass fatality, justices of the peace, training programs, emergency manager license, volunteer management, justice of the peace training, criminal history checks, state health services, emergency communication, interoperability, grant program, first responders, state council, broadband, public safety, disaster preparedness, funding, flood disaster plan
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Tax rates change every year.
- So aside from the M&O rate, but if and to the extent you have an I&S rate on your bonds, you may have
- And could that potentially also affect your bond rating?
- I don't have tax credits, bonds.
- They make determinations regarding bonds and the issuance of bonds and all those types of things that
Keywords:
HB 21, Texas Tax Code, ad valorem tax, property tax, delinquent taxes, tax delinquency, penalty reduction, interest rate, split payment, installment payment, tax relief, county tax collector, taxing unit, property owner, tax collection, voter-approval tax rate, no-new-revenue tax rate, tax increase election, supermajority, 60 percent threshold
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Legislature through the years that have looked at the rate of return and the interest rates on the ESF
- A $5 billion investment at that rate earns about $210 million.
- But high interest rates and tight capital markets are making it harder than ever for startups to raise
- What's the rate of return on that?
- There's also a section in here about conflicts of interest.
Keywords:
Texas Future Fund, investment review board, economic stabilization, innovative technology, national defense, HB 2054, Texas volunteer fire department assistance fund, Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program, volunteer fire departments, wildfire mitigation, wildland fire, rural fire protection, insurer assessment, insurance premium tax, state appropriations, firefighting grants, emergency services, high-risk wildfire areas, Texas Comptroller, Texas Government Code
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Commerce Committee Meeting - 2025-03-27
Commerce Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- The first is around a defunct mortgage maximum interest rate.
- Every month, the department publishes the maximum interest rate that lenders can...
- The maximum interest rate is the maximum interest rate that the government can charge for certain types
- is the maximum interest rate that...
- Oh, there is a maximum interest rate, and under the setup right here, that interest rate is a prime alpha
Keywords:
financial institutions, insurance regulation, insurance holding company, group capital calculation, liquidity stress test, NAIC, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, insurer solvency, affiliate transactions, groupwide supervision, internationally active insurance group, lead state commissioner, policyholder protection, hazardous financial condition, deposit or bond, contract for deed, conventional loan, cooperative apartment loan, mortgage interest rate cap, average prime offer rate
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/27/25
Commerce Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- maximum interest rates.
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became interest rates under this section became interest rates under this section - used maximum interest rate that is used used maximum interest rate that is used by<00:03:47.840>
- No, there is a maximum interest rate, and under the setup right here, that interest rate is a prime offer
Keywords:
financial institutions, insurance regulation, insurance holding company, group capital calculation, liquidity stress test, NAIC, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, insurer solvency, affiliate transactions, groupwide supervision, internationally active insurance group, lead state commissioner, policyholder protection, hazardous financial condition, deposit or bond, contract for deed, conventional loan, cooperative apartment loan, mortgage interest rate cap, average prime offer rate
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Are you able, if you could just, and I don't know if anybody else is interested, but I'd be interested
- Because the bonding company wants to surrender the bond. Right. And are you defense counsel? Yeah.
- Is the purpose of this bill to make sure that a person that's on bond stays on bond?
- The bonding company wants to get off of the bond. I mean, I'm not aware where they have to do it.
- Like, how come the bond is so low?
Keywords:
sexual assault, victim rights, forensic examination, medical care, trauma-informed care, crime victims compensation, evidence retention, child sexual abuse material, child pornography, digital services, reporting requirements, children's protection, sex offender registration, indecent assault, educator-student relationship, criminal justice, legislation, crime victims, compensation fund, information disclosure
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama Senate State Governmental Affairs Committee Feb 19th, 2025
State Governmental Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- work in government and you make a certain amount of money, you have to file a statement of economic interest
Keywords:
sewer, wastewater, public service commission, PSC, utility regulation, private utility, regulated utility, affiliated system, consolidation, rate jurisdiction, rate setting, wastewater management entity, common ownership, control, Jefferson County Board of Health, local constitutional amendment, public utilities, Alabama Code Title 37, Alabama Code Title 22, certification
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Everything is the same tax rate right now, right? It's the same. Yeah, there's a uniform tax rate.
- Okay, the total amount of tax rate increase was 15 percent.
- body to propose an adoption of maintenance and operations (M&O) rate above the voter approval tax rate
- cents back in 2018. to our current rate of $0.379, which is actually the no-new-revenue rate for the
- They kept the tax rate the same and they say, "Hey, it wasn't us; we kept the tax rate the same."
Bills:
SB467, SB325, SB867, SB994, SB1052, SB1237, SB1449, SB1531, SB2063, SB2172, SB2173, SB2520, SB2529, SB2538, SB2541, SJR46, SJR84
Keywords:
SB 467, Texas property tax, ad valorem tax, homestead exemption, residence homestead, fire damage, house fire, destroyed home, temporary tax relief, appraisal district, chief appraiser, local taxing unit, tax rollback, tax refund, Tax Code Chapter 11, prorated exemption, homestead improvement, disaster relief, property tax exemption, residential property