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House Judiciary panel concurs with Senate to reinstate family-support program for incarcerated parents in S.109
Summary
The House Judiciary Committee agreed to the Senate's changes to S.109 that restore a trauma-informed family support program for incarcerated parents after language that had prompted a gubernatorial veto was removed; committee members discussed funding and implementation at in-state and out-of-state facilities.
The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday agreed to concur with Senate changes to S.109 that restore a family-support program for incarcerated parents, after lawyers removed language the governor's office had said presented a separation-of-powers problem.
The program, previously passed as H.219 but vetoed because it required the Department of Corrections (DOC) to include funding for the program in its budget submission, returns in S.109 with that budget-direction language removed. Eric Dispatcher, legislative counsel with the Office of Legislative Council, told the committee the…
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