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Amendment to emergency management bill adds spending guardrails, reporting and $500,000 for ready-response grants
Summary
Representative Felvis presented amendments to the emergency management bill to clarify release of previously appropriated public-safety communications funds, extend spending to three years, require periodic reports, and appropriate $500,000 to a ready-response grant program; members signaled informal support.
The House Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee on March 24 examined amendments to an emergency management bill (referred to in the hearing as bill 935) that add detail to public-safety communications work and set reporting and spending guardrails. Representative Felvis, presenting the changes from appropriations, said the intent was to make the statute’s requirements more concrete and to limit automatic release of previously reserved funds without legislative review.
Felvis told the committee the amendment replaces the former section 12 with a new structure. In subsection a, the amendment requires that money previously…
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