Amendment S-3117 to SF 627
Authorizing length of service award programs for volunteer fire fighters, volunteer emergency medical care providers, and reserve peace officers, and making appropriations
Ruled out of order · May 14, 2025
Filed April 22, 2025 in the Senate by Sen. Adrian Dickey (R)
What it changes
- Page 2, line 1, after “program.” by inserting “For purposes of this section, “volunteer” means the individual was compensated by the municipality for the individual’s services for less than five thousand dollars per year in the immediately preceding calendar year and in the current calendar year.”
- Page 2, by striking lines 16 through 20 and inserting “application process. The process shall provide for an application period beginning August 1 and ending September 30 of each year for a municipality that has established a length of service award program for volunteer fire fighters, volunteer emergency medical care providers, or reserve peace officers of a department with an annual budget under one hundred thousand dollars. For such municipalities, the process shall provide for a match of three dollars for each dollar contributed by the municipality, in an amount not to exceed three hundred dollars per award recipient per year from the fund. For all other municipalities, the process shall provide for an application period beginning September 1 and ending September 30 of each year, and for up to a dollar-for-dollar funding match in an amount not to exceed three hundred dollars per award recipient per year from the fund. The grant process shall require the”