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Committee reviews bill to retain marriage-license surcharge funding for domestic-violence services
Summary
The Ways & Means Committee on Jan. 10 reviewed H.6, a bill that would remove a sunset on a portion of the marriage-license fee that helps fund Vermont—s domestic and ****** violence special fund, but did not take a formal vote.
The Ways & Means Committee on Jan. 10 reviewed H.6, a bill that would remove a sunset on a portion of the marriage-license fee that helps fund Vermont—s domestic and ****** violence special fund, but did not take a formal vote.
Representative Martin Malone, of South Burlington and chair of the House Judiciary Committee, told the committee the bill "is a straightforward bill" that would "remove a sunset" on the fee increase enacted after revenues to the special fund declined. "The domestic and ****** violence special fund was established in 2,008. It set forth in 13 VSA section 5360," Malone said, and he identified the Vermont Center for Crime Victim Services as the fund—s administrator.
Malone said the fund supports…
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