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House retains grant program for recent migrants after floor debate over federal funding risk
Summary
Lawmakers voted to keep a state welcome-and-integration grant program that prioritizes people who arrived within the past three years for assistance from community organizations. An amendment to condition the program on continued federal funding or to restrict beneficiaries to legally arrived immigrants was rejected.
The House on March 28 passed a technical fix to a program created last year that provides grants to community-based organizations helping newly arrived migrants. House Bill 12 44 modifies the program’s applicant-definition to prioritize people who have arrived in the United States within the past three years.
Nut graf: Lawmakers spent substantial time debating whether expanding the definition from one year to three years risked jeopardizing federal funding for some related programs and whether the state should limit its support to migrants who entered legally or who are pursuing legal status. Amendments to impose those conditions failed and the underlying cleanup was adopted.
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