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Minutes for HB2020 - Committee on Veterans and Military
Short Title
Requiring the Kansas commission on veterans affairs office to submit an initial application for a VA state veterans home construction grant.
Minutes Content for Thu, Feb 18, 2021
The Chairperson requested approval of the minutes of the Thursday, February 9, 2021 meeting. Motion to approve the minutes was made by Vice Chariperson Ellis and seconded by Ranking Minority Ruiz. Motion carried.
The Chairperson opened the hearing on HB2020. Conferees appearing before the Committee:
- Senator Jeff Pittman (Attachment 1)
- Representative Pat Proctor (Attachment 2)
- Representative Timothy Johnson (Attachment 3)
- Gregg Burden, Director, Kansas Commission on Veterans' Affairs Office (Attachment 4)
- Herb Mayfield, retired Federal Employee (Attachment 5)
All Conferees stood for questions from committee members.
Written testimony was provided by the following individuals:
- Representative David French (Attachment 6),
- Representative Christopher Croft (Attachment 7) ,
- Colonel Lynn Rolf, retired (Attachment 8),
- Jack Parish, Veteran (Attachment 9),
- Michael Kelly, Colonel, United States Air Force (Attachment 10);
- Branden Jones, Veteran (Attachment 11);
- Scott Blaney, Veteran (Attachment 12)
- Carol Blaney, Wife of Scott (Attachment 13)
- Barry Shultz, US Army, retired (Attachment 14)
- Rodger Benefiel,Veteran United States Air Force (Attachment 15)
- April Beaty, RN,BSN (Attachment 16)
- Herb Schwartzhopf, Adjutant/Quartermaster, Kansas Veterans Foreign Wars (Attachment 17);
- Daniel Stueckemann, VFW Post 11499 Quartermaster (Attachment 18)
There were no opponents or neutral for HB2020
The Chairperson closed the hearing on HB2020. Representative Neelly motioned to suspend the rules to allow final action on HB2020, Motion was seconded by Representative Collins. Motion carried. Representative Proctor motioned to pass HB2020 out of committee. Motion was seconded by Representative Johnson. Motion carried. unanimously. Let it be noted that all committee members wanted their support for this motion to be recorded. There were no nays. With no further business before the committee, the meeting was adjourned by the Chairperson at 10:00am The next regularly scheduled meeting is Tuesday, February 23 and is "on call of the chair".
