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Committee passes amendments expanding grant and training-facility language in school-safety bill
Summary
The House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee passed Amendment 2 to House Bill 16 37, adding compliance language for schools, authorizing the board to finance statewide projects (mapping, data, door locks), restoring local government–owned fire training facilities to an open-burn exemption, and extending a timeline from 'calendar year' to
The House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee voted to pass Amendment 2 to House Bill 16 37, which adds compliance language for schools, authorizes the board to finance statewide safety projects, restores an open-burn exemption for some local government–owned fire training facilities and adjusts timing language for rulemaking and agreements.
Committee members said Amendment 2 responded to concerns raised during the hearing. The sponsor said the changes "give a little teeth" by allowing the board that allocates grants to withhold funding if schools do not comply with certain requests. The amendment also allows the board to finance state-level projects such as mapping programs, data-collection efforts and statewide door-lock initiatives. Testimony referenced local fire training sites that are owned by local units of government; the amendment restores those facilities' ability to conduct open burns without the permit process. The amendment also replaces references to a "calendar year" with a 12-month period for certain agreements and says architects would not serve on the board but could be engaged as consultants for construction-related items like doors.
Committee discussion recorded no opposition to taking the amendment by consent. The committee moved to pass the bill as amended and recorded the final committee vote as 10-0 in favor.
