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Committee amendment makes flood buyouts a discretionary use of resilience grants, not a standalone program
Summary
May 8, 2025 — The Senate Government Operations Committee reviewed draft 1.3 of its amendment to H.397, which removes a stand‑alone, mandatory voluntary buyout program from the House bill and instead adds voluntary buyouts for flood‑impacted properties as a discretionary use of the Community Resilience and Disaster Mitigation Grant program (20 V.S.A. §48).
May 8, 2025 — The Senate Government Operations Committee reviewed draft 1.3 of its amendment to H.397, which removes a stand‑alone, mandatory voluntary buyout program from the House bill and instead adds voluntary buyouts for flood‑impacted properties as a discretionary use of the Community Resilience and Disaster Mitigation Grant program (20 V.S.A. §48).
Why it matters: The House version created a separate buyout program but did not appropriate funding to operate it. The amendment keeps buyouts in scope but authors said it shifts the program from a mandated, separate authority to an allowed use of an existing grant fund, which only…
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