House General & Housing committee takes Bill 429 off the wall, directs staff to draft long form

The House Committee on General & Housing voted on May 6 to take short-form Bill 429 off the wall and directed committee counsel Sophie to prepare a full, long-form draft for further consideration.

The move came during an extended committee discussion that also reviewed the committee’s next draft of S.120, debated whether to take up H.173 now or hold it “on the wall,” and reviewed recent budget actions adding positions for the Human Rights Commission and the Vermont Labor Relations Board.

Committee members said the next draft of S.120 will strip provisions already addressed by Commerce and workers’ compensation, retain provisions on supervisors and courts and on decertification, remove certified payroll requirements, and expand certification language to reach all statutes where appropriate. The chair described the change as a technical…