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Senator corrects obsolete verification form in floor amendment affecting emergency housing benefit
Summary
Senators adopted a floor amendment that removes a reference to an obsolete COVID-era form and directs a state department to create a verification form for the vulnerable-household category of an emergency housing benefit; the sponsor emphasized the change is time-sensitive.
During floor consideration following committee reports, Senator from Caledonia (speaker 5) offered an amendment to correct language in previously enacted budget adjustment legislation that had referenced a pandemic-era form which no longer exists. The senator said the Legislature intended not to rely on a self-declaration form and therefore the amendment ‘‘provides clarity around the intent, correct, and eliminate the reference to a form, an obsolete form, and just,…
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