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Senate committee hears H.935; sponsors say bill changes allowed uses of earlier public-safety funds while several House appropriations were cut
Summary
Lawmakers and witnesses described H.935 as a technical, program-focused emergency-management bill that would repurpose previously appropriated public-safety communications funds and contains language for new programs; several appropriations (including a Ready Response food-and-water grant) were removed from the Senate budget and will be negotiated with the House.
The Senate Committee on Government Operations took up H.935 on April 21, hearing a fiscal briefing and sponsor testimony about changes to emergency-management programs and the reauthorization of previously appropriated communications funding.
Christopher of the Joint Fiscal Office told the committee the bill does not add new general-fund appropriations but changes allowable uses of money already set aside for public-safety communications. He said the House budget initially included a $500,000 appropriation for a Ready Response grant program to help nonprofits source and store shelf-stable food and bottled water, but "the senate budget construct does not have that" and the item will be a point of negotiation in a conference between the chambers.
Representative Lisa Hango (House Government Operations and Military Affairs Committee), the…
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