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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 3/18/26

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's rising faster than the economy and it's rising faster than our wages and salaries.
  • So, that is um our wages and salaries.
  • We've also frozen wage increases. We've reduced some programs.
  • </c><01:18:05.800><c> and</c><01:18:06.080><c> capital</c> know, freezing of wages and capital know,
  • freezing of wages and capital investment<01:18:06.719><c> and</c><01:18:06.800><c> all</c><01:18:06.880
Bills: HF4343
Committee: House Taxes
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Taxes - 03/18/26

Taxes

WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Labor & Workplace Standards Jan 30th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Labor & Workplace Standards

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill gives the department discretion when enforcing wage complaints under the Wage Payment Act.
  • There is one amendment. ...discretion when enforcing wage complaints under the Wage Payment Act.
  • This is the wage recovery bill that comes from the wage recovery task force or work group, excuse me.
  • It creates the program and creates a wage recovery account.
  • We are aligning provisions from two bills on wage recovery and wage enforcement this year, one L&I request
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Labor & Workplace Standards Jan 23rd, 2026 at 10:30 am

Labor & Workplace Standards

Transcript Highlights:
  • The first is creating the wage recovery program and the wage recovery account.
  • All civil penalties collected under the wage complaints and under the Minimum Wage Act must be deposited
  • into the newly created wage recovery account.
  • That wage recovery fund would be funded through penalty collection and wage recovery by the department
  • Wage theft is pervasive, but disproportionately will impact low-wage workers, women, people of color,
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Labor & Workplace Standards Feb 25th, 2026 at 08:45 am

Labor & Workplace Standards

Transcript Highlights:
  • benefits of the potential to receive an overpayment assessment if the worker receives retroactive wages
  • benefits while they're on strike and the employer, when they come back, pays them their retroactive wages
Bills: SB6134
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Taxes - 02/25/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • On paragraph O, this is the prevailing wage that is required for these large-scale data centers.
  • the</c> law on paragraph o this is the law on paragraph o this is the prevailing<00:10:00.279><c> wage
  • that</c><00:10:01.399><c> is</c><00:10:01.640><c> required</c><00:10:02.040><c> for</c> prevailing wage
  • Good jobs are good jobs, but in Minnesota they're union jobs, and they're prevailing wage jobs.
  • Good jobs are good jobs, but in Minnesota they're union jobs, and they're prevailing wage jobs.
Bills: HF4 , HF173
Committee: Senate Taxes
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Higher Education Apr 29th, 2025

Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • It stands to lose 461 million dollars in in lost wages so two hundred and forty five million dollars
  • in and lost wages and $216 in spending power.
  • complete a post-secondary credential. after high school have just a 12% chance of earning a living wage
  • white people who want to take a wrecking ball to our economy and trap a class of people in poverty wages
  • Even if the situation will be taken away, lost wages and spending power.
Bills: HB232
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 3/25/26

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • The sad reality is that so many there's such a big disconnect between the cost of housing and the wages
  • And so that the teachers can earn wages on par with K-12 teachers.
  • Teachers also deserve a livable wage and benefits, and high-quality staff directly impact those that
  • wage and benefits,<01:21:06.520><c> and</c><01:21:06.680><c> high-quality</c><01:21:07.160><c> staff
  • "You can't do increase minimum wage. That'll just get passed down to consumers.
Bills: HF4561 , HF4343
Committee: House Taxes
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 3/26/26

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • ><c> income</c><00:24:09.040><c> by</c><00:24:09.200><c> the</c> bill reduces the taxable income by the
  • bill reduces the taxable income by the amount<00:24:09.840><c> paid</c><00:24:10.320><c> by</c><00:24
  • </c><00:28:09.840><c> income</c> deduct that um from their taxable income deduct that um from their taxable
  • </c><00:31:42.880><c> And</c> taxable income would actually apply.
  • And taxable income would actually apply.
Bills: HF495 , HF4321 , HF3902 , HF4161 , HF3755
Committee: House Taxes
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Taxes - 03/26/26

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • 01:02:34.960><c> be</c> you know, why it was construed to be you know, why it was construed to be taxable
  • 36.000><c> lot</c><01:02:36.200><c> of</c><01:02:36.320><c> research</c><01:02:36.720><c> and</c> taxable
  • That took a lot of research and taxable.
  • > means that business cannot purchase means that business cannot purchase retail<01:21:05.240><c> taxable
  • liquor, no wholesaler, no retail taxable liquor, no wholesaler, no manufacturer,<01:21:08.640><c> and
Bills: HF495 , HF4321 , HF3902 , HF4161 , HF3755
Committee: Senate Taxes
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Labor & Commerce Jan 19th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Labor & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • The legislature did a tremendous job in 2020 in protecting the rights of lower-wage and moderate-wage
  • employees,” “In protecting the rights of lower-wage and moderate-wage employees.
  • But the problems that they faced, higher-wage employees are also facing.
  • Employees may file wage complaints with L&I, alleging violations of wage payment requirements.
  • for a wage complaint.
Bills: SB5437 , SB6152 , SB6058 , SB5944 , SB6039 , SB6117
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Budget Feb 26th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Capital Budget

Transcript Highlights:
  • I just presumed that prevailing wage would be adjusted as the prevailing wage changed.
  • Well, you know, prevailing wage obviously is adjusted with wage rates that are going up.
  • So, you know, as wage rates change, so the prevailing wage is being changed.
  • But the prevailing wage is the prevailing wage, and it has to be done on a public work.
  • We consider the minimum wage or the prevailing wage to be the minimum required.
Bills: HB2295
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Taxes - 03/20/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • The remainder is borne by workers in the form of lower wages and by investors through reduced returns
  • income between $500,000 and a taxable income between $500,000 and a million<01:17:02.560><c> dollars
  • Childare workers in poverty level wages.
  • offered by large retailers or the wages offered by large retailers or fast<01:27:16.960><c> food</c>
  • The only way to offer competitive<01:27:20.080><c> wages</c><01:27:20.480><c> is</c><01:27:20.719><c>
Bills: HF2254 , HF2302 , HF2502 , HF2315 , HF2475 , HF2086
Committee: Senate Taxes
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Labor & Commerce Feb 2nd, 2026 at 10:30 am

Labor & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • This provision is used to suppress wages and ultimately prevent fair, equitable contracts.
  • We can see it where wage compliance is monitored; the pricing is very different.
  • Wage theft is not accidental. It is a business model. Wage theft is not accidental.
  • And that's why we do support the wage recovery program.
  • There are better and more targeted ways to address wage theft without hurting responsible.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Labor & Workplace Standards Jan 14th, 2026 at 08:00 am

Labor & Workplace Standards

Transcript Highlights:
  • It just makes it so that it's not taxable. That's just, I want to say, the lay term.
  • It just makes it so that it's not taxable. It just makes it so that it's not taxable.
  • And under this new guidance, as has been said, medical leave benefits are taxable.
  • ..but again, there is the Wage Recovery Task Force, which I think...
  • Also, you know, how many of these unpaid wage claims are coming from...
Bills: HB2144 , HB2190 , HB2191 , HB2303 , HB2345