House Committee on General, Housing, and Military Affairs

 

AGENDA

 

Via Zoom

April 20, 2021 - April 23, 2021

Last Updated 4/23/2021 2:03 PM

 

 

Meetings will be livestreamed here unless otherwise noted

 

 

 

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

10:00 AM                   House Floor

 

12:00 PM                   Lunch and Caucuses

 

1:00 PM                   S. 79 - An act relating to improving rental housing health and safety

Discussion and mark-up

David Hall, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel

Sarah Carpenter, Chair, Rental Housing Advisory Board

Wendy Morgan, MPH, Staff Attorney, Vermont Legal Aid

 

-                                   H. 232 - An act relating to promoting land and home ownership and economic opportunity

Elise Guyette, Author, Discovering Black Vermont

Stephanie Morningstar, Coordinator, Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust

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

Nick Richardson, President & CEO, Vermont Land Trust

 

-                                   Adjourn

 

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

9:15 AM                   Agricultural Housing

Joint hearing with House Committee on Agriculture and Forestry

Ernest A. Caswell , Farm Worker Housing Activist, Milton

Marita Canedo, Representative, Migrant Justice

Tom Fritzsche, Executive Director, Milk with Dignity Standards Council

Gus Seelig, Executive Director, Vermont Housing and Conservation Board

Liz Gleason, Director, VHCB Farm and Forest Viability Program

Dan Baker, Professor of Community Development and Applied Economics, UVM

John Ryan, Owner, Development Cycles

 

-                                   H. 178 - An act relating to low-alcohol spirits beverages

Jeff Weaber, Founder/CEO, Aqua ViTEa

Alan Newman, Owner, Higher Ground

 

11:45 AM                   Break

 

1:15 PM                   House Floor

 

15 mins after Floor                   H. 273 - An act relating to promoting racial and social equity in land access and property ownership

Kiah Morris, Movement Politics Director, Rights and Democracy Vermont - Invited

 

3:00 PM                   H. 232 - An act relating to promoting land and home ownership and economic opportunity

Stephanie Seguino, Professor, University of Vermont

 

-                                   Adjourn

 

Thursday, April 22, 2021

9:15 AM                   S. 79 - An act relating to improving rental housing health and safety

Discussion and mark-up

David Hall, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel

Wendy Morgan, MPH, Staff Attorney, Vermont Legal Aid

Sarah Carpenter, Chair, Rental Housing Advisory Board

 

-                                   Eviction Moratorium

Testimony and committee discussion

Jude Hawkens, Tenant, South Londonderry

Wendy Morgan, Staff Attorney, Vermont Legal Aid

Geoffrey Pippenger, Senior Advisor to the Commissioner, Department for Children and Families

Jessica Radbord, Staff Attorney, Vermont Legal Aid

 

12:00 PM                   Break

 

1:15 PM                   House Floor

 

15 mins after Floor                   Committee Meeting

TBD as time permits

 

-                                   Adjourn

 

Friday, April 23, 2021

9:00 AM                   Governor's Housing Proposal

Josh Hanford, Commissioner, Department of Housing and Community Development

 

9:30 AM                   House Floor

 

15 min after Floor                   S. 79 - An act relating to improving rental housing health and safety

Discussion and mark-up

David Hall, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel - Invited

 

11:45 AM                   Break

 

1:00 PM                   H. 232 - An act relating to promoting land and home ownership and economic opportunity

Phil Huffman, Director of Government Relations and Policy, The Nature Conservancy

 

-                                   H. 401 - An act relating to promoting racial and social equity in Vermont

Introduction and Walk-through

Rep. Selene Colburn, Co-sponsor

Rep. Patricia McCoy, Co-sponsor

 

-                                   H. 232 - An act relating to promoting land and home ownership and economic opportunity

Brian Pine, Interim Coordinator, Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition

 

-                                   Adjourn

 

ATTENTION WITNESSES

 

Please email handouts to the committee assistant at least 24 hours before your scheduled meeting time. With few exceptions, any documents you send to a committee assistant, are open to the public and may be posted to the committee’s web page.

 

If you have any questions or comments, please contact

 Ron Wild at rwild@leg.state.vt.us