Senate Committee on Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs

 

AGENDA

 

Room 27

January 22, 2019 - January 25, 2019

Last Updated 1/25/2019 10:54 AM

 

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

9:00 AM                   Senate Protocols and Floor Decorum

 

9:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

10:00 AM                   Commission Discussion

Overview of the week

 

10:30 AM                   Governor's Proposed Paid Family Leave Plan

Kendal Smith, Director of Policy Development and Legislative Affairs, Governor's Office

Michael Pieciak, Commissioner, Department of Financial Regulation

Beth Fastiggi, Commissioner, Department of Human Resources

DJ Bettencourt, Policy Director, New Hampshire Governor's Office

John Formella, Legal Counsel, New Hampshire Governor's Office

 

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

8:30 AM                   S. 23 - An act relating to increasing the minimum wage

Damien Leonard, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

David Cooper, Economic Policy Institute

 

10:30 AM                   Break

 

10:45 AM                   S. 23 - An act relating to increasing the minimum wage

Deb Brighton, Consultant, Joint Fiscal Office

Lindsay Kurrle, Commissioner, Department of Labor

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

 

11:15 AM                   S. 23 - An act relating to increasing the minimum wage

Jubilee McGill, Member, Rights and Democracy, VT

Judy Peterson, President and CEO, The University of Vermont Health Network

 

Thursday, January 24, 2019

8:30 AM                   Financial Technology

Michael Pieciak, Commissioner, Department of Financial Regulation

Jill Rickard, Director of Policy, Department of Financial Regulation

 

9:15 AM                   S. 23 - An act relating to increasing the minimum wage

Stephanie  Yu, Policy Analyst, Public Assets Institute

Joyce Manchester, Senior Economist, Joint Fiscal Office

 

10:30 AM                   Break

 

10:45 AM                   S. 23 - An act relating to increasing the minimum wage

Dan Barlow, Public Policy Manager, Vermont Business for Social Responsibility

Cary Brown, Executive Director, Vermont Commission on Women

Coleen Kohaut, Nursing Home Administrator, Franklin County Rehabilitation

Sandy Paritz, Project Director, Vermont Poverty Law Project, Vermont Legal Aid

Erin Sigrist, President, Vermont Retail & Grocers Association

 

Friday, January 25, 2019

8:30 AM                   Governor's Economic Development Proposals

Michael Schirling, Secretary, Agency of Commerce and Community Development

Ted Brady, Deputy Secretary, Agency of Commerce and Community Development

Joan Goldstein, Commissioner, Department of Economic Development, Agency of Commerce and Community Development

Josh Hanford, Deputy Commissioner, Department of Housing and Community Development, Agency of Commerce and Community Development

Wendy Knight, Commissioner, Department of Tourism and Marketing, Agency of Commerce and Community Development

 

10:30 AM                   Break

 

10:45 AM                   Governor's Workforce Development Proposals

Sarah Buxton, Director, Workforce Policy and Performance, Department of Labor

 

11:30 AM                   Implicit Bias Training

Ethan Allen Room

 

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