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House Ways & Means committee approves amendment to H.504 and reports the bill favorably
Summary
On May 1 the House Ways & Means committee voted to adopt amendment version 2.1 to H.504 and then reported H.504 as favored with amendments; the amendment makes technical changes to charter citations and tax-rate text, and removes a reference to police equipment funding in one subdivision.
Montpelier — The House Ways & Means committee voted on May 1 to adopt version 2.1 of an amendment to H.504 and then approved H.504 as amended, the committee clerk reported.
The amendment adopted during the committee’s morning session removed a reference to police equipment in one subdivision, corrected a superfluous trailing zero in a tax-rate expression, and redesignated a town charter chapter numbering (moving West Rutland’s designation to an alphabetically consistent position in Title 24, Appendix). Committee members discussed the changes as largely technical and procedural.
The committee began the item with Legislative Council staff on hand to describe the edits. Tucker Angus of Legislative Council explained the drafting decisions and noted that expressing tax rates “on the dollar” is consistent with other statute language and acceptable in the charter text. Angus also described the charter redesignation that resolved a misplaced chapter number for West Rutland caused by earlier charter entries in Title 24.
Representative Kimball moved to adopt amendment version 2.1. The committee then voted to report H.504 favorably as amended; the clerk recorded the committee action as favorable with amendments (reported as 10–0–1 in the roll call summary). The committee then asked that the bill be reported out with the adopted amendment for further action on the floor.
The committee did not take additional policy votes on the substantive parts of H.504 during the session; members characterized the specific edits as technical corrections to statutory text and charter citations.
Committee members who participated in the roll call and those recorded as voting ‘‘yes’’ included Representatives recorded in the roll call summary; the committee also recorded one absence during the roll call. The committee concluded the H.504 item and moved on to a scheduled briefing on tax-increment financing.
A copy of the adopted amendment was identified in committee as version 2.1.
