House Committee on General, Housing, and Military Affairs

AGENDA

Via Zoom

March 16, 2021 - March 19, 2021

Last Updated 3/19/2021 11:20 AM

Meetings will be livestreamed here unless otherwise noted

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

10:00 AM                   House Floor

12:00 PM                   Lunch and Caucuses

2:00 PM                   Bill Introductions and Walk-throughs

As time allows

-                                   H. 244 - An act relating to authorizing the natural organic reduction of human remains

Rep. Carolyn W. Partridge, Sponsor

-                                   H. 290 - An act relating to ski area operators and skiing accident reports

Rep. Barbara Rachelson, Sponsor

Damien Leonard, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel

-                                   H. 270 - An act relating to modernizing Vermont’s wage and hour laws

Rep. John Killacky, Sponsor

Damien Leonard, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel

-                                   Adjourn

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

9:30 AM                   J.R.H. 2 - Joint resolution sincerely apologizing and expressing sorrow and regret to all individual Vermonters and their families and descendants who were harmed as a result of State-sanctioned eugenics policies and practices

Discussion and mark-up

Michael Chernick, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel

Don Stevens, Chief, Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk-Abenaki Nation

Carol McGranaghan, Chair, Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs

Carol Irons, Abenaki Elder, Albany

Doug Bent, Member of Koasek Tribe, Commissioner, Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs

Lucy Neel, Nulhegan Tribe Indian Education Coordinator, Holland, Vermont

Judy Dow, Author, Understanding the Vermont Eugenics Survey and its Impacts Today

Charlene A. Galarneau, PHD, Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical School, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Faculty, Harvard Medical School, Center for Bioethics

Susan Aranoff, J.D., Senior Planner and Policy Analyst, Vermont Developmental Disabilities Council

11:45 AM                   Break

1:15 PM                   House Floor

15 min after Floor                   Bill Introductions and Walk-throughs

As Floor time allows

-                                   Adjourn

Thursday, March 18, 2021

9:30 AM                   J.R.H. 2 - Joint resolution sincerely apologizing and expressing sorrow and regret to all individual Vermonters and their families and descendants who were harmed as a result of State-sanctioned eugenics policies and practices

Discussion and mark-up

Michael Chernick, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel

Don Stevens, Chief, Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk-Abenaki Nation

Judy Dow, Author, Understanding the Vermont Eugenics Survey and its Impacts Today, Gedakina

Doug Bent, Member of Koasek Tribe, Commissioner, Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs

Nancy Gallagher, Author, "Breeding Better Vermonters: The Eugenics Project in the Green Mountain State"

Mercedes de Guardiola , Author, Vermont History Journal - 'Segregation or Sterilization” - Eugenics in the 1912 Vermont State Legislative Session

PHD Charlene A. Galarneau, PHD, Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical School, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Faculty, Harvard Medical School, Center for Bioethics

Susan Aranoff, J.D., Senior Planner and Policy Analyst, Vermont Developmental Disabilities Council

-                                   H. 234 - An act relating to prohibiting employment discrimination based on caste

Introduction and walk-through

Rep. Barbara Rachelson, Sponsor - Invited

Damien Leonard, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel

11:45 AM                   Break

1:15 PM                   House Floor

15 min after Floor                   Bill Introductions

As time allows

-                                   Adjourn

Friday, March 19, 2021

9:00 AM                   H. 313 - An act relating to miscellaneous amendments to alcoholic beverage laws

Ways and Means amendment

Rep. Christopher Mattos, Amendment Reporter

Tucker Anderson, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel

9:30 AM                   House Floor

15 min after Floor                   Committee Meeting

TBD

11:45 AM                   Break

1:00 PM                   H. 228 - An act relating to prohibiting discrimination based on an individual’s criminal history

Introduction

Rep. Barbara Rachelson, Sponsor

-                                   H. 234 - An act relating to prohibiting employment discrimination based on caste

Introduction

Rep. Barbara Rachelson, Sponsor

-                                   J.R.H. 2 - Joint resolution sincerely apologizing and expressing sorrow and regret to all individual Vermonters and their families and descendants who were harmed as a result of State-sanctioned eugenics policies and practices

Discussion and mark-up

Michael Chernick, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel

-                                   Adjourn

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If you have any questions or comments, please contact

 Ron Wild at rwild@leg.state.vt.us