Permitting Adjutant General to pay employees during federal government shutdown or furlough

Removed detailed provisions regarding hiring powers, employee classification, at-will employment status, and benefits participation.

Modified the bill's title and primary purpose to focus solely on funding furloughed employees rather than general authority management.

Added explicit authority for the Adjutant General to pay employees who worked during a federal government shutdown or furlough once federal funds are received.

Corrected grammatical redundancies in the authority's hiring powers and salary setting duties, changing 'may hire' to 'shall have the power to may hire' and 'will shall set' to 'will shall set'.

Adjusted the phrasing in subsection (c) to clarify that security guards and military firefighters must meet requirements set forth in the specific article of the code.

Corrected grammatical errors in the employee hiring and management provisions to ensure legal clarity.

Added standard enrolled bill certification language, signatures for the Senate and House Clerks, and Governor's signature lines.

Included metadata such as passage date, effective date (90 days from passage), and origin chamber.

Updated a cross-reference in the security guard section from §15-1B-26 to the correct §15-1B-22.

The bill title and sponsor information were updated to reflect committee action, adding Senator Deeds as a co-sponsor and changing the date to February 20, 2026.

Several grammatical errors in the statutory text were corrected, such as changing 'power to may' to 'power to' and fixing inconsistent verb tenses in the salary setting provision.

The description of the shutdown payment authority was slightly expanded to explicitly mention 'any furloughed employees' and list 'furlough' alongside 'shutdown' for clarity.

A standalone explanatory note at the end of the document regarding the purpose of the bill was removed, as the purpose is now integrated into the bill's title and text.