The House Appropriations Committee heard a FY27 budget briefing from the Vermont Center for Crime Victim Services on Feb. 6, 2026, including a $145,357.43 request (largely to preserve a 3% COLA and limited administrative support), concerns about decade-long declines in special funds, impacts to supervised visitation and restitution programs, and an unexplained $30,000-a-year transfer from the restitution special fund to the Department of Labor.