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Committee reviews emergency-management draft 3.1, debates disability representation and adds $1 million grant appropriation
Summary
Legislative counsel summarized draft 3.1 of the emergency-management omnibus (26-0550), including citation and naming fixes, a feasibility clause for disability-accessible alerting, and a $1 million appropriation for a Ready Response Grant; witnesses urged making lived-experience representatives voting members and fixing 211 failures.
The Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee reviewed draft 3.1 of drafting request 26-0550 on the committee's emergency-management omnibus bill and discussed several edits aimed at clarity, accessibility, and governance. Legislative counsel Tucker Anderson walked members through the changes and the committee heard testimony from Brenda Seagull of End Homelessness Vermont about gaps in real-world emergency response.
Anderson told the committee the draft makes technical and naming fixes and clarifies eligible nonprofits: "This now says Vermont nonprofit organizations qualifying under 26 USC 501c3 so that it's clear we're not talking about only 26 of those organizations," he said, describing a non-substantive relocation of a citation. He also said the bill uses "division" instead of "Vermont Emergency Management" to match Title 20 language and that references to a previously termed "technical rescue microrant program" were standardized to "technical rescue grant program." The draft adds $1 million in subdivision…
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