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Without federal funding, state needs $2.7 million for juvenile facility
A soccer ball is snared in razor wire at the Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center in Essex. Photo by Sara Priestap/Valley News The Vermont Department for Children and Families is asking the...
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House panel unanimously passes budget adjustment
Rep. Kitty Toll, D-Danville, center, presides over the House Appropriations Committee at the Statehouse on Tuesday. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The House Appropriations Committee unanimously passed...
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Report on Vermont Health Connect finances added to budget adjustment
Members of the House vote on the 2015 budget adjustment act Thursday. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDiggerAn extra measure for oversight of Vermont Health Connect was slipped into the FY2015 budget...
View ArticleSenate gives preliminary OK to budget adjustment bill
The Senate gave preliminary approval to the 2015 Budget Adjustment Act on Wednesday by a roll call vote of 27-2. Sen. Jane Kitchel, D-Caledonia, presented an overview of the budget bill with a...
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Lawmakers question $3 million cost of cystic fibrosis drug
An update on budget changes within the Agency of Human Services turned into a discussion on whether the state should challenge pharmaceutical companies over high prices. Members of the House...
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House endorses budget adjustment, after some wrangling
House Speaker Shap Smith, D-Morrisville, during floor discussion Tuesday. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDiggerHouse lawmakers gave a preliminary stamp of approval Tuesday to a bill that would increase...
View ArticleSenate passes budget adjustment
The Senate passed a bill Wednesday that adjusts the current fiscal year budget. The vote was 25 to 4. The Senate Appropriations Committee made few changes to the adjustment bill that passed the House...
View ArticleHouse approves budget adjustment bill
The House approved a bill adjusting the current year’s budget on a voice vote Tuesday. The annual legislation trues up the budget for fiscal year 2016 to reflect pressures from the first half of the...
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Scott administration proposes plan to fill $200 million budget gap
Administration officials, including Commissioner of Finance and Management Adam Greshin, outlined a plan to close the state budget gap. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger VTDigger posts regular...
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Final Reading: Retired state employees protest ‘Medicare Dis-Advantage’
"It is irresponsible. It is reckless and it is reprehensible to put retirees in fear that they will lose their health care and be forced into risky, controversial Medicare Advantage plans," said...
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Senate advances spending bill that extends emergency housing through June —...
“I feel a bit like Solomon here,” Sen. Jane Kitchel, D-Caledonia, the committee’s chair, said about the budget adjustment bill. “How do you split the baby?” Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger About 2,800...
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Final Reading: Vermont State University faculty and students ask lawmakers to...
Students, staff, faculty and alumni from Vermont State University packed the Statehouse’s Cedar Creek Room Tuesday and later met with Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman in his office. Photo by Lisa Gerlach At...
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Spending package extending emergency housing becomes law without Scott’s...
Gov. Phil Scott delivers his budget address to a joint session of the Legislature at the Statehouse in Montpelier in January. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Gov. Phil Scott will allow a...
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