House Committee on Education

 

AGENDA

 

Room 31

March 26, 2019 - March 29, 2019

Last Updated 3/29/2019 2:10 PM

 

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

10:00 AM                   House  Floor

Caucuses immediately following Floor

 

12:00 PM                   Lunch

 

1:00 PM                   House  Floor

 

-                                   Adjourn

 

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

8:30 AM                   S. 40 - An act relating to testing and remediation of lead in the drinking water of schools and child care facilities

Mark-up and possible vote

Michael O'Grady, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Stephanie Barrett, Associate Fiscal Officer, Joint Fiscal Office

Jeffrey Francis, Executive Director, Vermont Superintendents Association

Jen Duggan, Vice President/Director, Conservation Law Foundation

Bryan Redmond, Director, Drinking Water and Groundwater Protection Division, Department of Environmental Conservation

Elizabeth Novotny, General Counsel, Mosaic Learning Center

Ted Fisher, Director of Communications and Legislative Affairs, Agency of Education

 

10:30 AM                   Retention of Superior Judges and Magistrates

Joint Assembly

 

-                                   Lunch

 

-                                   S. 40 - An act relating to testing and remediation of lead in the drinking water of schools and child care facilities

David Englander, General Counsel, Vermont Department of Health

 

1:45 PM                   House  Floor

 

-                                   Adjourn

 

Thursday, March 28, 2019

9:00 AM                   H. 39 - An act relating to the extension of the deadline of school district mergers required by the State Board of Education

As Passed by the Senate

James DesMarais, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

10:00 AM                   House  Floor

 

12:00 PM                   Lunch

Vermont Superintendents Association, Capitol Plaza Hotel

 

1:00 PM                   House  Floor

 

-                                   Adjourn

 

Friday, March 29, 2019

8:00 AM                   S. 40 - An act relating to testing and remediation of lead in the drinking water of schools and child care facilities

Mark-up and possible vote

David Englander, General Counsel, Vermont Department of Health

Michael O'Grady, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Bryan Redmond, Director, Drinking Water and Groundwater Protection Division, Department of Environmental Conservation

Jeffrey Francis, Executive Director, Vermont Superintendents Association

Elizabeth Novotny, General Counsel, Mosaic Learning Center

Ted Fisher, Director of Communications and Legislative Affairs, Agency of Education

Sarah Kenney, Senior Director of Policy, Let's Grow Kids

 

9:30 AM                   House  Floor

 

12:15 PM                   Lunch

 

1:00 PM                   H. 185 - An act relating to transgender and gender nonconforming student access to gender-segregated school programs, activities, and facilities

Dana Kaplan, Executive  Director, Outright Vermont

Jamie Atchinson, Student, Harwood Union High School

Hunter Drown-Mansfield, Student, Northfield Middle-High School

Ash Engelsman, Student, Randolph Union High School

Maggie Nadean, Student, Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax

Andi Tisdell, Student, Peoples Academy

Jeane Robles, Citizen

Rep. Barbara Rachelson, Sponsor, House Committee on Judiciary

 

1:45 PM                   S. 40 - An act relating to testing and remediation of lead in the drinking water of schools and child care facilities

Patricia Komline, Lobbyist, Vermont Independent Schools Association

 

2:00 PM                   Adjourn

 

ATTENTION WITNESSES- Please email handouts to the committee assistant before your scheduled meeting date and bring 1 hard copy. 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

 Shannon Esrich at 802-828-2256 or sesrich@leg.state.vt.us