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House panel expands rural disaster-recovery eligibility in bill to add Kerr County and others
Summary
Representative Ashby asked the committee to amend the rural infrastructure disaster recovery program by raising a GDP cap and lowering the poverty-rate threshold so Kerr County and 18 other counties affected by July floods become eligible to receive grants under House Bill 254.
Representative Ashby asked the committee to modify an existing rural infrastructure disaster recovery program passed earlier in the regular session (House Bill 3010) to expand eligibility for grants to counties affected by the July Hill Country floods. Under the current statute, grants are limited to counties with population under 100,000,…
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