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Vermont House Appropriations Committee begins BAA markup amid federal funding uncertainty
Summary
The House Appropriations Committee began markup of the Budget Adjustment Act on Jan. 15, 2026, checking several noncontroversial items and deferring human services and major IT and corrections questions while staff provide follow-up spreadsheets and presentations.
The Vermont House Appropriations Committee convened Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, to begin markup of the Budget Adjustment Act, reviewing spreadsheets and resolving routine technical adjustments while deferring larger policy and IT questions for later sessions.
Committee members framed the session as a first pass to "true up" amounts the Legislature previously committed and to identify issues that require fuller briefings. "The truing up part... is really about truing up things that were in the budget that we committed to last year," said Speaker 2. Members emphasized that adding new funding for programs would be an explicit choice rather than a mechanical correction.
The panel discussed multiple areas of near-term pressure. Speaker 4 used Vermonters Feeding Vermonters as an example of a group that requested $2,000,000 last year but received $500,000; Speaker 4 asked whether the BAA should be used to restore…
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