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Veterans and Military Affairs Committee raises six bill concepts, advances emergency response funding concept
Summary
On Feb. 17 the Veterans and Military Affairs Committee voted to raise six bill concepts for public hearings, including a budget-neutral proposal to create an emergency response fund to let the state military department deploy for governor-activated emergencies more quickly.
Madam Chair opened the Feb. 17 meeting of the Veterans and Military Affairs Committee and moved to raise six bill concepts for public hearings. The committee voted to raise the concepts after a motion from Representative Boyd and a second from Representative Heffernan.
The chair described one concept, No. 4, as a proposal to create a budget-neutral emergency response funding mechanism for the state military department so the National Guard can be deployed to respond to state active-duty emergencies more quickly. “There have been moments in time in our state's history where our National Guard has been deployed to act to a state level emergency and the time that it takes for money to be moved from the…
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