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House concurs on S.310, advancing natural-disaster response and resiliency fund despite removal of survivor benefit
Summary
The House suspended rules, took up Senate Bill 310, and concurred in the Senate's amendment by voice vote. Lawmakers praised the bill’s urban search-and-rescue codification and a community disaster resilience fund but several members expressed disappointment that a proposed survivor benefit expansion was removed by the Senate.
The House took up Senate Bill 310 relating to natural-disaster government response, recovery and resiliency and, after debate, concurred in the Senate proposal of amendment by voice vote. The session included floor explanations of the bill’s core elements, expressions of disappointment from several members about a removed survivor-benefits provision, and a motion to message the House’s action to the Senate forthwith.
Speaker 4, a representative, summarized the change the Senate made when S.310 returned to the House, saying the Senate removed a floor…
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