2025 bills / H.B. 239
H.B. 239 Disaster Funds Revisions (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
According to the official description, this bill:
- defines terms
- modifies provisions related to the State Disaster Recovery Restricted Account to change the amounts that may be expended by the Division of Emergency Management under certain conditions
- renames the Response, Recovery, and Post-disaster Mitigation Restricted Account as the Disaster Response, Recovery, and Mitigation Restricted Account (account)
- modifies the amounts of funds available from the account for disaster response and recovery under specified circumstances
- modifies the available uses for funds in the account to include pre-disaster mitigation under certain circumstances
- modifies standards relating to disaster response and recovery grants
- grants rulemaking authority to the Division of Emergency Management regarding the use of funds from the account for pre-disaster mitigation purposes
- requires the Division of Finance to transfer certain funds from the State Disaster Recovery Restricted Account into the account under certain conditions
- makes technical and conforming changes
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Every vote
- 11 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to approve it · 2/3/2025 2:31 PMWho voted how
- 73 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFinal House vote · 2/11/2025 3:11 PMWho voted how
- 3 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to approve it · 2/18/2025 5:28 PMWho voted how
- 20 yes, 0 no, 9 absentFirst of two Senate votes · 2/26/2025 11:46 AMWho voted how
- 26 yes, 0 no, 3 absentFinal Senate vote · 2/27/2025 11:25 AM