 Good afternoon and welcome to Vermont House Judiciary Committee. This afternoon, we are considering an amendment from the Committee on Appropriations on H183, which is an act relating to sexual violence. And here from the Appropriations Committee is Representative Trevor Squirrel. So welcome so much. I think this is the first time that you've visited with us. So appreciate you looking at this bill and coming to visit with us. Thank you so much. Well, thank you. And for the record representative Squirrel representing the House Appropriations Committee. Excuse me. And I want to thank you for bringing H183 to our committee is certainly very important issue. We were joined by pledge council and representative Colburn in our committee, did a great job of going through the bill. And of course, being an appropriations section we're concerned about is section seven, which is the appropriations section. And when we had a discussion. And there were certain elements of that section that we wanted to change and met. And so if it's okay with you, I'll just go through those changes. This is my first year on appropriations, but it's my understanding that when we have an appropriation for committee that appropriations like to break out the per diem costs and other costs. So that was the first change that we made. We said we didn't change the dollar amounts we just broke it out from the 13,000 to the 1111,990 and the per diem costs of 1010 so that first section from your bill, essentially became two pieces to subsections. The, the other changes, the other issues that we've had is that your original bill was soul sourcing the appropriation to a non state entity in the case of the Vermont network. We think the Vermont network does wonderful work there's no question about that but it's not a practice that we'd like to do. So we had a conversation with with lunch council and with representative Colburn after the presentation to sort of talk about. Well, we think one of the solutions is to appropriate this money to the center for crime victim services, which does have a very strong relationship with people that do this work and and let them do the granting to staff the intercollegiate sexual violence prevention council and take care of expenses and all the other things to do to do that work. And, and following on those changes that required us to change other sections in your original section be your appropriate $40,000 for the Vermont forensic nursing program. So we made a change there, and we're, we're appropriating that money again to the center for crime victim services to provide a grant for this purpose. Okay. So the other couple things that we we asked for was to sort of. Maybe put a little bit more meat around what the purpose of the Vermont forensic nursing program is and sort of specify that. And also we felt there should be some reporting requirements there. And, and we have suggested for lunch council suggested. And by the way, Michelle was great working with us on that because our bandwidth is so limited on doing this work right now. There was a call for report on before January 15, 2022. And again, we swapped out the Vermont network for the center for crime victim services but obviously they can do it doesn't need or have somebody else make that report that's that's not an issue for us. And then a follow up report on November 1, 2022, regarding how the program is worked. So in a nutshell, I think that's, that's the nature of the amendment. By the way, the vote was 11,000. Thank you. Thank you very much and actually the, I never heard the soul sourcing I never heard that that that turn but it does make sense and and in the past we have seen the center for crime victim services be a pass through so so this seems consistent and I'll turn to representative Coburn and in a minute but I know that she has been in touch with the, with the network. And we, I did also hear from the network who who does support, who does support this change so. Okay, yeah, so I certainly thank you because this is really important work and appreciate the committee taking it up at a late, at a late hour, and getting back to us so Selena do you want to add anything. I'm not a lot to add great. Great presentation by representatives world and we had a really good conversation with appropriations committee and was really grateful to them for their work and their questions which I think is to make things even clearer about the intent of the appropriation and how it will be used. I did work with Sarah Robinson at the network, along with Michelle and helping to kind of craft some language for appropriations to use as a starting point. And so, in addition to the network supporting this language has been run by crime victim services center, and they're supportive as well and eager and happy to essentially play this role of contracting out with the network. We did learn that they usually take a kind of an administrative overhead and they have that we originally have tried to craft some language around that but they anyway the the network and the crime victim services center have kind of worked out behind the scenes how this network and so there won't be the usual my understanding is there won't be like the usual administrative overhead that they might otherwise charge here that the amendment itself doesn't address that but that was good to hear and yeah, I'm just very grateful to the appropriations committee for their work and their good questions and their support. Great, well thank you and thank you Selena for for taking the lead on this any committee members any questions for representatives squirrel. Not seeing any. Well thank you so I would entertain a motion to treat this as a favorable amendment and we can just do a show of hands. So back of emotion. Great. I'll second. Okay. Wonderful. All those in favor of treating draft 2.1 as a favorable amendment please show by a raise of hands. Okay, all those opposed. Over the hands. Okay. Great. And so Selena you'll so it's unanimous I just checking because I came in just a minute late to make sure everybody's here is anybody. This case still here she was here a minute ago. Yeah. Okay, so we're 11 00. Okay, great. Okay, great. And so you'll, you'll report this vote in addition to the bill. Great. Well Trevor thank you so much. Well thank you and have a good evening. Yeah, you too. Thanks. Okay, so committee I didn't think it would be fair to do anything else today. It's a long day and I'm sure some of us still have meetings. So before we go off offline anything for the record before we adjourn. Nope. Okay, great.