H-1354

   Amend House File 1002, as passed by the House, as follows:
   1.  Page 1, line 22, after <program.> by inserting <For purposes of this section, “volunteer” means the individual was compensated by the municipality for the individual's services for less than five thousand dollars per year in the immediately preceding calendar year and in the current calendar year.>
   2.  Page 1, lines 26 and 27, by striking <department of revenue> and inserting <economic development authority>
   3.  Page 1, line 30, by striking <department of revenue> and inserting <economic development authority>
   4.  Page 1, line 34, by striking <department of revenue> and inserting <economic development authority>
   5.  Page 2, line 2, by striking <department>
   6.  Page 2, by striking lines 3 through 5 and inserting <economic development authority. The process shall provide for an application period beginning August 1 and ending September 30 of each year for a municipality that has established a length of service award program for volunteer fire fighters, volunteer emergency medical care providers, or reserve peace officers of a department with an annual budget under one hundred thousand dollars. For such municipalities, the process shall provide for a match of three dollars for each dollar contributed by the municipality, in an amount not to exceed five hundred dollars per person in the program receiving the grant. For all other municipalities, the process shall provide for an application period beginning September 1 and ending September 30 of each year, and for up to a dollar-for-dollar funding match in an amount not to exceed>
   7.  Page 2, line 8, by striking <revenue> and inserting <the economic development authority>
   8.  Page 2, line 20, by striking <department of revenue> and inserting <economic development authority>