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Committee passes a series of local-government bills including vacancy procedures and election filing clarification
Summary
On voice votes the committee passed several municipal and local-government bills: a police leave clarification, SB297 on municipal election ordinance filing, district bills combining treasurer/collector offices, HB1555 on vacancy procedures, and HB1414 updating FEMA equipment rates for volunteer fire departments.
The House City, County & Local Affairs Committee approved a number of relatively uncontroversial municipal and local-government measures on voice votes.
An early bill (sponsor Representative Tosh) clarified that leave accruals for police officers apply to full-time officers; municipalities retain discretion to award leave to part-time officers. The measure passed with no public testimony.
Senate Bill 297, presented by Senator Kim Hammer with Jonathan Kendricks (attorney for…
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