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Committee considers removing disability registries from emergency bill, seeks alternatives
Summary
Legislative counsel warned that striking a ban on disability registries from draft 2.3 of the omnibus emergency management bill would eliminate an existing practice without replacing it; lawmakers debated referencing the voluntary CARE program and expanding outreach rather than banning registries outright.
The Government Operations & Military Affairs committee revisited draft 2.3 of an omnibus emergency management bill and spent substantial time debating a provision that would prohibit certain disability registries, a move legislative counsel warned could leave some residents without planned evacuation assistance.
"Afternoon — Tucker Anderson, Legislative Council, here to bring legal perspective and analysis," Anderson said as he opened the panel’s legal review and flagged a key concern: the bill removes the registries while the state-level high-rise evacuation rules that might have replaced them were not included in…
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