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FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Environment and Natural Resources Jan 13th, 2026

Environment and Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • We're going to take up Tab 3, SB 848 on stormwater treatment by Senator Trunow.
  • You know, we've passed some stormwater rules in the past, and currently DEP is working on, for three
  • This framework began to establish a dependable, transparent system for improving water quality across
  • at the same time to provide solutions for the new stormwater rule requirements.
  • systems, accessibility improvements, and the replacement of aging utilities and visitor amenities.
Bills: S0544, S0636, S0848, S0546
Summary: The Environment and Natural Resources Committee met with a quorum and took up several bills. SB 636 on beach management, by Senator Leek, would create additional pathways for counties and municipalities to obtain critically eroded beach or area of critical state concern designations, shifting the process toward a more proactive approach. Senator Smith and Senator Harrell raised concerns about local capacity and funding, and the Florida Shore and Beach Preservation Association said the bill was an alternative pathway but emphasized the need for more recurring funding. The bill was reported favorably. The committee then considered SB 544, which transfers the Golf Course Best Management Practices Certification Program from DEP to FDACS and establishes certification and training standards there. Senator Smith and Senator Harrell asked about environmental oversight, taxation, and whether the change would affect state park restrictions; the sponsor said it would not change tax treatment or park rules and that DEP would still handle enforcement if BMPs are not followed. The Florida Springs Council opposed the bill, arguing golf courses are not agriculture and warning of weaker protections for springs, while the Florida Golf Course Superintendent's Association supported the move as a continuity and participation measure. After adopting a technical amendment, the committee reported the bill favorably, with Senator Smith voting no. SB 848 on stormwater treatment, also by Senator Trunow, was amended to clarify the role of water quality enhancement areas while stormwater rules are still being finalized and to make public-land project review forward-looking. Resource Environmental Solutions supported the amendment and bill as providing a clearer market for water quality credits, and the Florida Home Builders Association supported the measure. The committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably. SB 546 by Vice Chair Mayfield would require 30-day public notice before meetings reviewing the sale or exchange of state conservation lands, including at water management districts; after a technical amendment, it received support from conservation groups and was reported favorably. The committee also received a DEP presentation on the State Park Amenities Report, which said Florida’s 175 state parks drew over 28 million visitors and generated a $3.6 billion economic impact. DEP identified nearly $759 million in needed repairs and upgrades over 10 years and $1.39 billion in contemplated new construction and development in unit management plans. No votes were taken on the presentation, and the meeting adjourned after no further business.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Community Affairs Feb 10th, 2026

Community Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senators, we are going to move to tab 5, CS for SB 848 on stormwater treatment by Senator True Now.
  • Senate Bill 848 is mostly concerned with water quality and stormwater treatment and all these things
  • line between real water quality credits that are permanent, measured, and financially secured, and stormwater
  • allocations that are not. ...solutions in connection with new stormwater rule requirements as laid out
  • There is a cost to extend infrastructure and maintain that system.
Summary: The committee heard and advanced a wide range of bills focused on water safety, utilities, housing, transparency, and claims relief. CS/SB 848 on stormwater treatment was presented as a follow-up to prior water-quality legislation and reported favorably with one support waiver. SB 28, a claims bill for Reginald Jackson against the City of Lakeland, was also reported favorably. CS/SB 658, a bipartisan child-drowning prevention bill for rental properties, drew extensive testimony from child advocacy and drowning-prevention groups in strong support; amendments required rental license applicants to certify compliance and removed local-government add-on authority, and the bill was reported favorably. CS/SB 18, a claims bill involving the estate of a deceased minor and the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, prompted questions about settlement and responsibility but was ultimately reported favorably despite opposition from a waiver form. Several utility and infrastructure measures were considered. CS/SB 1724 would regulate municipal utility service outside city limits, limit revenue transfers, require public meetings, and cap rate differences; an amendment added gas utilities, and the bill was reported favorably after testimony from municipal utility representatives and small-county advocates. CS/SB 1014 would require municipal utilities to extend water and wastewater service to certain nearby residential properties without conditioning service on annexation; an amendment narrowed the bill to residential uses and clarified capacity and grandfathering provisions, and it passed favorably. CS/SB 1102 would allow local infrastructure surtax revenue to fund body camera programs, with an amendment making the surtax authorization prospective and requiring a new referendum; it was reported favorably. CS/SB 260 on electric-vehicle storage in towing yards was amended to focus on storage only and to tie the higher fee to the period before fire-risk inspection, then reported favorably after testimony from insurers, fire officials, and EV industry representatives. The committee also advanced education, housing, and ethics-related bills. SB 1264 would ease zoning and code barriers for small private schools and micro-schools, with supporters arguing it would expand school choice and opponents raising implementation concerns; it was reported favorably. SB 934 on Florida Keys areas of critical state concern was amended to remove a tax-exemption section that conflicted with the Live Local Act, then reported favorably. SB 1622 would provide a one-time waiver of late financial-disclosure fines under specified conditions and was reported favorably. Finally, CS/SB 1566 on local government spending and transparency required online posting of budgets and related materials, and an amendment added utility revenue reinvestment and other changes while removing DEI spending restrictions; the bill drew support for transparency but concern from small cities and counties about cost and workload, and it was reported favorably. The meeting ended with adjournment after senators recorded votes on selected bills.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Investment Committee 3/13/25

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:04:31.639> creates and failing septic system creates and failing septic system creates
  • Thank you. of expanding the sewer system by adding of expanding the sewer system by adding 23<00:07:42.400
  • this creates an inequitable system this creates an inequitable system because<00:26:54.840> not
  • The pump system is older than that.
  • The pump system is older than that.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Capital Investment Committee 3/6/25

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • a filtration system.
  • a filtration system.
  • a filtration system.
  • a filtration system.
  • population the system our water system population the system our water system was<00:18:12.280> put
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Higher Education Apr 8th, 2025

Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • in the system.
  • fastest-growing university in the Texas A&M System.
  • I'm the Chancellor of the Texas Tech University System.
  • Find money to be able to go online and upgrading and updating systems and sometimes putting new systems
  • our system, the firewalls that we have in our system, the firewalls that we have in our system, Texas
Bills: HB42, HB125
Summary: The Committee on Higher Education met to hear several bills and first corrected the minutes from its April 1, 2025 meeting to reflect that a committee substitute for HB 271 had been adopted before the bill was reported favorably. The committee then heard HB 3326, which would help Texas higher education employees, especially adjunct faculty, qualify for federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness by counting classroom hours toward full-time status, requiring institutions to verify employment within 60 days, and requiring annual notice to eligible employees. No witnesses testified against the bill, and it was left pending. Members then heard HB 2853, authorizing UTEP to phase in a student union fee increase to fund demolition and reconstruction of its aging student union. Representative Perez and UTEP student and university witnesses said the current facility is outdated and insufficient for a campus of more than 25,000 students, while some members raised concerns about the size of the fee increase and its impact on low-income students. UTEP representatives said most students receive aid, the fee would be phased in over time, and the project was student-approved; the bill was left pending. The committee also heard HB 4066, a one-line bill to abolish the Texas Research Incentive Program after the state cleared its backlog of matching obligations, with the author saying the program was no longer needed in light of newer research funding approaches. The bill was left pending. The committee spent substantial time on HB 125, which would create the Tarleton State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Supporters, including Tarleton leadership, the founding dean, a rural hospital CEO, and a feasibility consultant, argued the school would address severe rural physician shortages by recruiting Texas and rural students, training them in rural settings, and developing new residency slots rather than competing for existing ones. Members asked about affordability, residency placement, and whether the school would draw students from rural Texas; Tarleton said it would seek to keep tuition and debt low, had already raised private donations, and would request $25 million in state support over the biennium. The bill was left pending. Finally, the committee heard HB 42, which would increase the annual Higher Education Fund appropriation and adjust its allocation methodology. The chair and university witnesses described rising deferred maintenance, inflation, cybersecurity needs, and enrollment growth at HEAF-eligible institutions, with witnesses from Texas Tech, Sam Houston State, and UNT saying the additional funding would help address aging facilities and technology needs. After testimony, the committee left HB 42 pending and recessed.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Cap Committee Meeting - 2025-04-24

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • What I'm talking about today is the water main, sanitary sewer, and stormwater system. and stormwater
  • system.
  • The wastewater system has 92 total individual connections to the city sanitary sewer collection system
  • The collection system is comprised of 38 low-pressure collection system lift stations.
  • There are a total of 47 pumps in this system. There are known issues with this treatment system.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Investment Committee 4/24/25

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • , effective emergency response system, effective emergency response system, we've<00:10:35.760>
  • homes are being connected to the system. homes are being connected to the system.
  • their system concerns. their system concerns.
  • c> is system.
  • The collection system is system.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Urban and Rural Development Committee Apr 9th, 2025

Urban and Rural Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • school systems.
  • You go past a city school system in G Shores and have to go all the way to Fing.
  • , your city school system. ...your city school system, right?
  • Um, and that’s a system that I would call dynamic modeling. We don’t do dynamic modeling.
  • . everything and overload the system, and you're in a bind, you know.
Bills: HB402, HB402
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/24/2026 - House Natural Resources, Energy & Water

Natural Resources, Energy & Water

Transcript Highlights:
  • So the credits can be traded between systems as necessary to ensure that surface-water-dependent systems
  • The systems that have access to those wells can continue to operate the wells?
  • At its core, this bill is about modernizing the 811 call-before-you-dig system.
  • This system is a critical public safety tool, but it has not been meaningfully updated since 2005, so
  • In system-wide systems like an RID system, for example, the next farmer down the ditch would want to
Summary: The committee first received a presentation from the Arizona Water Banking Authority by Dr. Rebecca Burnett. She explained the authority’s role in storing Colorado River water as long-term storage credits, its funding sources, and its obligations to provide backup supplies for CAP municipal and industrial subcontractors, the Hualapai River Indian community, and Nevada. Members asked about future firming for CAP users, recovery of credits, water quality issues, and whether municipalities banking water themselves affects the authority’s supply. Burnett said the authority has no current firming policy for CAP M&I subcontractors, is waiting on Colorado River guidelines, and does not have excess water to bank because no surplus is available. No action was taken on the presentation. The committee then heard and voted on several bills. SB 1445, as amended, allows small municipalities to test bacteriological samples on site with EPA-approved equipment; the sponsor and a rural mayor argued it would save money and improve responsiveness, while some members questioned whether the change was already possible under existing law. The bill passed 6-4. SB 1137, with a Taylor amendment, modernizes Arizona’s 811 call-before-you-dig system by adding large-project coordination meetings, an interactive positive response system, and related procedures; it passed unanimously 10-0. SB 1287, which expands an existing groundwater use allowance for irrigation grandfathered rights from initial AMAs to all AMAs, passed 9-1. The committee also considered SB 1335, as amended, which in its final form addressed a temporary continuation of irrigation tied to the Ag-to-Urban program and groundwater savings credits; DWR said the amendment was still a placeholder and needed cleanup, while supporters said it would help manage timing issues for farmers and developers. It passed 5-4. SB 1336 reauthorized the State Land Department through 2030 and added oversight, reporting, and planning requirements; the department was neutral but raised concerns about the proposed oversight committee and implementation details. After debate over the need for another board and the length of reauthorization, it passed 5-4. Finally, SB 1677 appropriates $3 million to the Department of Forestry and Fire Management for salt cedar mitigation along the lower Gila River corridor. Supporters from Audubon Southwest, the City of Buckeye, and local landowners said the invasive trees increase flood and wildfire risk, consume large amounts of water, and crowd out native habitat; some members raised concerns about herbicide use and wanted more detail on the mitigation plan. The bill passed 9-0. The chair then thanked staff and members, and the meeting adjourned.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Retirement May 5th, 2026

Retirement

Transcript Highlights:
  • It kind of fixes a glitch in the DROP system.
  • the sheriffs and other systems.
  • That system.
  • Well, she's still paying into the retirement system, where he's still paying into the retirement system
  • And I guess one more question for the system.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Banking, Financial Services and Pensions REVISED: HB1182 - Removed Feb 17th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Banking, Financial Services and Pensions

Transcript Highlights:
  • , we, to keep the pension system whole, we have made... ...to keep the pension system whole, we have
  • House Bill 2193 is a COLA for state retirement systems.
  • Same for some of the other systems. I didn't cap it on all the systems.
  • Same for some of the other systems.
  • The anticipated cost for our system, and I believe the police pension system was included in this, for
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health Apr 17th, 2025

S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • behalf of the communities that go unheard when we talk about health, those living in gaps of our system
  • A food desert is an area where residents often face systemic barriers that prevent them from accessing
  • areas, grocery store access, transportation issues, agency interventions and interventions, and systemic
  • Uh, in 2015, when we consolidated the Health and Human Services system, we also established the Women's
  • Uh, these services are completely lacking for children in our Medicaid system.
Bills: HB231
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 2/20/25

State Government Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • You have to know what to protect and how those systems interact with the environment.
  • Correct, this is the first time we've done an audit of their IT system.
  • Correct, this is the first time we've done an audit of their IT system.
  • up to this system.
  • when we look at Health Care Systems when we look at Health Care Systems we're<01:06:06.720> we're
Bills: HF1060, HF1062
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Cap Committee Meeting - 2026-04-16

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • have their own private septic systems. have their own private septic systems.
  • excess flow straight through our system excess flow straight through our system and<00:18:32.720
  • <00:25:57.279> shoreline risk, septic system failures, shoreline risk, septic system failures,
  • <00:59:00.640> Key the system is showing its age. Key the system is showing its age.
  • investment to modernize the system. investment to modernize the system.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/21/2026 - House Appropriations

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • This definition of stormwater, and with that, I'm available for any questions?
  • Why is counting stormwater confidence different? Why is there a split on it?
  • confident Why is counting stormwater confident different?
  • and then the Access system for any kids who have autism. ...affects both the DD system and then the
  • Access system for any kids who have autism but don't qualify for DD.
Bills: HB2053, HB2116, HB2148
Summary: The committee first considered House Bill 2116, which would appropriate $1 million in fiscal year 2027 from the State General Fund to the Colorado River Litigation Fund. The sponsor said it was a repeat of last year’s request and was intended as a backup if the seven Colorado River basin states cannot reach a new agreement. Arizona Department of Water Resources staff testified in support, explaining the state’s role in ongoing Colorado River negotiations and distinguishing the litigation fund from the executive’s separate Colorado River Protection Fund. The bill received a due pass recommendation on a 17-1 vote. The committee then took up House Bill 2053, which appropriates $100,000 to ADWR for updated stormwater recharge mapping and expands the mapping effort beyond state trust lands to private lands. The committee adopted Chairman Livingston’s amendment, which extended the coordination timeline to one year, broadened the agencies involved, and revised language on site eligibility and the definition of stormwater. The sponsor said the bill would help identify more places to capture stormwater for recharge, while ADWR testified neutral, supporting the mapping work but raising a concern about language tied to appropriable surface water because that is a legal determination for the courts. The amended bill passed 11-7. House Bill 2148 was then heard, proposing to give the legislature authority to appropriate non-custodial federal monies, with requirements for specifying purposes and allowing agencies to spend such funds if the legislature does not act. An amendment excluded university and Board of Regents research grants from the bill’s scope, which the chair said was intended to avoid implementation problems. The sponsor framed the bill as a transparency measure, and members discussed the large amount of federal pass-through funding Arizona receives. The amended bill passed 11-7. After the bills, the committee received a lengthy JLBC presentation comparing the executive budget with the JLBC baseline. Discussion focused on revenue forecasts, the impact of federal tax conformity, state employee health insurance costs, SNAP administrative and error-rate costs under H.R. 1, developmental disabilities and AHCCCS growth, and K-12/ESA funding trends. Members repeatedly criticized the executive budget for funding some ongoing costs on a one-year basis and expressed concern about rising caseloads and supplemental needs. No formal action was taken on the presentation.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Natural Resources Apr 9th, 2025

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • These areas depend entirely on constructed drainage systems, which are very costly.
  • We initiated the process to get a modeling program done of our system.
  • Um, and there are issues around, um, TRWD's, uh, I think, system capacity in general.
  • It has to be X amount of feet away from, uh, your septic system.
  • Without a viable sustainable water system, commerce is not going to move in.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Natural Resources Apr 9th, 2025

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • It doesn't increase after that, so there's no tier system? It's a. It's a flat one-time rate.
  • These areas depend entirely on constructed drainage systems, which are very costly.
  • These artificial drainage systems, we have to constantly invest in and expand them just to survive.
  • Currently, the city requires a 50-year. for new subdivisions, 25 years sewer systems for residential
  • To vindicate those rights in court without the risk that's attendant and in today's system.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Natural Resources Apr 9th, 2025

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • So we've assisted a lot of our community. by expanding their systems as well so I would say well over
  • I've got one water system in my precinct right now that I don't know if you know what a gooey well is
  • The ability to manage stormwater, just like our bigger next-door neighbors in Travis County. bear.
  • And it expanded over stormwater.
  • As part of the stormwater permitting program. that counties would then be able to join.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Cap Committee Meeting - 2025-04-30

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • Our project is ranked No. 2 in the Minnesota State System.
  • We supply power to things like hospital systems and prisons.
  • The Pine City Wastewater Pond System is a little over 106 acres, one of the largest in the state.
  • The system worked. Inspectors found the cracks; it was closed. No one was hurt. No story.
  • The Forest Service, this isn't part of their system; it's our system. system, so we're hoping that we
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Investment Committee 4/30/25

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • system improvements for water quality. system improvements for water quality.
  • , which overburdened the system.
  • , which overburdened the system.
  • Uh, the Forest Service, this isn't part of their system. It's our system.
  • part of their system. It's our system. part of their system. It's our system.