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Bill would open legacy grants to ethnic multilingual community media; Beimong TV and other outlets highlighted
Summary
A bill advanced by Representative Vang would allow legacy grants to support ethnic and multilingual community media; Beimong (Be Hmong) TV described its two‑decade history of Hmong-language coverage and large social-media reach. House File 2278 was laid over for possible inclusion; the transcript did not specify an appropriation amount.
Representative Liebling Vang presented a proposal to direct legacy arts and cultural heritage funding toward ethnic and multilingual community media, telling the committee the support would target public, educational and governmental programming that provides language access.
Yang Yee Lor, host and producer for Beimong (Be Hmong) TV, described more than two decades of…
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