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Appropriations committee holds open $30 million disaster‑match expansion, seeks details on available federal funds
Summary
The committee left open language that would expand state flexibility to use disaster appropriations as matching funds for federally declared disasters beyond FEMA, and asked staff to confirm how much federal disaster funding remains to be matched.
The House Appropriations Committee on March 12 kept open a proposal to broaden a disaster‑match appropriation so it could be used as the state match for a wider set of federally declared disaster funding sources, not only FEMA. The provision—discussed as a possible $30 million authority for matches—was described by staff as intended to let the state pair existing appropriations with multiple federal programs (for example, Federal Highway emergency relief) that follow…
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