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Bill to provide stable state funding for local emergency managers laid over after testimony from tribes and counties
Summary
House File 2099 would appropriate $12 million per year to be distributed equally among Minnesota's 87 counties, 11 tribes and four first-class cities to sustain emergency-management positions and preparedness; tribal and county emergency managers testified in favor and the committee laid the bill over.
Representative Johnson presented House File 2099, a bill that would appropriate $12 million in fiscal year 2026 and another $12 million in fiscal year 2027 to be distributed equally among Minnesota's 87 counties, 11 federally recognized tribes and four cities of the first class to support local emergency-management functions.
Johnson said emergency managers coordinate planning, preparedness and recovery and that many local jurisdictions face elimination or consolidation of those positions because of uneven funding. "Without emergency managers in place, our ability to prepare for…
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