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Committee advances S.232 edits to allow library staff training and explores cannabis-fund allocation
Summary
Legislative staff presented line-by-line amendments to S.232 to allow early‑education grant funds to pay for training of public library staff and to clean up library statutes; the Department of Libraries stressed the limits of its current $350 summer grants and witnesses proposed directing a portion of cannabis sales tax revenue to expand library programming.
Legislative staff walked the Education Committee through proposed, line‑by‑line amendments to S.232 that would add public library staff training to the list of allowable uses for voluntary early‑education grant funds and replace several statutory sections to remove obsolete language.
The amendment packet presented by staff describes three principal changes: adding public library staff to the subsection of permitted training recipients; striking and replacing Section 5 to simplify a set of granular edits; and rewriting Section 6 to resolve ambiguities about how municipal bodies may or may not appoint trustees of privately established but municipally supported libraries.
Catherine Delnao, State Librarian and…
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