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House Appropriations Committee approves budget-adjustment bill after debate over hotel-based housing program
Summary
The House Appropriations Committee approved a budget-adjustment draft that incorporates House changes to the governor's recommendation and generated heated debate over continued funding and eligibility for the hotel-based General Assistance (GA) housing program; the committee approved the draft on an 8-3 roll call.
The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday reviewed a web report showing House changes to the proposed Budget Adjustment Act and voted to approve the House draft after debate over homeless housing supports and specific line-item adjustments.
The committee's web report, presented by Emily Byrne of the Joint Fiscal Office, outlined where the House altered the governor's recommended budget adjustment, including technical changes to judicial mental-health evaluation contracts, a $1 million reduction in the education line for state-placed students, and shifts to one-time health-related funding that reallocate a $4 million governor recommendation into a $10 million Department of Vermont Health Access line and new provider-stabilization and reconciliation payments. The committee approved draft 205986 on an 8-3 roll call.
The web report: what changed
"What you have in front of you is a web report that now includes the House changes to the bill," Emily Byrne said, describing the document that the committee reviewed.…
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