2019-2020 Session
Change SessionPR.2
Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
- Sponsor(s)
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- Sen. Deborah Ingram
- Sen. Timothy Ashe
- Sen. M. Jane Kitchel
- Additional Sponsors
- Sen. Rebecca Balint
- Sen. Philip Baruth
- Sen. Joseph Benning
- Sen. Christopher Bray
- Sen. Randolph Brock
- Sen. Brian Campion
- Sen. Alison Clarkson
- Sen. Brian Collamore
- Sen. Ruth Hardy
- Sen. Cheryl Hooker
- Sen. Virginia Lyons
- Sen. Richard Mazza
- Sen. Corey Parent
- Sen. Christopher Pearson
- Sen. Andrew Perchlik
- Sen. Anthony Pollina
- Sen. John Rodgers
- Sen. Richard Sears Jr.
- Sen. Michael Sirotkin
- Sen. Robert Starr
- Sen. Jeanette White
- Less…
- Last Recorded Action
- Senate 1/23/2020 - As adopted by Senate and House
Bill/Resolution Text
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Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Detailed Status
Regular Session 2019-2020
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Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Roll Call History
Regular Session 2019-2020
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Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Committee Meetings
Regular Session 2019-2020
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Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Meeting Full List
Regular Session 2019-2020
Thursday, January 31, 2019
- Committee(s):
- Senate Committee on Government Operations
- 2:30 PM
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PR2 - Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Constitutional Amendment
BetsyAnn Wrask, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
Chloe White, Policy Director, ACLU of Vermont
Curtiss Reed, Executive Director, Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity
Alexandra Thayer, Plainfield
Netdahe Stoddard, self
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
- Committee(s):
- Senate Committee on Government Operations
- 1:30 PM
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PR2 - Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Sen. Dick McCormack, Sponsor
Peter Teachout, Professor, Vermont Law School
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
- Committee(s):
- Senate Committee on Government Operations
- 3:45 PM
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PR2 - Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Committee Discussion
Karen Horn, Director, Public Policy & Advocacy, Vermont League of Cities and Towns
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
- Committee(s):
- Senate Committee on Government Operations
- 3:15 PM
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PR2 - Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Peter Teachout, Professor, Vermont Law School
Sen. Dick McCormack, Sponsor
Thursday, February 21, 2019
- Committee(s):
- Senate Committee on Government Operations
- 3:30 PM
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PR2 - Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Committee Discussion
BetsyAnn Wrask, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
Friday, February 22, 2019
- Committee(s):
- Senate Committee on Government Operations
- 3:00 PM
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PR2 - Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Committee Discussion
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
- Committee(s):
- Senate Committee on Government Operations
- 1:15 PM
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PR2 - Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Sen. Debbie Ingram, Sponsor
Thursday, February 28, 2019
- Committee(s):
- Senate Committee on Government Operations
- 3:15 PM
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PR2 - Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Bor Yang, Executive Director, VT Human Rights Commission
Amanda Garces, Founder, Vermont Coalition for Ethnic and Social Equity in Schools
Mark Hughes, Executive Director, Justice for All
Edith Klimoski, Director, Give Way to Freedom
Laurelyn Veatch
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
- Committee(s):
- Senate Committee on Government Operations
- 4:15 PM
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PR2 - Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Review draft language
BetsyAnn Wrask, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
Peter Teachout, Professor, Vermont Law School
Sen. Dick McCormack, Sponsor
Thursday, April 4, 2019
- Committee(s):
- Senate Committee on Government Operations
- 5:00 PM
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PR2 - Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Public hearing
[no first name] Netdahe, Resident, Cabot
Christine Waller , Resident, Burlington
Wafic Faour, Resident, Richmond
Mark Hughes, Executive Director, Justice for All
Zoe Hart, Resident, Richmond
Rashida Butler, South Royalton
Kathleen Voight-Walsh, Resident, Burlington
Sylvia Knight, Resident, Burlington
Hunnon Heidariou, Resident, South Burlington
Susan Schoenfeld
Rachel Wilson, Resident, Woodbury
Friday, April 5, 2019
- Committee(s):
- Senate Committee on Government Operations
- 1:00 PM
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PR2 - Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Discussion; possible vote
Friday, April 12, 2019
- Committee(s):
- Senate Committee on Government Operations
- 1:15 PM
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PR2 - Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Committee discussion and possible vote
BetsyAnn Wrask, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
Howard Coffin, Historian
Tanya Marshall, State Archivist and Chief Records Officer, VT State Archives & Records Administration
Sally May, Resident, Jeffersonville
Peter Teachout, Professor, Vermont Law School
Thursday, April 18, 2019
- Committee(s):
- Senate Committee on Government Operations
- 3:00 PM
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PR2 - Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Discuss proposed amendment.
BetsyAnn Wrask, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
Sen. Debbie Ingram, Chittenden District
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
- Committee(s):
- House Committee on Government Operations
- 3:00 PM
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PR2 - Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Overview
BetsyAnn Wrask, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
Friday, May 3, 2019
- Committee(s):
- House Committee on Government Operations
- After House Floor
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PR2 - Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
History of Article 1 of Chapter I (banning slavery and limiting indentured servitude)
Peter Teachout, Professor, Vermont Law School
BetsyAnn Wrask, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
- Committee(s):
- House Committee on Government Operations
- 5:00 PM
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PR2 - Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Public Hearing in Room 11
Edward Gilbert Jr. , Barre Town
Tabitha Phol-Moore, Wallingford
Mark Hughes, Executive Director, Justice for All
Brenda Siegel, Newfane
Jennifer Decker, S. Burlington
Wafic Faour, Richmond
Seth Collins, Berlin
Thursday, May 9, 2019
- Committee(s):
- House Committee on Government Operations
- 9:00 AM
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PR2 - Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Mark up
BetsyAnn Wrask, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
- Committee(s):
- House Committee on Government Operations
- 11:30 AM
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PR2 - Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Committee Discussion and Vote
BetsyAnn Wrask, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
- Committee(s):
- House Committee on Government Operations
- 9:00 AM
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PR2 - Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
BetsyAnn Wrask, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
Friday, January 10, 2020
- Committee(s):
- House Committee on Government Operations
- 15 min after Floor adjourns
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PR2 - Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Committee Discussion and Vote
BetsyAnn Wrask, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
Sen. Dick McCormack, Sponsor
- 11:30 AM
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PR2 - Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Committee Discussion and Vote
BetsyAnn Wrask, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
No committee documents found for PR.2 in the Regular Session 2019-2020.
Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Witnesses Who Testified
Regular Session 2019-2020
House Committee on Government Operations
- Seth Collins, Berlin
- Jennifer Decker, S. Burlington
- Wafic Faour, Richmond
- Edward Gilbert Jr. , Barre Town
- Mark Hughes, Executive Director, Justice for All
- Sen. Dick McCormack, Sponsor
- Tabitha Phol-Moore, Wallingford
- Brenda Siegel, Newfane
- Peter Teachout, Professor, Vermont Law School
- BetsyAnn Wrask, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
Senate Committee on Government Operations
- Rashida Butler, South Royalton
- Howard Coffin, Historian
- Wafic Faour, Resident, Richmond
- Amanda Garces, Founder, Vermont Coalition for Ethnic and Social Equity in Schools
- Zoe Hart, Resident, Richmond
- Hunnon Heidariou, Resident, South Burlington
- Karen Horn, Director, Public Policy & Advocacy, Vermont League of Cities and Towns
- Mark Hughes, Executive Director, Justice for All
- Mark Hughes, Executive Director, Justice for All
- Sen. Debbie Ingram, Chittenden District
- Sen. Debbie Ingram, Sponsor
- Edith Klimoski, Director, Give Way to Freedom
- Sylvia Knight, Resident, Burlington
- Tanya Marshall, State Archivist and Chief Records Officer, VT State Archives & Records Administration
- Sally May, Resident, Jeffersonville
- Sen. Dick McCormack, Sponsor
- [no first name] Netdahe, Resident, Cabot
- Curtiss Reed, Executive Director, Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity
- Susan Schoenfeld
- Netdahe Stoddard, self
- Peter Teachout, Professor, Vermont Law School
- Alexandra Thayer, Plainfield
- Laurelyn Veatch
- Kathleen Voight-Walsh, Resident, Burlington
- Christine Waller , Resident, Burlington
- Chloe White, Policy Director, ACLU of Vermont
- Rachel Wilson, Resident, Woodbury
- BetsyAnn Wrask, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
- Bor Yang, Executive Director, VT Human Rights Commission
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Declaration of rights; clarifying the prohibition on slavery and indentured servitude
Committee of Conference Meetings
Regular Session 2019-2020
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