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Committee hears plan to standardize service-of-process and agent requirements across business types
Summary
Secretarial staff told the Vermont House Commerce & Economic Development Committee on March 12 that H.243 would harmonize service-of-process language so the Secretary of State functions as a clearly defined default agent when registrants fail to maintain a Vermont agent.
At a March 12, 2025 hearing, the Vermont House Committee on Commerce & Economic Development heard testimony from the Secretary of State’s office that proposed H.243 would harmonize service-of-process provisions across the state’s various business-organization statutes.
David Hall, director of the Business Services Division, told the committee the bill would adopt a single, consistent set of steps for when the Secretary of State becomes the default agent for service of process. Hall said the proposal largely adopts language from a 2015 enactment of Title 11 C governing mutual benefit enterprises and would put the same “reasonable diligence” and forwarding rules into one…
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