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Committee gives favorable straw poll to bill creating Molly Beatty distinguished service award
Summary
A House committee expressed support in a straw poll for H.396, which would create the Molly Beatty Distinguished Service Award to honor contributions to Vermont's public lands; the Senate's amendment narrowed language to 'current or former state employee or partner' and left the July 1 effective date unchanged.
Members of a House committee took a favorable straw poll on H.396, a bill that would create the Molly Beatty Distinguished Service Award and require the commissioner of Forests, Parks and Recreation to present it annually to "a current or former state employee or partner," committee members heard.
Michael Chernick, an attorney with Legislative Council who drafted the original bill text, told the committee the Senate's amendment was largely editorial and said, "the amendment from the Senate . . . is not particularly substantive." He confirmed the bill's effective date remains July 1 and that the amended…
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