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Committee recommends do-not-pass on veterans-assistance bill after accreditation dispute
Summary
Committee recommended a do-not-pass on House Bill 1169 after state and federal accreditation requirements and disagreements with the Veterans Affairs commissioner left the bill's goals unresolved; the committee recorded an 8-3-3 do-not-pass vote.
The Government and Veterans Affairs Committee voted to recommend a do-not-pass on House Bill 1169 after members concluded the bill could not be reconciled with federal Veterans Affairs accreditation requirements and because the state-level options sought by the sponsor were not acceptable to the VA commissioner.
Representative Brown, who had been working behind the scenes on the issue, told the committee the sponsor and stakeholders had not reached agreement with the…
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