House Committee on General and Housing

 

AGENDA

 

Room 31 and Zoom

March 28, 2023 - March 31, 2023

Last Updated 3/31/2023 1:45 PM

 

Unless otherwise noted, all meetings are livestreamed at https://legislature.vermont.gov/committee/streaming/house-general-and-housing.

 

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

10:00 AM                   House Floor

 

-                                   Lunch

 

1:00 PM                   Joint Assembly

Judicial Retention of Supreme Court Justices and Superior Court Judges

 

 

-                                   Caucuses

 

-                                   House Floor

 

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

9:15 AM                   Legislative History of Minimum Wage and Overtime Exemptions in Vermont

Dartmouth College student presentation

Thomas Lane, Dartmouth College, Class of 2024

Noah Durham, Dartmouth College, Class of 2025

Dylan Griffith, Dartmouth College, Class of 2025

 

10:00 AM                   Break

 

10:15 AM                   Committee Discussion

 

10:30 AM                   H. 276 - An act relating to creating a rental housing registry

House Committees of Appropriations and Ways and Means

Rep. Katherine Sims, Reporter, House Committee on Ways and Means

Rep. James Harrison, Reporter, House Committee on Appropriations

 

12:00 PM                   Lunch and Caucus of the Whole

 

1:00 PM                   House Floor

 

10 mins after Floor                   Committee Meeting

As time allows

 

4:15 PM                   Adjourn

 

Thursday, March 30, 2023

9:00 AM                   H. 132 - An act relating to establishing a homeless bill of rights and prohibiting discrimination against persons without homes

Walk-through and testimony

Damien Leonard, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel

Julio Thompson, Director, Civil Rights Unit, Office of the Attorney General

 

10:15 AM                   Break

 

10:30 AM                   Housing and Homelessness

Anne Sosin, Interim Director, Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition

Kathleen Berk, Executive Director, Vermont State Housing Authority

Tyler Maas, Program Manager, Vermont State Housing Authority

Jean Murray, Direcctor, Housing for Everyone Law Project

 

12:00 PM                   Lunch

 

1:00 PM                   House Floor

 

10 mins after Floor                   Committee Meeting

As time allows

 

-                                   Adjourn

 

Friday, March 31, 2023

9:30 AM                   House Floor

 

10 mins after Floor                   Committee Meeting

As Floor time allows

 

12:00 PM                   Lunch

 

1:00 PM                   H. 454 - An act relating to establishing a statewide bargaining unit for Vermont State Colleges adjunct faculty

Introduction

Rep. Peter Anthony, Sponsor

Heather Riemer, Director, American Federation of Teachers VT

 

-                                   H. 292 - An act relating to providing workers’ compensation coverage for post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by certain public employees

Introduction

Rep. Robert Hooper, Sponsor

 

-                                   H. 338 - An act relating to granting certain State employees the right to strike

Introduction

Rep. Conor Casey, Sponsor

 

-                                   H. 297 - An act relating to providing workers’ compensation coverage for post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by certain State employees

Introduction

Rep. Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, Sponsor

 

-                                   J.R.S. 17 - Joint resolution urging U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to comply with the expedited asylum hearing provisions of the Afghan Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2022

Introduction

Sen. Wendy Harrison, Sponsor

 

-                                   S. 103 - An act relating to amending the prohibitions against discrimination

Introduction

Sen. Wendy Harrison, Reporter

 

3:00 PM                   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