2023-2024 Session
Change SessionSenate Committee on Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs (Room 27)
The Senate Committee on Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs has jurisdiction over matters relating to economic development, commerce, and community development, including tourism and marketing, promotion of the arts, and film activities; matters relating to labor; matters relating to housing; matters relating to liquor and tobacco control; matters relating to lotteries; and all matters relating to subjects for which there is no other appropriate committee.
Meeting Record
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
- 9:00 AM
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S.103 - An act relating to amending the prohibitions against discrimination
- Bor Yang, Executive Director & Counsel, Vermont Human Rights Commission
- 9:30 AM
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S.19 - An act relating to eliminating prohibitions and penalties on the purchase, use, and possession of tobacco products
- L.E. Faricy, Pediatric Pulmonologist, Vermont Medical Society, American Academy of Pediatrics Vermont
- Tina Zuk, Government Relations Director, American Heart Association
- 10:10 AM
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Committee Discussion
Minimum Wage
- Joyce Manchester, Senior Economist, Joint Fiscal Office
- 10:35 AM
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Break
- 10:45 AM
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S.135 - An act relating to the establishment of VT Saves
Committee Discussion
- Michael Pieciak, Vermont State Treasurer, Office of the State Treasurer
- Gavin Boyles, Deputy Treasurer, Office of the State Treasurer
- Ashlynn Doyon, Director of Policy, Office of the State Treasurer
- 11:30 AM
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S.102 - An act relating to expanding employment protections and collective bargaining rights
- Dan Fingas, Vermont Movement Politics Director, Rights and Democracy Vermont
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S.108 - An act relating to increasing the minimum wage and studying increasing the wages of inmates and workers who are not subject to the minimum wage
- Dan Fingas, Vermont Movement Politics Director, Rights and Democracy Vermont
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Adjourn
