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Committee approves amendment and advances bill to create Missing Indigenous Task Force with $250,000 request
Summary
The Appropriations — Education and Environment Division voted to add an "or designee" clause to House Bill 1199 and voted to advance the bill as amended. HB1199 seeks $250,000 to establish a task force to address missing Indigenous people and to support awareness, coordination and related measures including use of a proposed "feather alert."
Representative Dawson Hawley, who identified himself as representing District 31, told the committee House Bill 1199 would create a Missing Indigenous Task Force and requested $250,000 to fund awareness, coordination and related measures.
“For the record, my name is Dawson Hawley, and I represent District 31. So house bill 11 99 is the creation of a missing indigenous task force,” Hawley said, describing goals that include an awareness campaign, coordination with a proposed Feather Alert system and improving communications on remote reservations.
Stephen Horstead,…
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