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State lawmakers are working to plan for future will future natural disasters in the Commonwealth.

Today, a Senate committee passed a resolution establishing the disaster prevention and resiliency Task Force Senate concurrent resolution.

67 is sponsored by state Senator Robin Webb, a Democrat.

The resolution acknowledges that Kentucky has experienced more frequent and more destructive natural disasters, quote, as a result of shifting weather patterns.

Senator Webb explained the goal of the task force while speaking to the Senate Committee on Veterans, Military Affairs and public Protection this morning.

>> This is kind of novel approach.

A couple other states are trying medicine and their concerns and issues a little different than ours.

Kentucky's weather patterns have been precedent from a historical standpoint from the west of the east.

Recently we had the all 120 counties under a flash flood warning and that was president.

This task force will bring individuals together to identify real sc's.

Resilience factors how the state can best prepare.

and then mitigation and remediation and and hopefully those other issues such as you know, insurance we withering insurance market for individuals, homes and property and the federal response.

Federal, state, local interaction, agencies and technologies that municipalities and states can use to lessen the impact of these weather events along with response and communication notifications.

We've got to address these historical floods and when the different patterns it's affecting us on standpoint for agriculture.

And business in every aspect of our lives is public safety.

>> The resolution unanimously passed out of committee.

Should it pass both the Senate and House the disaster prevention and resiliency Task force would begin meeting over the interim report.

A report would also be due by December.