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Appropriations staff outline dozens of one‑time commerce grants and transfers including tourism marketing, housing and UAS programs
Summary
Committee staff enumerated one‑time proposals and special‑fund transfers in the Commerce long sheet: tourism marketing, internship funding, radar and UAS grants, housing grants, tourism destination grants, autonomous agriculture, entrepreneurship and workforce program funding among others.
Committee staff walked members through the Commerce one‑time funding section of the long sheet and the recommended bill sections that authorize special fund transfers and one‑time appropriations.
Highlights from the staff presentation included (amounts and funding sources as presented in the long sheet):
- Tourism marketing awareness: $5,000,000 (SIF) recommended as new one‑time funding (staff said this matched last biennium's one‑time amount).
- Operation internship program: staff recounted prior transfers and said Armstrong recommended increasing one‑time operating funding so the program could total $3,000,000 (Green sheets/OMB transfer language referenced).
- State radar data pathfinder and uncrewed aerial vehicle replacement grants: staff tied these to legislation (House Bill 1038 referenced by staff) and said the…
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