Committee hears technical corrections bill to modernize Vermont Statutes Annotated

Ben Novogratzky, a staff attorney with the Office of Legislative Council, told the House Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee that members were reviewing a committee bill of technical corrections intended to ready multiple forthcoming volumes of the Vermont Statutes Annotated for republication.

"This is a piece, technical corrections bill, house housekeeping adjacent, we'll call it," Novogratzky said, and later acknowledged that the measure covers a large number of largely non-substantive edits: "I'll try to make this as interesting as possible, in spite of the hundred pages of sort of rote technical, non substantive changes."

The bill is presented as a committee bill, Novogratzky said, which means that if the committee approves it, it would go to the floor for second reading and be assigned a bill marker; the drafting request number remained on the draft shown to the committee. The work focuses primarily on revisions to Title 3, Title 21 and Title 23 of the Vermont Statutes Annotated, with additional scattered edits across other titles.

Key categories of change described in committee discussion include:…