Senate Committee on Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs

 

AGENDA

 

Room 27

January 16, 2018 - January 19, 2018

Last Updated 1/19/2018 11:11 AM

 

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

9:30 AM          Senate Floor

 

10 Minutes After Floor Action          S. 207 - An act relating to eliminating fees for placing or removing a credit freeze

mark up and vote

Jeanne Kennedy, Lobbyist, Cigna Health Care

David Hall, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Chris D'Elia, President, Vermont Bankers' Association

Zachary Tomanelli, Communications and Technology Director, VPIRG

Ryan Krieger, Assistant Attorney General, Attorney General's Office

 

11:30 PM          S. 275 - An act relating to equal pay

Sen. Alison Clarkson (Sponsor)

Cary Brown, Executive Director, Vermont Commission on Women

 

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

8:45 AM          Pathways Update

Hilary Melton, Executive Director, Pathways Vermont

 

8:50 AM          S. 40 - An act relating to increasing the minimum wage

David Cooper, Senior Economic Analyst | Deputy Director of EARN, Economic Policy Institute

 

10:30 AM          Break

 

10:45 AM          S. 40 - An act relating to increasing the minimum wage

Stephanie  Yu, Policy Analyst, Public Assets Institute

 

Thursday, January 18, 2018

8:45 AM          S. 40 - An act relating to increasing the minimum wage

Al Gobeille, Secretary, Agency of Human Services

Lindsay Kurrle, Commissioner, Department of Labor

Mat Barewicz, Economic & Labor Market Information Chief, Department of Labor

 

10:15 AM          Break

 

10:30 AM          Benefit Cliff

Sarah Kenney, Deputy Director, Let's Grow Kids

Deb Brighton, Consultant, Joint Fiscal Office

Kenneth Schatz, Commissioner, Department for Children and Families

Katie McLinn, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Damien Leonard, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

11:30 AM          S. 207 - An act relating to eliminating fees for placing or removing a credit freeze

mark up and vote

David Hall, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

Friday, January 19, 2018

8:45 AM          S. 40 - An act relating to increasing the minimum wage

Tom Torti, Executive Director, Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce

Michael Rainville, President

Ashley Romeo-Boles, Vermont Chamber of Commerce

Bill Moore, President and CEO, Central Vermont Chamber of Commerce

Bill Driscoll, Vice President, Associated Industries of Vermont

Erin Sigrist, President, Vermont Retail & Grocers Association

Lindsay DesLauriers, State Director, Main Street Alliance of VT

Dan Barlow, State Director, Vermont Business for Social Responsibility

 

11:05 AM          S. 207 - An act relating to eliminating fees for placing or removing a credit freeze

mark up and vote

David Hall, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

11:30 AM          Senate Floor

 

ATTENTION WITNESSES- Please email handouts to the committee assistant before your scheduled meeting date and bring 6 hard copies. Please write your name, organization, date and title on each document. With few exceptions, any documents you hand out to a committee, or send to a committee assistant, are open to the public and may be posted to the committee’s webpage.

 

If you have any questions and comments, please contact

 Kayla Dewey at 828-3803 or kdewey@leg.state.vt.us