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Committee approves bill exempting domestic-violence hotel placements from program room caps
Summary
A committee approved version 9.2 of committee bill 26-766, adding language to exclude hotel stays for people served under 33 VSA 602 (domestic violence services) from program room-cap counts; the measure passed by roll call, with the clerk summarizing the tally as nine yes and one no.
The committee voted to approve version 9.2 of committee bill 26-766, adopting language that exempts hotel and motel placements for people served under 33 VSA 602 (domestic violence services) from the program's room-cap calculations. The motion to approve the committee bill was made during the meeting and carried in a roll-call vote the clerk later summarized as nine yes and one no.
The change adds a subdivision specifying that "room caps established pursuant to this subdivision shall not apply to individuals served under 33 VSA 602," an explicit exemption intended to ensure that hotel placements arranged under the domestic and sexual violence services section do not count against time limits or caps elsewhere in the…
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