Bills: HB97 , HB455 , HB97 , HB455

Committee: House State Government

Keywords: absentee ballot, voting, elections, voter registration, electoral process, defective affidavit, voting rights, HB455, Clarke County, coroner, coroner's office, county commission, local act, local legislation, mileage reimbursement, county vehicle, office expenses, operating expenses, retroactive ratification, remedial and curative

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• possibly by individuals accessing lower-cost behavioral health crisis services in lieu of possibly more expensive
• the ED to have a tooth pulled there by someone who is not trained for that, and it is much more expensive
• That's provided for payment of extraordinary medical and dental expenses of firemen and law enforcement
• That's provided for payment of extraordinary medical and dental expenses of firemen and law enforcement

Bills: HB12 , HB145 , HB222 , HB291 , HB430 , HB821 , HB874 , HB909 , HB951 , HB979 , HB1193

Committee: Senate Finance

Keywords: survivor benefits, law enforcement, reserve officer, auxiliary officer, public safety, firefighters, medical expenses, dental expenses, disability benefits, Medicaid, dental coverage, healthcare access, medical necessity, Louisiana Department of Health, health insurance, survivors benefits, Lafayette, school security, nonprofit security, emergency preparedness

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• If you compare the two, it is more expensive to keep them in the NICU unit during the withdrawal versus
• I realize this is an expensive amendment, but the summer Running Start program is vital to students completing
• I know it's expensive, but the return on investment, I think, is real. Senator Trudeau. Thank you.

Bills: SB5998

Committee: Senate Ways & Means

Keywords: fiscal appropriations, budget, state funding, financial management, operating expenses

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• Again, these are mandatory expenses, which came in net at $3.7 billion.
• return to furthering my education, I rely on the support for tuition, transportation, and basic expenses
• I rely on the support for tuition, transportation, and basic expenses.
• this programming statewide, and this will then balloon out into all of our communities as further expense
• It shifts costs to emergency systems, hospitals, and long-term care at a far greater expense.

Bills: SB5998

Committee: Senate Ways & Means

Keywords: fiscal appropriations, budget, state funding, financial management, operating expenses

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• So our team worked very, very diligently to sort of scrub administrative expenses and really drill down
• So our team worked very, very diligently to sort of scrub administrative expenses and really drill down
• One is declining enrollment, and a close second is increasing MSOC expenses, with the expenses not keeping
• I think we're not keeping track of our expenses.
• This is attributable to already minimizing every expense that can be minimized.

Bills: SB5998

Committee: Senate Ways & Means

Keywords: fiscal appropriations, budget, state funding, financial management, operating expenses

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• opportunity to receive reimbursement for their share of the reasonable and necessary health care expenses
• This bill ensures that a father receives credit for any expenses that have been previously paid.
• Excuse me, postnatal expenses are approximately $20,000 per mother.
• this, there are no guardrails on the equitable portion of. all prenatal and postnatal health care expenses
• It may not be appropriate for the father to have to pay, for example, out-of-network expenses if the

Bills: SB387 , SB1335 , HB1671 , SB1760 , SB1839 , SB1923 , HB1928 , HB4942 , HB5628 , HB5642 , HB1980

Committee: House S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships

Keywords: judicial bond, guardianship, probate law, county judge, statutory county court, estates, inheritance, representative duties, court authority, personal representative, retroactive child support, parentage, genetic testing, family code, child's conception, incapacitated persons, court proceedings, guardianship fees, estate management, probate

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• My administration is committed to preventing American taxpayers from funding expensive and unreliable
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Bills: HR504 , HR131

Keywords: committee removal, federal indictment, ethics, congressional conduct, representative McIver, Committee on Ethics, expenses, Congress, funding, government oversight

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• This should help our courts reduce expenses and the burden of providing notice, allowing them to act
• Property owners can incur expensive legal fees just to clear these fraudulent claims.
• So, again, the idea behind this was to avoid the expense for that defrauded individual.
• deed involves either a trespass to try title lawsuit or a quiet title lawsuit, both of which are expensive
• The process can be challenging and expensive for handling title.

Bills: SB302 , SB1335 , SB1734 , SB1760 , SB1975 , SB2127

Committee: Senate Jurisprudence

Keywords: probate court, statutory judge, reimbursement, court costs, court proceedings, judicial assignments, judge assignment, cost reimbursement, judicial expenses, estate management, statutory requirement, court expenses, estates, inheritance, representative duties, court authority, personal representative, real property, deed fraud, title fraud

Summary: The committee heard several probate, family law, judicial, property, and contract-related bills. Senate Bill 1335, relating to decedents’ estates, would remove outdated references to a clerk’s certificate, allow courts to remove personal representatives on their own motion with notice by qualified delivery method, and add independent administrators to provisions that referenced only independent executors; an estate-planning attorney testified in support, and the bill was left pending. Senate Bill 1760, concerning guardianship transfer fees and procedures, was described as setting a $45 filing fee for transferred guardianship cases and clarifying completion and dismissal procedures; it received no testimony and was left pending. Senate Bill 2127 would shorten the eligibility period for retired judges to serve as visiting judges from eight years to six, restrict practice in their assigned region for two years, and require conflict-related certification; it also was left pending without testimony. Senate Bill 302 would shift the cost of a traveling probate judge to the requesting estate or parties rather than the county; one witness registered in favor, no one testified, and the bill was left pending. The committee then considered a committee substitute for Senate Bill 252, which would clarify the parental presumption in conservatorship cases, require non-parents seeking relief against a parent to file an affidavit showing significant impairment to the child if relief is denied, require courts to state specific findings when overcoming the presumption, confirm the clear-and-convincing standard, and clarify that agreed prior orders do not defeat the presumption. The substitute was explained as consensus language from a work group, public testimony was reopened, and the bill was left pending. Senate Bill 1734, on deed fraud, would create a streamlined ex parte process for property owners to have fraudulent deeds declared void, modeled on the fraudulent lien statute; county clerk and title association representatives testified that it would provide a low-cost self-help remedy for a growing problem, and the bill was left pending subject to the chair. Senate Bill 1975 would prevent Texas contractors from being forced to litigate disputes in foreign jurisdictions and require disputes to be handled in the county where the project is located; it was presented as a repeat of a previously vetoed bill and was left pending. Finally, the committee took up a substitute for Senate Bill 1940, concerning transfer-on-death style beneficiary designations for manufactured homes. The substitute would allow one or more beneficiaries instead of only one, transfer the interest to surviving designated beneficiaries who survive by 120 hours, extend the application period for transfer to 365 days, void the designation if not timely filed, and require mailing by certified or registered mail with return receipt requested. The substitute was adopted without objection. The committee then recessed subject to the call of the chair.

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• that they got a bit ahead of the grant process and what was set in place by MDE, so they had some expenses
• that they got a bit ahead of the grant process and what was set in place by MDE, so they had some expenses
• Working with MDE, this legislation allows the school district to go back and make sure those expenses
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Bills: HF1 , HF779 , HF1034

Committee: House Education Finance

Keywords: Office of Inspector General, inspector general, legislative audit, fraud prevention, waste and abuse, public funds, grant oversight, state grants, grant management, whistleblower protection, retaliation, subpoena power, data practices, government transparency, accountability, law enforcement referrals, sanctions, debarment, payment withholding, public assistance fraud

Bills: HF3490 , HF4040

Committee: Senate Education Finance

Keywords: education finance, scholarship-granting organizations, charitable purposes, student scholarships, nonpublic schools, K-12 education, tax credit, advance payment, Minnesota tax law, child education expenses, taxpayer assistance

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• So you can't move to a more expensive home, but if you move to a home that is equal value or less, you
• expenses.
• We want the money to be used for these medical expenses, for them to be made whole.
• This deals with the situation where the jury ends up awarding too much for future medical expenses.
• The burden of proof is more likely than not that a plaintiff is going to incur these medical expenses

Bills: HB79 , HB437 , HB646 , HB1089 , HB1099 , SB173 , SB180 , SB260 , SB424 , SB476

Committee: House Civil Law and Procedure

Keywords: expert witness, expert testimony, witness fees, pecuniary interest, conflict of interest, civil procedure, evidence law, Louisiana evidence code, Louisiana civil litigation, expert report, discovery, pretrial disclosure, litigation transparency, settlement, damages award, treating physician, medical expert, forensic expert, civil court, criminal court exception

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• So, just an expense that was going out.
• Those expenses start in utero.
• that come... ...know the types of expenses that come prior to a child being born.
• There aren't going to be any expenses related to a child even before they know they're pregnant.
• And again, those expenses for that viable birth do not start once that baby is born; they start prior

Bills: SB156 , SB134 , SB108 , SB47 , SB88 , SB89 , SB106 , SB18 , SB9 , HB38 , HB54

Committee: Senate Judiciary

Keywords: habitual felony offender, resentencing, Alabama Department of Corrections, victim notification, criminal justice reform, life sentences, parole eligibility, pardon, parole, law enforcement, GPS monitoring, data sharing, mail theft, stolen mail, criminal penalties, personally identifying information, felony, misdemeanor, SB47, Alabama

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• and in the environments where I come from, the house gets torn down and they build larger, more expensive

Bills: H5314

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Housing

Keywords: condominium conversion, co-owned property, tenants in common, two-unit building, duplex, partition action, Land Court, chapter 183A, chapter 241, master deed, shared ownership, housing, property law, real estate, easements, common areas, common expenses, condominium ownership, small multifamily housing

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• In addition, some expenses can be paid from interest earnings directly from the trust fund.
• That includes medical and legal expenses to protect the fund or that are incurred in compliance with
• Under this bill, the temporary expansion for administrative expenses is made permanent.
• This bill is a simple and expensive way to do just that.
• And I have to tell you, Senator Conway, health care is very expensive.

Bills: SB5834 , SB5835 , SB5883 , SB5905 , SB6151 , SB6163 , SB6177 , SB6173

Committee: Senate Ways & Means

Keywords: Washington retirement systems, retirement trust funds, interest earnings, public employee retirement system, teachers retirement system, state patrol retirement system, judicial retirement system, judges retirement system, school employees retirement system, public safety employees retirement system, law enforcement officers and firefighters retirement system, PERS, TRS, LERS, legal expenses, medical expenses, administrative expenses, fraud prevention, overpayment recovery, trust fund protection

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• A credit is allowed against the state payroll expense tax for any eligible city payroll expense tax paid
• The amount of the credit is equal to the total amount of eligible city payroll expense tax remitted to
• Fifty-one percent of the revenues from the payroll expense tax would be deposited in this account.
• And these are companies that are also going to be able to deduct payroll tax expenses from their federal
• Before, if you were an employer that had 20 employees and $7 million worth of payroll expenses, now it

Bills: HB2334 , HB2140 , HB2326 , HB2100

Committee: House Finance

Keywords: cash transactions, pennies, currency adjustment, economic impact, consumer protection, tax exemption, governmental transfer, agriculture, land use, property tax, emergency medical services, levies, healthcare funding, local government, taxation, excise tax, large companies, payroll expenses, minimum wage, Well Washington fund

Bills: HB1

Committee: Senate Senate Finance

Keywords: feed bill, legislative appropriations, legislative branch, New Mexico Legislature, general fund, legislative council service, legislative finance committee, legislative education study committee, house chief clerk, senate chief clerk, per diem, mileage, session expenses, interim committees, district staff, capitol complex, capital outlay data system, legislative processing system, redistricting, census redistricting

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• On the expenses, the executive increased personnel cost by...
• And the 400 expenses is the other place that you'll see an increase there.
• Mostly this is litigation expenses.
• It's the medical expenses, you know, and compensatory. Mr. Chair, thank you.
• But this is not an expense. It's an investment in our democracy.

Bills: HB1

Committee: House House Appropriations & Finance

Keywords: feed bill, legislative appropriations, legislative branch, New Mexico Legislature, general fund, legislative council service, legislative finance committee, legislative education study committee, house chief clerk, senate chief clerk, per diem, mileage, session expenses, interim committees, district staff, capitol complex, capital outlay data system, legislative processing system, redistricting, census redistricting

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• medical malpractice cases, and requiring payments from the patient's compensation fund to be made as expenses
• medical malpractice claim, requiring payments from the patient's compensation fund to be made as expenses
• medical malpractice claim, requiring payments from the patient's compensation fund to be made as expenses
• medical malpractice claim, requiring payments from the patient's compensation fund to be made as expenses
• House Bill 1, commonly known as the feed bill, includes appropriations for the expenses of the 2026 legislative

Bills: HB1

Keywords: feed bill, legislative appropriations, legislative branch, New Mexico Legislature, general fund, legislative council service, legislative finance committee, legislative education study committee, house chief clerk, senate chief clerk, per diem, mileage, session expenses, interim committees, district staff, capitol complex, capital outlay data system, legislative processing system, redistricting, census redistricting

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• if the project doesn't start within three years, that project is probably 20 to 25 percent more expensive
• You know, it's construction is more expensive in Vegas.
• So as startups spin out of the universities, right, how do they get access to expensive equipment that

Bills: HB1 , HB1

Committees: Senate Senate Finance , Senate House Appropriations & Finance

Keywords: feed bill, legislative appropriations, legislative branch, New Mexico Legislature, general fund, legislative council service, legislative finance committee, legislative education study committee, house chief clerk, senate chief clerk, per diem, mileage, session expenses, interim committees, district staff, capitol complex, capital outlay data system, legislative processing system, redistricting, census redistricting

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• So Sections 1 and 2 are appropriations for the expenses as of the 2026 regular session.
• expense, and then the Legislative Council would vote on that item.
• On looking at a spreadsheet, it shows the district staff office expense.
• The House for expenses not itemized. I'm just curious. Mr.
• I want to know what the unitemized expenses are. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Exactly.

Bills: HB1

Committee: House House Appropriations & Finance

Keywords: feed bill, legislative appropriations, legislative branch, New Mexico Legislature, general fund, legislative council service, legislative finance committee, legislative education study committee, house chief clerk, senate chief clerk, per diem, mileage, session expenses, interim committees, district staff, capitol complex, capital outlay data system, legislative processing system, redistricting, census redistricting