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Relating to budgets of local emergency management agencies and including applicability provisions
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 5, 2026
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 5, 2026
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2026 session adjourned on May 3, 2026, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Local emergency management commissions usually decide how to fund their agencies, but this change adds a new rule for certain taxes. If a commission wants to use a special countywide levy to pay for its budget, the county board of supervisors must approve it first. This rule will start applying to budgets for fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 2027.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to budgets of local emergency management agencies. Code section 29C.17(2) specifies the methods and sources for funding a local emergency management agency and provides that such methods and sources are determined by the local emergency management commission. The bill specifies an exception to the commission’s authority by providing that if the funding source is a countywide special levy, such levy must be approved by the board of supervisors. The bill applies to local emergency management agency budgets for fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 2027.
House subcommittee
Named February 10, 2026. On February 24, 2026 it recommended passage.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
7 written public comments to its subcommittee: February 24, 2026 (6), February 12, 2026 (1) · on the Legislature’s site
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Earlier and later bills are matched by wording or an identical title.
Tried before
This idea has been filed in 2 earlier General Assemblies. None got through a chamber.
- HF 117 Relating to budgets of local emergency management agencies and including applicability pro…90th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passage · same titleCleared committee
- HF 2141 Relating to budgets of local emergency management agencies and including applicability pro…90th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- HF 126 Relating to budgets of local emergency management agencies and including applicability pro…90th General Assembly · Renumbered as HF 546 · same titleCleared committee
- HF 546 Relating to budgets of local emergency management agencies and including applicability pro…90th General Assembly · Renumbered as HF 705 · same titleCleared committee
- HF 705 Relating to budgets of local emergency management agencies and including applicability pro…90th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- SF 41 Relating to budgets of local emergency management agencies and including applicability pro…90th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 352 · same titleCleared committee
- SF 2072 Relating to budgets of local emergency management agencies and including applicability pro…89th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- HF 2086 Relating to the approval of local emergency management agency budgets and including applic…89th General Assembly · In committee · similarCleared committee
Matched by wording or an identical title.