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​House Passes Rep. Meredith’s Bill to Secure Permanent Pay Raise Law Enforcement, Qualified Volunteer Fire Depts.

2/24/2017

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FRANKFORT, Ky. (February 24, 2017) – Today, the House passed a measure to secure permanent pay raises for law enforcement and firefighters and increase annual allotments to qualified volunteer fire departments. House Bill 60, sponsored by Rep. Michael Meredith, R-Brownsville, makes raises that were implemented in the 2016 Regular Session permanent.
 
“Our first responders are dedicated to ensuring the safety of our communities,” said Rep. Meredith. “Public safety workers face unprecedented threats these days and I firmly believe they should be compensated to the best of our state’s ability. I commend the House for swiftly passing this measure, and I look forward to its consideration in the Senate.”

House Bill 60 seeks to solve the pay disparity that exists for law enforcement and firefighters, and help retain and attract dedicated servants. The measure also increases annual allotments to volunteer fire departments from $8,250 to $11,000 to help with the purchase of needed equipment.  As the country sees a rise in on-the-job fatalities, particularly in law enforcement, pay raises for those who put themselves in the line of danger while on the job are becoming more and more necessary.
 
The measure now heads to the Senate for consideration.

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Dist. 2 Constable Office
2/24/2017 12:52:17 pm

THANK YOU to Rep Meredith , whom has been a long time support of Ky Volunteers !!

Now PLEASE support some variation of HB279 and FORCE training for Ky Constables ( Ky's law enforcement volunteers)

Complaints of Constables being " UNTRAINED" can be SOLVED with this one single bill, if the legislators CHOOSE to NOT IGNORE it.
Should this bill pass, requiring training, then no one can say Constables are untrained !!

My personal guess is, that legislators will simply choose to ignore the HB 279, and pretend it was never there, or they just didn't have time to get to it (for the 8th year) . Let's hope common sense can prevail !

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