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Committee continues markup of H.91, debates goals, appeals and separate domestic-violence shelter program
Summary
Committee leaders and stakeholders continued markup of H.91 on multiple pieces of feedback, focusing on three substantive areas: how the bill states the long-term goal for homelessness in Vermont, whether the law must require a legally sufficient appeals process with expedited review, and whether to establish a separate Vermont domestic-violence and sexual-violence shelter and emergency housing program managed by the Vermont Network.
Committee leaders and stakeholders continued markup of H.91 on multiple pieces of feedback, focusing on three substantive areas: how the bill states the long-term goal for homelessness in Vermont, whether the law must require a legally sufficient appeals process with expedited review, and whether to establish a separate Vermont domestic-violence and sexual-violence shelter and emergency housing program.
The committee chair (name not specified) opened the session by noting the group would review feedback on the current H.91 draft, version 3.1, and said the committee would first address the bill's findings language about unsheltered homelessness. The chair acknowledged public testimony, including a family that later lost a child while temporarily housed in a hotel, and said the committee should recognize those harms while also writing achievable statutory language.
Members discussed two-tiered wording: an aspirational statement that the state aims for homelessness to be "rare, brief, and nonrecurring" and a…
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