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OR HCR5

Concurrent Resolution

Official Source

Status

Failed

6/27/2025

Primary Sponsor

Paul Evans

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025 Legislative Measures

AI Summary

  • Legislative Assembly expresses intent to appropriate General Fund dollars to the Department of Veterans' Affairs at least equal to the 2015-2017 biennium funding level, adjusted for inflation
  • Responds to Ballot Measure 96 (passed November 8, 2016), which dedicated lottery proceeds to veterans' services and was intended to supplement—not replace—existing General Fund support
  • Inflation adjustment calculated by dividing the Consumer Price Index for December 2024 by the Consumer Price Index for December 2014
  • Debt service payments from the 2015-2017 biennium are excluded from the baseline funding calculation
  • Uses the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, West Region (All Items) published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Legislative Description

Resolving that the Legislative Assembly should appropriate from the General Fund to the Department of Veterans' Affairs an amount that is no less than the amount appropriated in the biennium beginning July 1, 2015, as adjusted.

Last Action

In committee upon adjournment.

6/27/2025

Committee Referrals

Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans1/17/2025

Full Bill Text

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