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NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 12th, 2026 at 05:47 pm

Senate Finance

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  • pay for the capital outlay package for higher ed.
  • So, of that $75 million, what are those projects?
  • Because they already have $25 million for those projects. I understand the State Fair projects.
  • Now, what are the projects out of the public lands restoration? What would those projects be?
  • Where does that—does it end up being available to these projects?
Bills: SB190, HB247, HB8
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 12th, 2026 at 10:24 am

Senate Finance

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  • on reauthorizations and new appropriations for capital outlay projects.
  • Capital Improvement Plan, ICIP, to receive capital appropriations.
  • Infrastructure Capital Improvement Plan, ICIP, to receive capital appropriations.
  • project through a capital outlay process.
  • outlay project planning.
Bills: SB190, HB247, HB8
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Taxation and Revenue Feb 18th, 2026 at 02:07 pm

House Taxation & Revenue

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  • projects statewide.
  • Those projects include $525 million in this bill, which is appropriated to projects prioritized by House
  • Some of the state agency projects are for the benefit of local entities.
  • One was a drafting error that sent appropriations to the wrong agency or project. wrong agency or project
  • Chair, could you, when we do capital outlay projects for... let's say a backhoe, or as opposed to maybe
Bills: SB240
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Taxation and Revenue Feb 18th, 2026 at 08:43 am

House Taxation & Revenue

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  • A provision like this would make these projects feasible. Thank you so much for your time.
  • to these changes, and many projects simply will not move forward.
  • This makes projects financially viable that might otherwise stall or never get built.
  • It allows local governments to contribute capital and things like infrastructure.
  • side with their universities.
Bills: SB240
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations - Education and Environment Division Apr 15th, 2025 at 03:30 pm

Appropriations - Education and Environment Division

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  • that the 70th Legislative Assembly consider supporting the completion of the Allied Health Facility Project
  • at the University of North Dakota.
  • Thank you. ...the completion of the Allied Health Facility Project at the University of North Dakota
  • But on the other hand, UND would like to have this to help raise the money for the project.
  • And as we know, we've moved $5 million from Tier 2 to Tier 3 to get this ball rolling on that project
Bills: SB2003
Summary: The committee reconvened to act on Senate Bill 2003, the higher education budget. Members first replaced prior intent language related to the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences with new language stating it is the intent of the 69th Legislative Assembly that an Allied Health Facility expansion be completed, and that the 70th Legislative Assembly consider supporting completion of the project. The chair explained the change was meant to avoid binding the next legislature to a specific $50 million commitment while still helping UND with fundraising. The amendment was moved, seconded, and adopted unanimously. The committee then addressed funding for Minot State University’s “Advancing Students Toward Education and Employment” program. After some discussion about the amount already in the bill and what had been previously agreed to, the committee approved adding $1 million, bringing the total appropriation for that line to $1.5 million. Members referenced prior testimony in support of the program. That amendment also passed unanimously. After approving the amendments, the committee adopted a do-pass recommendation on Senate Bill 2003 as amended, with Representative Sanford designated as the bill carrier. The chair noted the bill would likely be taken up on the floor later in the week. The committee also said it would return to commerce-related work the next day and then adjourned for the day.
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations - Education and Environment Division Apr 15th, 2025 at 10:15 am

Appropriations - Education and Environment Division

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  • The university system can have something in place and they can start granting it out.
  • And I'm sorry, that would fall under the institution budget, not the university system budget.
  • Chairman, the reason I second it, The university system budget. Mr.
  • We passed some really nice little projects in the parks budget that the Senate kind of decimated.
  • Plus, I'd like to add Driscoll in there for their little—well, it's a neat little project.
Bills: SB2003
Summary: The committee first reconsidered Senate Bill 2003 in the higher education budget and adopted several changes. It removed $3 million for enterprise resource planning, struck $2 million for a grant program for students who are pregnant or recently gave birth, and then added $3 million back into workforce education and innovative grants, restoring that line to $12 million. Members also discussed a possible purchase of the 19th Avenue building in Fargo for the State School of Science, but the motion was withdrawn for later consideration. Other higher ed items were briefly noted, including tribally controlled community colleges and a state magazine funding line, but no final action was taken on the building proposal during this segment. The committee then moved to Senate Bill 2018, the Commerce budget, and reviewed a long list of funding items. It restored a vacant workforce FTE, increased tourism marketing to $10 million and Find the Good Life to $5 million, raised Operation Intern by $1 million, removed a $100,000 infrastructure study, increased autonomous agriculture grants to $15 million, and set the Regional Workforce Impact Program at $10 million. It also kept or adjusted several other items, including the uncrewed aerial vehicle replacement program, the global talent office, tribally controlled community colleges, Native American small business grants, and technical skills training grants. A major new provision would transfer $50 million total, split between SIF and Bank of North Dakota profits, to the Theodore Roosevelt Library Museum Endowment Fund, matching a private fundraising challenge; members expressed both support and concern, and said they would revisit it later. The committee also discussed language to allow commercialization of Vantis and to permit the Turtle Mountain gaming compact proposal to move forward with required federal approvals, while clarifying that a previously discussed $100,000 study had been removed. Commerce officials said the workforce language was intended to centralize data and strategy, and they noted Operation Intern would need an emergency clause because applications begin in May. No final vote on the Commerce budget was taken in this segment, and the chair said the committee would return later to finish both budgets.
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations - Education and Environment Division Apr 14th, 2025 at 02:30 pm

Appropriations - Education and Environment Division

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  • Section 11 requires capital projects authorized by the State Board to have adequate project oversight
  • It says can be used for capital projects of It says it can be used for capital projects approved by the
  • I thought if I remember, I had said major capital projects approved by the legislature, something to
  • Emergency clauses in there for capital projects, bonding, and land sale.
  • The capital projects, for example, the $5 million for UND, the $3.2 million for the Lake Region.
Bills: SB2003
Summary: The committee met to work through the higher education budget, beginning with a conflict-of-interest request from Representative Martinson, who was excused from voting because of a partnership that leases office space to Bismarck State College. Members then reviewed the higher education institution budget sheets, covering ongoing and one-time funding items for campuses and system projects such as BSC housing, Lake Region roof repairs, UND’s STEM and National Security Crossroads projects, the UND allied health facility, NDSU projects including New Horizons, DSU deferred maintenance and campus security, Mayville’s Old Main, Minot projects, and the regional health institutes. Members also discussed student financial assistance, the professional student exchange program, IT security funding, and workforce/education innovation grants. Several amendments and policy questions were debated. The committee adopted an amendment to make workforce education innovation grants competitive rather than automatically distributed, and then voted to remove language prohibiting those funds from being used to duplicate academic programs. Members also removed similar anti-duplication language from the New Horizons section. They agreed to extend the UND hyperbaric chamber transfer authority to 2027 and clarified language around UND land-sale proceeds. A proposed amendment to add $5.6 million for the Wahpeton State School of Science building purchase failed for lack of a second, and a proposal to restore fetal alcohol spectrum disorder funding to UND was left for conference. The committee also discussed, but did not add, a tuition cap change, a study on the Praxis exam, and several governance-related provisions. The committee spent significant time on broader higher education policy items, including a $3 million enterprise resource planning request for the university system, a $2 million grant program for students who are pregnant, recently gave birth, or are caring for young children, and a $1.1 million request for library age-verification software tied to the Odin system. Members also discussed dual-credit authority for UND and NDSU, a goal for the UND medical school to increase North Dakota resident enrollment, and intent language regarding the commissioner/chancellor model and presidential search authority. At the end of the meeting, the committee approved the amendments and then gave the higher education budget a do-pass recommendation as amended, with Representative Sanford designated as the carrier. The Forest Service budget was also approved, including two additional FTEs, and the committee adjourned after noting it would continue with other budgets the next day.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Education Feb 11th, 2026 at 09:06 am

Senate Education

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  • Student life and housing projects are currently ineligible for funding from state capital outlay sources
  • It opens up additional avenues for major capital projects at all of our institutions in the state.
  • And so it's important that when we take on a major capital project that it is really funded, so things
  • Would need to be inputted into the fund if this fund was to continue for major capital projects.
  • Nina Chavez, Higher Education Department, Capital Projects Division, Program Coordinator.
Bills: SB234, SB210, SB243, SB244, SM16, HB8
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Education Feb 11th, 2026 at 08:39 am

House Education

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  • Teacher preparation in colleges and universities is also very important.
  • Southwest Organizing Project, if you would, state your name, and then go ahead.
  • Project Echo. There was some very strong oral language development.
  • In terms of the University of New Mexico, that's the only university I can speak to because I did not
  • But at the University of New Mexico, we had a hard time keeping our math faculty.
Bills: SB234, SB210, SB243, SB244, SM16, HB8
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Taxation and Revenue Feb 14th, 2026 at 10:35 am

House Taxation & Revenue

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  • A list of the projects and the amounts included in the bill by agency includes major projects such as
  • Donnelly Library at New Mexico Highlands University.
  • reporting, just like any other capital project.
  • Madam Chair, Representative, so unlike other sources of funding for capital projects, general obligation
  • , Unlike other sources of funding for capital projects, general obligation bond proceeds cannot be reauthorized
Bills: HB248, HB309, HB332, SB48
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Taxation and Revenue Feb 13th, 2026 at 08:35 am

House Taxation & Revenue

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  • hump on a project.
  • Representative, do you have any projects in mind?
  • We've got a project. Would you run this?"
  • There wasn't a specific project. Thank you. That's what I wanted to know.
  • This is going to be a year-long project for us to do that.
Bills: HB248, HB309, HB332, SB48
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 14th, 2026 at 10:07 am

Senate Finance

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  • You're going to add universal child care onto that.
  • Vedro at the New Mexico Council of University Presidents represents the seven universities in New Mexico
  • I'm with government relations at the University of New Mexico.
  • But the folks at the University of New Mexico, they've been doing it since the 1990s.
  • But the folks at the University of New Mexico, they've been doing it since the 1990s.
Bills: SB151, HB8, SB177
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 13th, 2026 at 03:43 pm

Senate Finance

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  • When do you anticipate doing the bill for the university fund? I don't know, we'll see.
  • Doing the bill for the university fund? I don't know. We'll see. That's super important.
Bills: SB151, HB8, SB177
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 13th, 2026 at 09:37 am

Senate Finance

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  • and, you know, assuming a typical cost of that project and the GRT on the cost of those projects.
  • projects like the UNM Medical School, as well as providing funding for students' life and housing projects
  • capital outlay project, and $100 million allocated for student life projects, capital outlay projects
  • They’re to finish a capital project at UNM, and they’re to finish a capital project at another higher-ed
  • And it's a very large project.
Bills: SB151, HB8, SB177
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget 2nd Revised Apr 20th, 2026 at 04:30 pm

Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget

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  • There could be some in a project already.
  • State or expanding existing project nursing programs.
  • Moved to other already projects that they have in place.
  • Projects, I really don't know how much time they have to expend this money to complete this project.
  • in venture capital companies.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget Apr 20th, 2026 at 04:30 pm

Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget

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  • This bill reappropriates the ARPA funds from projects in danger.
  • One is the Boys and Girls Clubs for $3 million to fill gaps and finish out projects.
  • gives them some Flexibility to maneuver that money around to pay for those projects.
  • Allows them to close out the projects and address any gaps in funding. Move adoption.
  • pharmaceutical expansion project in Tulsa.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget Apr 20th, 2026

Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget

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  • Are these still ARPA projects that we're moving them to? Thank you for that question.
  • This bill reappropriates the ARPA funds from projects in danger.
  • One is the Boys and Girls Clubs for $3 million to fill gaps and finish out projects.
  • gives them some flexibility to maneuver that money around to pay for those projects.
  • and also their pharmaceutical expansion project in Tulsa.
Summary: The committee considered a series of bills largely focused on reappropriating and closing out ARPA-related funds, transferring interest earnings, and filling funding gaps in existing state projects. Measures included funding for the Health Care Workforce Training Commission, juvenile services in Rogers County, rural hospital rebuild projects, DHS-related projects for Boys and Girls Clubs and the YWCA, water and wastewater projects through the OWRB, ALS grant limits for OSDH, pandemic relief accounting, administrative costs for ARPA projects, pediatric cardiology and OSU-related projects, rural industrial park and port water/wastewater gaps, and emergency response grants through the Department of Emergency Management. Most of these bills were presented by Rep. Newton, Chairman Caldwell, Speaker Hilbert, Rep. Osborne, Rep. Hill, and others, with committee substitutes adopted without objection where noted. One bill, House Bill 4028, drew the most discussion. It would extend the sunset on the qualified equity investment deduction for venture capital investments. Members questioned the lack of program-specific evaluation data, including return on investment, jobs created, and how much of the tax deduction had actually been used. The sponsor said the program had helped grow Oklahoma venture capital and that he would seek better data, but argued the sunset should be extended for now. The bill passed 23-6. Another extended exchange centered on House Bill 4063, which combined measures related to placing state questions on the August ballot, including HJR 1024 and a bill tied to House Bill 1440. Members raised concerns about single-subject issues, ballot timing, voter turnout, and whether combining the measures limited legislators’ options. The Speaker defended the approach as election-related and noted prior precedent. The bill passed 23-6. The remaining bills were approved overwhelmingly, generally by votes of 27-0, 28-0, or 29-0, and were reported out with due pass recommendations before the meeting adjourned.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget 2nd Revised Apr 20th, 2026

Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget

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  • goes to those broadband projects?
  • Projects, what of this $21 million then goes to those broadband projects?
  • Commerce will enter into MOUs to administer the different projects.
  • capital companies, they just like the idea that it's there.
  • So we've seen roughly $300 million come in in venture capital.
Summary: The Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget met and first took up House Bill 4063, adopting a committee substitute over objection by a 17-4 roll call vote. The bill, as explained by the Pro Tem, moves the election dates for House Bill 4440 and Joint Resolution 1024 to August 25, 2026. Members debated whether the measure violated the single-subject rule or was an attempt to revisit proposals that had previously failed, but the committee advanced it and it passed 16-6 after debate. The committee then considered a series of appropriations and reappropriations, largely involving ARPA and interest funds. These included Senate Bills 1130 through 1134 and 1142, which redirected funds to the University Hospital Authority and Trust, the Office of Juvenile Affairs, the State Department of Health for rural hospital rebuild efforts, the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services for Griffin Memorial Hospital capacity, and DHS-related projects including Boys & Girls Club and YWCA funding. All of these bills passed, with most receiving broad support and only a few dissenting votes. Members also advanced several House bills: HB 4029 appropriated funds to the State Department of Health and the ALS fund; HB 4074 gave the Health Care Workforce Training Commission flexibility to close out ARPA projects and transfer funds among nursing-related programs; HB 4075 reappropriated water and wastewater funds within OWRB; HB 476 provided rural economic impact grant funding for water, wastewater, sewer, air park, industrial park, and broadband-related projects; HB 477 funded emergency response and relief grants with standard administrative language; HB 478 covered ARPA closeout costs for consultants and the grants management office; HB 428 extended a qualified equity investment tax deduction sunset; and HB 473 and HB 4073 pulled back ARPA funds for reappropriation and closeout. Most measures passed on strong roll-call votes, and the committee adjourned after HB 4073 passed 21-0.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Appropriations and Finance Feb 13th, 2026 at 05:31 pm

House Appropriations & Finance

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  • These projected enrollment growth units are Supplemental appropriation request.
  • projects don't require. the use of EPDs.
  • That would specifically only refer to public and private projects.
  • Additionally, the production incentive and the capital grant are focused towards eligible products, not
  • From the Chamber's perspective, this bill is about leveraging incentives to attract private capital,