Committee hears testimony for $150,000 appropriation to Vermont Language Justice Project
The Senate considered S.243, proposing $150,000 for the Department of Health to contract the Vermont Language Justice Project to produce multilingual public-health and emergency materials; witnesses described rapid multilingual video production, wide distribution channels and use in recent crises.
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The Senate Health & Welfare Committee heard testimony in support of S.243, a proposal to appropriate $150,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Health for distribution to the Vermont Language Justice Project (VLJP) to prepare multilingual informational materials for disease outbreaks or other public-health emergencies.
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