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The Senate Committee on Finance has jurisdiction over matters affecting the revenues of the State or its instrumentalities and relating to banks; trust companies; insurance; utility companies; and private and quasi-public corporations, including other companies subject to regulation by the Public Service Board.

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  • J.R.H.1 - Joint resolution expressing support for the Public Service Board's establishment of FairPoint Communications service investigation docket and urging the management of FairPoint Communications to settle the current employee strike in order to restore reliable telecommunications services in Vermont
  • H.5 - An act relating to hunting, fishing, and trapping
  • H.35 - An act relating to improving the quality of State waters
  • H.40 - An act relating to establishing a renewable energy standard and energy transformation program
  • H.51 - An act relating to group-wide supervision of internationally active insurance groups and the establishment of domestic insurers in Vermont
  • H.73 - An act relating to the corporate governance structure of insurers
  • H.84 - An act relating to consumer protection
  • H.117 - An act relating to telecommunications.
  • H.135 - An act relating to enabling the Vermont Department of Health to reach an agreement with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission regarding authority over regulation and licensing of radioactive material
  • H.184 - An act relating to Executive Branch fees
  • H.272 - An act relating to current use and technical tax changes
  • H.282 - An act relating to professions and occupations regulated by the Office of Professional Regulation
  • H.306 - An act relating to unemployment compensation
  • H.355 - An act relating to licensing and regulating foresters
  • H.361 - An act relating to making amendments to education funding, education spending, and education governance
  • H.480 - An act relating to making miscellaneous technical and other amendments to education laws
  • H.482 - An act relating to principle-based valuation for life insurance reserves and a standard nonforfeiture law for life insurance policies
  • H.484 - An act relating to miscellaneous agricultural subjects
  • H.488 - An act relating to the State’s Transportation Program and miscellaneous changes to laws related to transportation
  • H.489 - An act relating to revenue
  • H.497 - An act relating to approval of amendments to the charter of the Town of Colchester
  • H.524 - An act relating to seeking a waiver to permit businesses to continue to purchase Exchange plans directly from insurers
  • H.538 - An act relating to captive insurance companies
  • H.548 - An act relating to extraordinary dividends for life insurers
  • H.562 - An act relating to professions and occupations regulated by the Office of Professional Regulation and to the review of professional regulation
  • H.570 - An act relating to hunting, fishing, and trapping
  • H.571 - An act relating to driver’s license suspensions and judicial, criminal justice, and insurance topics
  • H.577 - An act relating to voter approval of electricity purchases by municipalities and electric cooperatives
  • H.620 - An act relating to health insurance and Medicaid coverage for contraceptives
  • H.747 - An act relating to the State Treasurer’s authority to intercept State funding to a municipality or school district in default from a Municipal Bond Bank borrowing
  • H.852 - An act relating to State lands
  • H.853 - An act relating to setting the nonresidential property tax rate, the property dollar equivalent yield, and the income dollar equivalent yield for fiscal year 2017, and other education changes
  • H.857 - An act relating to timber harvesting
  • H.862 - An act relating to insurance laws
  • H.864 - An act relating to agricultural exemption from Vermont’s sales and use tax
  • H.865 - An act relating to promoting workforce housing
  • H.868 - An act relating to miscellaneous economic development provisions
  • H.870 - An act relating to telecommunications
  • H.872 - An act relating to Executive Branch fees
  • H.873 - An act relating to making miscellaneous tax changes
  • H.877 - An act relating to transportation funding
  • S.20 - An act relating to establishing and regulating dental therapists
  • S.23 - An act relating to required disclosures for workers’ compensation settlements
  • S.33 - An act relating to transferring the administration of the Vermont Enhanced 911 system to the Department of Public Safety
  • S.41 - An act relating to developing a strategy for evaluating the effectiveness of individual tax expenditures
  • S.55 - An act relating to Vermont’s estate tax
  • S.61 - An act relating to fast-track Medicaid enrollment
  • S.75 - An act relating to food and lodging establishments
  • S.79 - An act relating to requiring a town vote for each property exempt from the statewide education property tax
  • S.90 - An act relating to shortening the late filing period for homestead declarations
  • S.92 - An act relating to mediation in medical malpractice actions
  • S.97 - An act relating to taxation of prewritten software
  • S.98 - An act relating to captive insurance companies and risk retention groups
  • S.122 - An act relating to miscellaneous changes to laws related to motor vehicles, motorboats, and other vehicles
  • S.135 - An act relating to expanding the responsibilities of the Green Mountain Care Board
  • S.138 - An act relating to promoting economic development
  • S.156 - An act relating to requiring an evaluation of the effectiveness of Vermont’s tax expenditures
  • S.168 - An act relating to incentives for lower education spending
  • S.175 - An act relating to creating an education property tax that is adjusted by income for all taxpayers
  • S.176 - An act relating to disclosure of compliance with accessibility standards in the sale of residential construction
  • S.209 - An act relating to the Attorney General and ratepayer advocacy
  • S.214 - An act relating to large group insurance
  • S.215 - An act relating to the regulation of vision insurance plans
  • S.216 - An act relating to prescription drugs
  • S.225 - An act relating to miscellaneous changes to laws related to motor vehicles
  • S.228 - An act relating to creating an exemption from the statewide education property tax for nonprofit Level III residential homes
  • S.230 - An act relating to improving the siting of energy projects
  • S.233 - An act relating to amending Act 46
  • S.238 - An act relating to intermunicipal insurance agreements for health care
  • S.241 - An act relating to regulation of marijuana
  • S.242 - An act relating to the service of civil process by a constable
  • S.243 - An act relating to combating opioid abuse in Vermont
  • S.250 - An act relating to alcoholic beverages
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  • Sen. Tim Ashe, Chair
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  • Sen. Virginia "Ginny" Lyons
  • Sen. Kevin Mullin
  • Sen. Claire Ayer
  • Sen. Michael Sirotkin
  • Sen. Dustin Degree
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