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  • Sen. Dick Mazza, Chair
  • Sen. Tim Ashe, Vice Chair
  • Sen. Jane Kitchel, Clerk
  • Sen. Andrew Perchlik
  • Sen. James McNeil

Senate Committee on Transportation

 

AGENDA

 

Room 3

February 25, 2020 - February 28, 2020

Last Updated 2/28/2020 10:08 AM

 

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

9:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

10:00 AM                   Lamoille Valley Rail Trail

Funding Discussion

Joe Flynn, Secretary of Transportation, Agency of Transportation

Wayne Symonds, Highway Division Director and Chief Engineer, Agency of Transportation

Cindy Locke, Executive  Director, VAST

Warren Coleman, Lobbyist, VAST

Joel Perrigo, Project Manager, Municipal Assistance Bureau, Highway Division, Agency of Transportation

 

10:45 AM                   Committee Discussion

 

11:15 AM                   Break

 

11:30 AM                   Implicit Bias Training

Legislative Lounge

Bor Yang, Executive Director, VT Human Rights Commission

 

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

9:30 AM                   Vehicle Length Testimony

Comments on V.S.A Title 23, Section 1432

Roland Bellavance, President, Bellavance Trucking

Captain Kevin Andrews, Chief of Safety, Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Unit, Department of Motor Vehicles

 

10:30 AM                   Break

 

10:45 AM                   S. 241 - An act relating to motor vehicle manufacturers that sell directly to consumers

Testimony, Committee Discussion

Anthea Dexter-Cooper, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Zach Kahn, Senior Policy Advisor, Tesla

Wayne Weikel, Senior Director of State Government Affairs, Alliance of Automotive Innovation

Mitchell Jay, Vermont Vehicle and Automotive Distributors Association

Dan Keene, Lamoille Valley Ford

 

Thursday, February 27, 2020

-                                   No Committee Meeting Scheduled

 

Friday, February 28, 2020

9:00 AM                   Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles for Vermont

Harry Graves, Clean Energy and Climate Action

 

9:45 AM                   Committee Adjourns

 

11:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

ATTENTION WITNESSES- Please email handouts to the committee assistant before your scheduled meeting date and bring 5 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 or comments, please contact

 Nellie Marvel at 802-828-2254 or nmarvel@leg.state.vt.us