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Committee roundup: farm security fund, VEGI approval for packing-house project, and bills flagged for follow-up
Summary
Committee members used the April 25 meeting to flag outgoing Senate and executive-branch items for follow-up, including S60, a VEGI application approval for Vermont Packing House, and several bills that may affect traffic enforcement, broadband consumer protection and building energy standards.
Committee members used the meeting to flag other legislation and agency items for follow-up.
One committee member reported that the Senate passed S60, which creates a Farm Security Special Fund to provide grants for farm and forestry losses and to add forestry operations to the fund’s scope. The reporter said the law as drafted would authorize grants up to $150,000 for a single farm or forestry operation in a year; the Senate did not appropriate…
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