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House amends grant bill for violent‑incident clearance technology; rural carve‑out amendment fails
Summary
Members considered House Bill 1511 on grants for violent-incident clearance and technological investigative methods. Lawmakers rejected an amendment to reserve 40% of funds for rural agencies but adopted a technical amendment changing reporting deadlines; multiple other amendments were debated or withdrawn.
House Bill 1511, described on the floor as providing “miscellaneous provisions and for violent incident clearance and technological investigative methods,” drew floor amendments about geographic allocation and reporting.
Representative Hamm offered Amendment A00916 to require at least 40% of grants be directed to rural law‑enforcement agencies, arguing rural departments are underresourced and that 72% of Pennsylvania is rural.…
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