 Welcome to Vermont House Judiciary Committee. It is 2.14 p.m. Thursday, April 7th. And we are back on S.163 and actually relating to state court petitions for vulnerable non-citizen youth. We were not able to hear from DCS General Counsel Jennifer Bica and she is here today. Welcome, good afternoon. Thank you for waiting a little bit late, so. So I had actually gotten a notice that it was going to be at 2.15 this morning. It had gotten updated. So your committee assistant is on the ball. Okay, well, yeah, worked out well. Thank you. Yes, she is. Hey, so. All right, thank you. My name is Jennifer Mica, General Counsel for Vermont Department for Children and Families. I'm here to testify on S.163 relating to non-citizen youth. And I wanted to just preface this by saying the only reason we got involved in this case on the Senate side is because we were concerned that expanding this bill up to age 21 would implicate DCF guardianship up to that age. And so nobody thought that should be the case. And so there's language in the bill on page seven under section 5126B, which provides for the court's jurisdiction in these cases. And that language states very clearly that it does not intend to expand the jurisdiction of DCF guardianship over these youth. And my understanding from talking to the witness you have from Vermont Law School and Vermont Attorney General's office is that these are always private guardianships. And we certainly have not in the time that the existing statute has been in place. We have not had any involvement in these. I have asked around and we sent out an APB to all the different districts and none of our family services workers has been involved in any of these cases. So we have no objection at all to the statute, to the bill as currently drafted as long as that language stays in there. Okay, thank you. That's very helpful. Thank you. Any questions? Nope, no. All right. Okay, thank you very much. Yeah, thank you. Take care. Take care, bye now. Yep, bye bye.