The House Defense and Veteran’s Affairs Committee met on March 15th to take up a number of bills. This report covers discussion on HB 33 and HB 139, which were laid out in their March 8 hearing. A video of the hearing can be found here.

 

This report is intended to give you an overview and highlight of the discussions on the various topics the committee took up. It is not a verbatim transcript of the hearing but is based upon what was audible or understandable to the observer and the desire to get details out as quickly as possible with few errors or omissions.

 

HB 33 (Dominguez) – Relating to measures to facilitate the award of postsecondary course credit leading to workforce credentialing based on military experience, education, and training

HB 33 is unanimously voted to be sent out of committee

 

HB 139 – (Buckley et al.) (CS) – Relating to state occupational licensing of certain military veterans and military spouses

  • Raymond – Do we need to discuss the changes in this bill?
    • They were laid out last week

HB 139 is unanimously voted to be sent out of committee