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H.454 amendment would divide State Board appointment power, preserve governor removal authority and fund rule review
Summary
The amendment would change who appoints State Board of Education members — giving the speaker of the House and the Senate Committee on Committees two seats while the governor would appoint eight — require a rules review with a $200,000 appropriation and keep removal authority with the governor.
A proposed change in H.454 would alter the appointing authority for the Vermont State Board of Education, require a board-led review of rules and include a $200,000 general fund appropriation to support the board’s rule work, committee staff said during a July 1 walkthrough.
Under the amendment, the composition of the State Board would not change numerically — it would remain 10 voting members (11 including the secretary as a nonvoting ex officio member) — but appointment authority would shift. Committee staff said the governor would appoint eight voting members, including two student members and six nonstudent voting members, while the speaker of the…
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