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Committee moves to fold language-access, food distribution and rescue funding into emergency-management omnibus bill
Summary
The Government Operations & Military Affairs committee agreed to draft an omnibus emergency-management bill that would include language-access funding, statutory authority for the Vermont Food Bank to assist in disasters, baseline funding for Urban Search and Rescue, a technical-rescue microgrant program, and provisions on fire-management roles; members requested additional testimony and operational detail before final votes.
The Government Operations & Military Affairs committee on Thursday began packaging multiple emergency-management and public-safety requests into a single omnibus committee bill to be drafted after the coming committee break.
Chair members said the vehicle would collect items ranging from language-access support to coordinated food distribution in disasters and long-standing rescue-capacity funding requests. Committee members agreed to include language requested by the Vermont Language Justice Project and to explore statutory language enabling the Vermont Food Bank to coordinate distribution of food, bottled water and transportation when Vermont…
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