Committee recommends midyear budget adjustments for health agencies amid caseload and contract pressures A legislative policy committee reviewed midyear adjustments across health and human services agencies, endorsing administrative reallocations to cover higher mental-health utilization, contractor costs and IT migrations while noting no new policy was proposed; the committee will send a recommendation letter to Appropriations.

Vermont's legislative committee just endorsed significant budget shifts to address rising mental health service demands and contractor costs, but no new policies were proposed.

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