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Committees amend disaster-preparedness bill to limit use of correctional facilities as public shelters (SB239)
Summary
Senate Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs approved amendments to SB239 to remove correctional facilities from requirements to shelter the public and to exempt non-enclosed structures; Committee on Government Operations deferred a formal vote to Feb. 4, 2025.
The Senate Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs voted on Jan. 31, 2025 to advance SB239 with substantive amendments limiting which state buildings must be designed and equipped to serve as hurricane shelters. The Committee on Government Operations did not have a quorum and deferred its formal vote to a reconvened session on Feb. 4, 2025.
Tommy Johnson, Director of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, told the committees the department supports the measure’s goal of hurricane resistance but cautioned that correctional facilities have limited capacity to shelter members of the public. "We do believe that all…
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