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House funds $1 million package to assist workers hit by defense downsizing
Summary
House passed House Bill 358 to create a governor-directed program for workers displaced by Department of Defense downsizing; members reduced the appropriation to $1,000,000 via amendment and emphasized using funds to attract industry and support entrepreneurship as well as retraining.
Representative Grant Proxman presented HB 358 to address job losses from defense downsizing, telling the House it would help workers and related businesses statewide and cited estimates that between 3,000 and 5,000 people could be affected within a year. The bill would appropriate funds to the governor for coordinating assistance to (1) Department of Defense…
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