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Committee places emergency-management credentialing bill on consent after brief debate
Summary
Representative Chris Fugate and Kentucky Emergency Management director Eric Gibson presented HB 767 to create a Kentucky qualification system for incident-management and emergency-operations personnel; the committee adopted a substitute and title amendment, recorded no fiscal note in committee, and placed the bill on consent.
Representative Chris Fugate and Eric Gibson of Kentucky Emergency Management described House Bill 767 as a straightforward authorization to institute and maintain a Kentucky qualification system to credential incident-management teams and emergency‑operations personnel.
"Kentucky qualification system establishes qualification procedures, certification programs, and credentialing standards for management teams for professionals involved in disaster and incident management," Fugate told the committee, summarizing that the system will allow Kentucky personnel to be qualified to work across states as the authority having jurisdiction.
Committee members asked procedural questions; a question about a fiscal note drew a response that there was none reported in committee. The committee adopted the committee substitute, approved a title amendment, and moved the bill to consent. Committee members offered brief thanks to emergency-management staff for their recent work.
What happens next: HB 767 was placed on the committee consent calendar and will proceed to the full Senate for floor consideration.
