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Victim-notification, VINE improvements and marriage-license fee repeal win support in S.109 testimony
Summary
Witnesses told the Judiciary Committee they support Section 31 (earned-time victim notification) and Section 32 (a VINE improvements task force) in draft S.109, and thanked the committee for removing the sunset on marriage-license fees in the revised bill.
Committee testimony on April 10 included several provisions in draft S.109 that affect victims’ services and court funding. Charlie Glisserman, policy director at the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, told lawmakers the network supports language in Section 31 that would improve victim notification of earned time and supports Section 32, which creates a task force to review VINE, Vermont’s victim-notification system.
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