SB1326
Core emergency management functions; DEM to study reliance on federal grants.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Department of Emergency Management; work groups related to the Commonwealth's response to the COVID-19 pandemic; report.
Directs the Department of Emergency Management to convene work groups to (i) study the reliance of the Commonwealth and its localities on federal grants for core emergency management functions, (ii) study and develop a comprehensive legal and regulatory framework to take effect during a disaster for which a state of ... (More) emergency has been declared, and (iii) study and develop solutions to address breaks in technology continuity among communities across the Commonwealth during emergencies. The bill directs each work group to complete its work and report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly no later than November 30, 2025. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee to Study Pandemic Response and Preparedness in the Commonwealth. This bill incorporates SB 1325. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/12/2025 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-12-2025 25102605D
- 01/12/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 01/24/2025 - Senate: Incorporates SB1325(Roem)
- 01/24/2025 - Senate: Reported from Rules with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 01/24/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25105814D-S1
- 01/29/2025 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1326)
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Read second time
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Rules Substitute agreed to
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/2025 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/06/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/06/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 02/16/2025 - House: Placed on Rules Agenda
- 02/17/2025 - House: Tabled in Rules (18-Y 0-N)
