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Senate committee approves expansion of Georgia Public Safety Memorial Grant to spouses and school employees
Summary
A Georgia Senate committee approved a bill to expand the Georgia Public Safety Memorial Grant to include spouses and to create a separate fund providing the same benefit to teachers and other public school employees; the panel updated award amounts and advanced the measure unanimously.
Chairman Petrie told the committee the bill would expand the Georgia Public Safety Memorial Grant to add spouses and create a separate, parallel fund for teachers and public school employees.
The measure updates award amounts and how the program is administered. "This bill began as an opportunity to simply add spouses," Chairman Petrie said, adding that the measure also updates award sums "to the 18,000 and the 72,000 for 4 years." He said the new section creates a separate fund,…
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