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Committee reviews competing S.60 and H.229 to create farm security fund; H.229 adds forestry
Summary
Legislative counsel outlined differences between S.60 and H.229 to the House Agriculture Committee, including H.229's inclusion of forestry operations, different application and review requirements, and divergent approaches to initial funding and reporting.
Michael Grady, legislative counsel, briefed the House Agriculture Committee on the differences between two bills that would create a farm security fund to provide grants for losses to agricultural operations caused by eligible weather events.
The briefing highlighted the bills' most consequential differences: H.229 expands the program to include forestry operations and uses the Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation definition of "forestry operation" (10 V.S.A. §2602); the bills differ on required application materials, review timelines, board membership, reporting, and funding intent.
Why it matters: the bills set the scope of a new relief program and how quickly and with what funding it might be available to help farms and forestry operations recover from weather-related losses.
Grady said, “I'm going to run through a quick side by side of s 60 and h 2 29,” and noted that H.229 repeatedly inserts “and forestry operations” where S.60 does not. He summarized committee changes made in the Senate, saying, “the…
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