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Committee considers technical changes to military justice code; vote recorded by voice with ambivalent transcript record
Summary
Members reviewed technical amendments to last year’s military justice changes (referenced as act 24-329) including lowering some military-justice review from brigade to battalion and consolidating enlisted pay-grade language; the committee held a voice vote after the presentation but the transcript provides an unclear record of the tally.
The Military and Veterans Affairs committee reviewed technical amendments tied to last year’s military justice changes (identified in the hearing as act 24-329) and discussed House Bill 285, which the sponsor described as largely clarifying and technical in nature.
Steven Morris, identified in the hearing as a representative of the State Military Department, told the committee the amendments make several drafting fixes and one substantive operational change: they allow certain military-justice proceedings or review panels to be constituted at the brigade or battalion level, rather than…
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