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Senate adopts H.493 conference report, trims positions and shifts childcare funding
Summary
The Vermont Senate accepted the committee of conference report on H.493, the fiscal year appropriations bill, agreeing to reduced positions and funding source shifts, and sent the report to the House forthwith.
The Vermont Senate on Tuesday accepted the committee of conference report on H.493, the biennial appropriations bill, approving the report and sending it to the House of Representatives for action.
The report, presented on the floor by the senator from Washington, summarized negotiated changes that trim overall spending and reduce new state positions from the Senate-passed bill. "One of the highlights overall of what we did is we did reduce our spending," the senator said while reviewing a multi-page highlight sheet distributed to senators.
The committee report eliminated 10 positions that had been in the Senate version, moving the total reported positions in the conference document from 38 to 28. The reporter said the net change in the bill’s accounting showed a $21,000,000…
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