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Committee reviews draft H 811 to clean statutory language on Adjutant General; members flag inspector-general concerns
Summary
The House Government Operations & Military Affairs committee reviewed draft H 811, a 21-page bill that adds a cross-reference for the election of the Adjutant General and removes references to an "inspector general" across Title 20 statutes; members raised concerns about preserving impartial inspector-general functions.
The House Government Operations & Military Affairs committee reviewed a draft omnibus military bill referred to in the transcript as H 811 during a meeting for which no calendar date was provided.
Sophie Sedatny of the Office of Legislative Council told the committee the draft is 21 pages and began as a short-form bill to add a cross-reference so that readers of Title 20 can find the election procedure for the Adjutant General in Title 2. "This is a 21 page bill, but it will not take me 21 minutes to go through it," Sedatny said as she began the walkthrough.
Sedatny said the main substantive change is to remove the phrase "and inspector general" from multiple statutory provisions and to modernize a few places of gendered language and tighten wording. She described the package as a…
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