House Agriculture - 2026-01-09 - 10:30AM

Agriculture, Food Resiliency, & Forestry · January 10, 2026

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Chair’s opening and reference to prior briefing

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Chair Durfee (chair) opened the session by recalling testimony in November, noting the committee had previously heard from one or two witnesses about Bridges to Health and that the program had been mostly off this committee’s radar; welcomed the morning’s witness.

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Witness Anora Horton of Hunger Free Vermont asked the Agriculture, Food Resiliency, & Forestry committee to include $167,700 in the FY26 Budget Adjustment Act to fund a transition for the Bridges to Health outreach program after UVM indicated it will no longer house the program. Committee members asked about program scope, prior funding, and service needs for migrant and immigrant farmworkers.

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