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Senate authorizes study committee to explore creating an Office of New Americans
Summary
S.56 will create an eight‑member study committee, chaired by the director of the Vermont Refugee Office, to recommend whether and how to establish an Office of New Americans to better coordinate services and workforce support for immigrants and refugees in Vermont.
The Vermont Senate on March 20 ordered third reading of S.56, a bill that directs creation of a study committee to evaluate establishing an Office of New Americans to coordinate state supports for immigrants, refugees, and other new Americans.
What the study would do
Senator Zechoskie, reporting for the Committee on Government Operations, described the bill as workforce and economic development legislation: the study committee would be chaired by the director of the Vermont Refugee Office and include eight members, among them representatives appointed by the Commissioner of Labor and the Office of Racial Equity, and five…
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