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 29, 2023
- 9:00 AM
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Land Access and Opportunity Board
- Gus Seelig, Executive Director, Vermont Housing and Conservation Board
- Rev. Arnold Thomas, Pastor, Vermont Land Access and Opportunity Board
- Robert Appel, Retired Director of the Human Rights Commission and Defender General, Vermont Land Access and Opportunity Board
- Jess Laporte, Land Access and Opportunity Board, Vermont Every Town Project
- Rev. Mark Hughes, Executive Director, Vermont Racial Justice Alliance
- 10:00 AM
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Committee Discussion
Working Communities Challenge
- Jessica Savage, Director of Community Collaboration, Vermont Council on Rural Development
- Elaine I. Toohey, Project Director, Greater Barre Area Working Communities Challenge
- Sarah Danly, Project Manager, White River Valley Consortium Working Communities Challenge
- Brian Lowe, Executive Director, Vermont Council on Rural Development
- 11:15 AM
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S.102 - An act relating to expanding employment protections and collective bargaining rights
- Damien Leonard, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
- David Mickenberg, Lobbyist, Working Vermont
