Senate votes: roundup of bills advanced or passed during the session
May 09, 2024 | SENATE, Committees, Legislative , Vermont
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The Senate took multiple procedural and final votes during the floor session. Key outcomes announced on the floor:
- H868: The Senate accepted the committee of conference report on the FY2025 transportation program (committee of conference changes included EV fee timing set for Jan. 1, 2025 and reallocations for EV charging equipment). The report was adopted by voice vote.
- H888: An act to approve amendments to the Town of Hartford charter was ordered for 3rd reading and passed on the floor after unanimous committee support.
- H233: The Senate adopted committee reports, accepted an amendment narrowing HCA access to confidential investigatory materials, ordered 3rd reading, and later passed H233 establishing PBM licensure and prohibiting spread pricing.
- H877: The miscellaneous agricultural subjects bill, including water‑quality, fees, hemp product definitions and municipal authority on livestock at large, had intercommittee deliberations; the Senate ordered 3rd reading and passed the bill.
- H645: The restorative justice expansion was ordered for 3rd reading and passed; the bill shifts grant authority to the Attorney General and requires reporting and data collection.
- H10: The VEGI (Employment Growth Incentive) extension through 2027 was ordered for 3rd reading and passed; committees stripped prior complicated changes, leaving an extension to avoid sunset.
- H626: The animal welfare reorganization and funding bill was ordered for 3rd reading and passed; the bill increases the rabies license fee to fund a Division of Animal Welfare.
- H612: The cannabis amendments were ordered for 3rd reading by voice vote, but floor leadership deferred final passage for redrafting and scheduled it for the next morning for further work.
Several procedural motions to suspend rules and message actions to the House were adopted so the clerk could notify the other chamber of Senate action. One attempted suspension to take up an ethics bill (H875) failed on a division vote (19 ayes, 7 nays; required 20).
- H868: The Senate accepted the committee of conference report on the FY2025 transportation program (committee of conference changes included EV fee timing set for Jan. 1, 2025 and reallocations for EV charging equipment). The report was adopted by voice vote.
- H888: An act to approve amendments to the Town of Hartford charter was ordered for 3rd reading and passed on the floor after unanimous committee support.
- H233: The Senate adopted committee reports, accepted an amendment narrowing HCA access to confidential investigatory materials, ordered 3rd reading, and later passed H233 establishing PBM licensure and prohibiting spread pricing.
- H877: The miscellaneous agricultural subjects bill, including water‑quality, fees, hemp product definitions and municipal authority on livestock at large, had intercommittee deliberations; the Senate ordered 3rd reading and passed the bill.
- H645: The restorative justice expansion was ordered for 3rd reading and passed; the bill shifts grant authority to the Attorney General and requires reporting and data collection.
- H10: The VEGI (Employment Growth Incentive) extension through 2027 was ordered for 3rd reading and passed; committees stripped prior complicated changes, leaving an extension to avoid sunset.
- H626: The animal welfare reorganization and funding bill was ordered for 3rd reading and passed; the bill increases the rabies license fee to fund a Division of Animal Welfare.
- H612: The cannabis amendments were ordered for 3rd reading by voice vote, but floor leadership deferred final passage for redrafting and scheduled it for the next morning for further work.
Several procedural motions to suspend rules and message actions to the House were adopted so the clerk could notify the other chamber of Senate action. One attempted suspension to take up an ethics bill (H875) failed on a division vote (19 ayes, 7 nays; required 20).
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