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Advocates seek $450,000 baseline and $717,000 for supervised visitation programs
Summary
Committee heard advocates ask to convert a one-time $450,000 appropriation into base funding for domestic-violence services and separately requested $717,000 for a statewide supervised-visitation system; members asked staff to clarify distribution and whether the visitation request belongs in the human-services budget.
Speakers at the Feb. 17 House Judiciary Committee meeting described two related funding requests from victim-service advocates: making last year’s $450,000 one-time appropriation part of the base and funding a $717,000 statewide supervised-visitation program.
Speaker 1 told the committee the $450,000 was the network’s top priority and that the $717,000 visitation system, while important, was a less pressing ask because of its larger cost. "We had $450,000…
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