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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

EIG-TRS, EIG-JDC Public Hearings 04-07-2026

Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • funded programs, credit, and jury service.
  • funded programs, credit, and jury service.
  • funded programs, credit, and jury service.
  • a lot of pressure of what federal a lot of pressure of what federal government,<00:07:30.520>
  • We do, but this is for at the federal level because we do not at the federal level.
Bills: SCR11, SR9
Summary: The joint committees on Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs, Transportation, and later Judiciary heard two sets of resolutions. The first, SCR 132 and SR 124, urged the City and County of Honolulu to take steps to finalize the Makakilo Drive Extension Project. Testimony from a Makakilo resident emphasized the lack of a second access route and raised safety concerns about being trapped in the area in an emergency. Both committees voted to pass the resolutions unamended. The second set, SCR 11 and SR 9, requested that the U.S. Congress amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in employment, housing, public accommodations, education, federally funded programs, credit, and jury service. Supporters from the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, IMUA Alliance, and Pride at Work in Hawaii argued that stronger anti-discrimination protections are needed to reduce vulnerability to violence, housing insecurity, and exploitation, and to provide federal protections that mirror state law. One senator asked whether state protections already exist and was told the resolutions seek federal-level protections because federal law can supersede state law. Both committees adopted recommendations to pass SCR 11 and SR 9 unamended, with votes in favor and some members excused.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Workforce Apr 1st, 2025

S/C on Workforce

Transcript Highlights:
  • Well, can currently implement the program with no new costs, is that correct? Yes.
  • Measurable objectives are essential to ensuring the success of any program.
  • The Texas Workforce Commission will distribute around 80 million dollars in federal funding for...
  • That's significant, but we lack basic transparency on how those funds are used.
  • Number one, track and report how federal workforce development funds are being used to support young
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Investment Committee 3/25/25

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • federal funding levels and contingent on federal funding levels and and<00:12:15.560> how<00:12
  • > by is a federal program uh established by is a federal program uh established by the<00:41:18.839
  • :43:08.319> a program and funded a little over a program and funded a little over a million<00
  • They had $398,000 of POP funds, $150,000 of federal capital funds, and then they allocated just under
  • are funded programs first they are funded programs first they are permanently<00:54:10.599> affordable
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Taxes Committee 3/6/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • Instead, it builds on the general fund appropriation from 2022, increasing the funding to $22 million
  • Instead, it builds on the general fund appropriation from 2022, increasing the funding to $22 million
  • for our child welfare program, legal department, tribal assistance program, and elder advocates.
  • identified ifed by the federal identified ifed by the federal department<00:53:57.559> of
  • <01:10:27.040> to centers we must ask what funding to centers we must ask what funding to
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • What this is put in place so there's not a risk of a program...
  • consolidation as it relates to low-producing programs.
  • To decide whether or not a program could continue? Yeah.
  • can choose to suspend or delete that program.
  • , there's a shared program, whatever it may be.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee 3/4/26

Elections Finance and Government Operations

Transcript Highlights:
  • There's a number of different provisions related to the funds within the program where we want to insert
  • <00:05:03.840> where<00:05:04.160> we funds within the program um where we funds within
  • She said the community tree planting program is relatively new, with only one round of funding so far
  • That said, we're much more upstream, whereas the housing program review is on the funding side of projects
  • whereas the housing program review is on<00:15:28.399> the<00:15:28.560> funding<00:15:
Summary: The committee met on March 4, 2026, and first approved the minutes from March 2 by voice vote. It then took up several Metropolitan Council agency bills, with members repeatedly moving to lay them over for possible inclusion or, in one case, to re-refer a bill to another committee. The first three bills discussed were House File 3884, House File 3881, and House File 3882, all presented as administrative or programmatic changes intended to streamline Met Council processes. House File 3884 would allow tribal governments and tribal development entities to apply directly for Metropolitan Council Livable Communities Act grants and community tree planting grants, rather than applying through a city or other local government. Testimony from Met Council staff said the bill would simplify access and align the Met Council’s tree-planting program with existing DNR authority. House File 3881 would expand the Met Council’s contracting authority to include small businesses more broadly, require an annual report to the legislature on small-business contracting, and repeal a duplicative statute on certificates of compliance. House File 3882 would make a range of administrative cleanups, including removing an obsolete housing-bond review role, clarifying outdated statutory language, extending the review cycle for metropolitan significance rules from every two years to every 10 years, clarifying reporting and Livable Communities Act provisions, changing regional parks operations-and-maintenance reimbursements to rely on audited financial statements, and clarifying agricultural preserves procedures. The committee also considered House File 3883, which was amended with an A1 amendment before adoption. That bill updates appointments to the Metropolitan Area Water Supply Advisory Committee, known as MOSAC, including direct appointments for certain county representatives and adding a tribal representative appointed by the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, while also cleaning up outdated language and eligibility provisions. A former MOSAC member spoke in support of the committee’s work, and the chair said the bill was common-sense and renewed the motion to lay it over as amended. Finally, the committee began House File 3363, a bill described by the author as a response to safety concerns after the June events, aimed at removing public access to legislators’ home addresses from Campaign Finance Board materials; discussion had just begun when the transcript ended.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 2/17/25

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:18:55.360> of uh funding for the grants programs of uh funding for the grants programs
  • and<00:47:26.960> you uh you know fund our fbn program and you uh you know fund our fbn program
  • He said continued funding and increased funding for this program will help ensure that these instructors
  • He said continued funding and increased funding for this program will help ensure that these instructors
  • Savory, but how much funding is in this program already? Mr.
Bills: HF711, HF653
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee 3/25/26

Elections Finance and Government Operations

Transcript Highlights:
  • The AFL-HIT fund does meet the criteria, but any sufficiently capitalized and federally regulated fund
  • The HIT fund meets these criteria, and any fund can and should, but ultimately the HIT fund is doing
  • fund.
  • Um the funds of the mission of the fund.
  • also<00:25:57.840> meet federally regulated fund could also meet federally regulated fund
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy Committee 3/4/26

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Currently, our statutes just say that students in a publicly funded program for preschool or kindergarten
  • c> the<00:46:14.480> most prioritized funding to the most prioritized funding to the most
  • , level that has opted into this program, level that has opted into this program, um<00:52:56.160
  • <01:01:56.040> to support team using temporary funds to support team using temporary funds
  • to<01:37:40.040> successfully funding to improve to successfully funding to improve to
Bills: HF3776, HF3557, HF3585
Summary: The committee first approved the previous day’s minutes, then took up House File 3776, as amended by the A2 amendment, which clarified how the bill would apply to students with IEPs and 504 plans. The bill’s author argued that Minnesota should address screen time for preschool and kindergarten students, saying current law is too broad, that young children are especially vulnerable to developmental and attention harms from screens, and that parents and teachers should have more control over device use. The bill was laid over after discussion. Testimony on HF 3776 was split. Amanda Faye of Minnetonka Public Schools opposed the bill as drafted, saying it would conflict with existing academic standards, READ Act screening requirements, accessibility tools, and local control, and would force districts back to paper-based screening. Katherine Myers of Live More Screen Less supported the bill, citing concerns about early childhood screen exposure and arguing that screen-free time supports child development. Members raised concerns about local control, parental rights, and how to protect students who need devices for accommodations; the author and nonpartisan staff noted that schools can already adopt cell phone policies, but exceptions may be needed for certain students and uses. After laying over HF 3776, the committee began House File 3557. Representative Craft introduced the bill as a voluntary program to promote practical science education and workforce development tied to climate literacy, including a proposed Minnesota Seal of Climate Literacy for high school students. The bill was only introduced before the transcript ended, with no vote or final action recorded on HF 3557.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/16/2026 - Senate Military Affairs and Border Security

Military Affairs and Border Security

Transcript Highlights:
  • money from that fund.
  • Jen, 11 sheriff offices were awarded funding from the local border support program in fiscal year ...
  • offices were awarded funding from the local border support program in fiscal year 2025 for a total of
  • Those funds that you referenced or the funds that are in this bill? These, the $20 million. So Mr.
  • problematic program that... ...problematic, so I don't understand why we take a problematic program
Summary: The Military Affairs and Border Security Committee approved the February 16, 2026 minutes and then heard several bills. HB 2416 would appropriate $20 million for DPS border support, including equipment, officer positions, and grants to local governments for border-related prosecutions and detention costs. Supporters, including the Arizona Sheriffs Association, said the funds are fully used each year and are largely spent on drug interdiction; opponents argued the bill’s immigration-related language could expand enforcement and that the money should instead go to health care, education, food assistance, or prevention programs. After debate, the committee passed HB 2416 on a 4-3 vote. The committee then considered HB 2806, which would require county recorders, ADOT, and AHCCCS to use the federal SAVE system and report citizenship-verification results to JLBC and the Auditor General. The sponsor was absent, and an ACLU representative testified in opposition, arguing SAVE is not appropriate for voter eligibility checks, could disenfranchise eligible citizens, and would likely cause litigation and administrative confusion. Members raised concerns about necessity, due process, and whether the state already verifies citizenship adequately, but the bill still received a do-pass recommendation on a 4-3 vote. HB 2663, a technical cleanup bill updating military leave language for state and local employees who are National Guard or Reserve members, drew no opposition and passed unanimously. HB 2759 would appropriate $500,000 to the Department of Veterans Services for grants tied to veterans programs at Yavapai County institutions; testimony described it as helping veterans with housing gaps, emergencies, and professional development while they wait for GI Bill payments. Several members questioned why it was limited to Yavapai County and whether private institutions should be included, with some viewing it as a pilot program and others wanting statewide expansion. It passed 4-3, and the committee adjourned.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House County and Municipal Government Committee Feb 19th, 2025

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Types of reports that are required either by state law or by federal law.
  • Something for community grants and the funding that you get to a DEA will be placed on hold.
  • There are about 600 state, federal, local, and county agencies. This is only...
  • then some of these... ...agencies now that they have police department authorities are not even a funding
  • We give schools grades, we change how they're funded based on grades, and we take over schools if… based
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • There is $1.5 billion in new special education funding.
  • Funding more than any other piece of legislation prior to this.
  • Another investment in Texas classrooms is more funding for emergent bilingual programs, for Pre-K, and
  • critically needed targeted funding for special education.
  • That's why we make investments in a "Grow Your Own" program.
Summary: The meeting primarily revolved around the discussion of HB2, which aims to increase funding for public education in Texas. Key points included enhancements to teacher salaries, special education funding, and initiatives to support emergent bilingual programs. Legislators highlighted the need for collaboration and leadership in addressing the challenges faced by public schools, noting the vital role that education plays in the state's future. Speaker Burroughs expressed confidence in achieving significant improvements for Texas students through this legislation, which has been deemed one of the most consequential bills of the session.
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations - Education and Environment Division Apr 16th, 2025 at 09:00 am

Appropriations - Education and Environment Division

Transcript Highlights:
  • Was there a change made on the internship program?
  • Committee, this is an amendment having to do with the replacement program, the drone replacement program
  • However, what this will do is that if the SIF fund reaches, exceeds, is that if the SIF fund reaches,
  • Most of these programs have been ongoing programs.
  • And these programs have been successful.
Bills: SB2018
Summary: The E&E Committee met to finalize action on Senate Bill 2018, the Commerce Department budget. Members reviewed several funding lines and made verbal adjustments, including reducing tourism marketing awareness to $5 million, keeping Operation Intern at $2 million, restoring the Destination Development Fund to $20 million, setting Autonomous Agriculture Grants/Grand Farm at $10 million, and reducing the WIP Regional Workforce Impact Program to $5 million. Representative Martinson proposed additional earmarks for the Fargo Theatre, Maddock trolley cars, a theater in Marmarth, and Driscoll’s community hall, and also moved to keep the Destination Development Fund at $25 million; the committee discussed these items, but the transcript does not show separate recorded votes on those proposals. The committee adopted two amendments. One dealt with the drone replacement program and related data-collection direction, with language agreed to by UAS representatives, IT, and the governor’s office. The second, offered by Representative Swantec, created a trigger for funding children’s science centers in Fargo and Grand Forks if the SIF fund exceeds a specified threshold during the 2025-27 biennium; the amendment was clarified to use the term “Children’s Science Education Center” and passed 7-0. The committee then approved a do-pass motion on the Commerce budget as amended and with the verbal changes discussed, passing the bill 7-0. During debate, Representative Louser raised concerns that the budget’s spending could affect property tax relief, while the chair responded that there would still be sufficient money for tax relief and that the programs funded were ongoing and successful. The chair closed by thanking members and staff, noting conference committee assignments and a committee dinner, and then adjourned.
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations - Education and Environment Division Apr 8th, 2025 at 02:00 pm

Appropriations - Education and Environment Division

Transcript Highlights:
  • We have not heard of any cuts to our federal programming.
  • We have been having our federal funds come in from Washington.
  • We are working through on receiving some federal funds for our DOE weatherization IGA funding that has
  • Chairman, no, that was not federally funded. Right, so do you have federally paid FTEs? Mr.
  • fund spending authority for anticipated federal revenue that... ...of federal funding authority for
Bills: SB2018
Summary: The committee took up Senate Bill 2018, the Department of Commerce budget, and walked through the long sheet and a series of proposed changes. Members discussed restoring a vacant workforce FTE that Commerce said it could fill soon, monitoring federal funding delays but reporting no known cuts, and adjusting several one-time items including Operation Intern, the North Dakota Development Fund, the Global Talent Office, and tourism-related funding. The chair also proposed separating tourism marketing and Good Life funding again, rather than combining them, and members raised concerns about ensuring tourism dollars are used only for tourism purposes. A number of program amounts were reviewed or adjusted in discussion, including UAS grants, Vantus/Beyond Visual Line of Sight funding, Grand Sky, Grand Farm autonomous agriculture grants, base enhancement grants, Native American small business grants, regional workforce impact grants, technical skills training grants, and tribal college workforce grants. Commerce officials explained that some grant language would be changed to require competitive RFP processes, and they clarified that the housing opportunity and community property improvement items were handled in other bills or programs. The committee also discussed apprenticeship efforts across state agencies and Commerce’s role in workforce development. The committee reviewed carryover and exemption language for prior appropriations, including federal weatherization and energy funds, and Commerce said three one-time FTE tied to those federal programs should become ongoing because the federal dollars continue over several years. A motion to add $1.5 million for the North Dakota Safety Council failed for lack of a second. The committee then planned to return the next day to continue work on Commerce and take up the CTE budget, including a pending amendment related to CTE’s possible move from the 15th floor of the Capitol.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Criminal Jurisprudence Apr 29th, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • And acquitted conduct is admissible in federal court.
  • That can be used to lengthen a federal sentence.
  • My law partner and I represented a fella in federal court who was living in McKinney. ...represented
  • a fellow in federal court who was living in McKinney.
Bills: HB115
Summary: The Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence reconvened with a quorum present and announced it would likely not vote that night because of confusion over the bill list; members were told a definitive list would be circulated the next morning and a formal meeting would be scheduled later. The chair then heard a series of bills, generally taking testimony and leaving each pending without action. House Bill 1847 would set maximum caseload standards for private attorneys handling indigent criminal appointments through the Texas Indigent Defense Commission; House Bill 2417 would expand compensation eligibility for some wrongfully imprisoned people; House Bill 2813 would require earlier and more specific victim notice of scheduled court proceedings; and House Bill 2309 would expand state and local authority in certain civil asset forfeiture cases involving human trafficking, health care fraud, and organized crime. Each bill was laid out by its author or a member, with no opposition witnesses registered, and each was left pending. The committee also heard House Bill 4733, which would require sealing records for people acquitted of charges when they were not convicted on the related allegation; House Bill 2328, which would modernize expunction service by encouraging electronic notice, setting a standardized fee when electronic service is unavailable, extending clerk retention of expunction orders, and preserving certain mental health commitment orders; and House Bill 115, which would revise Texas’s “junk science” post-conviction writ law by providing counsel, changing the relief standard, requiring written decisions, and easing procedural barriers. Testimony on HB 2328 was mixed: county clerks supported the bill as a cost-saving modernization, while legal advocates warned that permanent retention of expunction orders could undermine true expunction and create privacy risks. HB 115 drew support from innocence and defense organizations, with some concern about a provision affecting subsequent writs. All were left pending after testimony. Later, the committee heard House Bill 2046, which would allow affirmative family-violence findings for any Penal Code offense rather than only Title V offenses; testimony from a Dallas County prosecutor and a committee member emphasized that family violence can involve arson, burglary, fraud, and other non-Title V conduct, and the bill was left pending. House Bill 1765 would tighten restrictions on no-knock warrants by requiring higher-level approval, judicial review, and identifiable officers; members discussed the dangers highlighted by the Harding Street raid and similar incidents, and the bill was also left pending. The meeting ended with the chair noting that some bills had been removed from the agenda at the author’s request and that members should be prepared to finalize the vote list the next day.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development Mar 19th, 2025

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • This programs I see funding for new technologies and innovation across all industry sectors.
  • This program will become a powerful tool to ensure as many of this federal funds. to Texas as possible
  • It's very hard to raise other funds. These funds don't take away your equity.
  • funding.
  • , uh, and About 34 states already have matching programs to maximize these federal dollars, and we just
Bills: HB 186
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 4/15/26

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:25:14.040> that<00:25:14.120> was program, which was a program that was program
  • The newly ineligible individuals for federally funded Medicaid include those granted asylum or withholding
  • <00:41:47.640> funded<00:41:48.120> Medicaid<00:41:48.640> include federally funded
  • Medicaid include federally funded Medicaid include those<00:41:50.680> granted<00:41:51.120><
  • requirement is and cuts off federal requirement is and cuts off retroactive<01:03:46.680> funding
Bills: HF4401, HF4466
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Agriculture and Forestry Committee Apr 23rd, 2025

Agriculture and Forestry

Transcript Highlights:
  • sustain life to an injured animal without a permit, so long as the wild bird or animal is not a federally
  • I have helped secure state permits and federal permits in other states including Alabama.
  • As you fast forward 25 years, we have a program now.
  • The biggest battle that we fight to implement this program is the transportation of all materials.
  • Furthermore, there's no further allocation of funds.
Bills: HB448, HB448
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Higher Education Apr 22nd, 2025

Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • So I want to take off the... that the only way that they have is a Pell Grant or federal funds and loans
  • Are there other federal programs that are attached to this at all? Not to my knowledge.
  • Absolutely. well register I think in addition to federal programs we would also have kind of the Texas
  • grant and the TEOGs of the state need-based financial aid programs that are funded with general revenue
  • So the Pell Grant program being the largest of the federal programs, the SEOG is a small smaller program