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Votes at a glance: House adopts several measures, hears second reading on confirmatory adoptions and introduces 29 bills by number
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Summary
On Feb. 19, 2025, the Vermont House adopted a joint Senate resolution on adjournment dates, a house concurrent resolution recognizing school board members, passed bills on Medicaid rates and impaired driving, ordered third reading on H.98, reassigned H.175, and introduced 29 bills by number only.
The House took multiple procedural and substantive actions during its Feb. 19, 2025 session. Key floor outcomes included adoption of a joint Senate resolution on adjournment dates, passage of bills on Medicaid payment rates for home- and community-based providers and on amendments to impaired driving laws, second- and third-reading action on a bill to streamline confirmatory adoptions, a committee reassignment for a bill on adjunct faculty unemployment insurance, and introduction by number of 29 House bills with committee referrals announced.
Votes and formal outcomes recorded on the floor (voice votes unless noted):
- JRS 14 (joint Senate resolution concerning adjournment dates): adopted in concurrence (voice vote). The resolution states that when the two houses adjourn on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025, they are to meet again no later than Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025.
- HCR 21 (house concurrent resolution): adopted pursuant to the consent calendar. The resolution expresses appreciation for Vermont school board members and designates February as School Board Recognition Month; the secretary of state was directed to send a copy to the Vermont School Boards Association.
- H.13 (Medicaid payment rates for home and community-based service providers and designated and specialized service agencies): passed (voice vote). No roll-call tally provided on the floor in the transcript.
- H.44 (miscellaneous amendments to laws governing impaired driving): passed (voice vote). No roll-call tally provided on the floor in the transcript.
- H.98 (confirmatory adoptions): Committee on Judiciary reported the bill with an amendment; the committee amendment was adopted (voice vote) and the bill was ordered read a third time.
- H.154 (designating November as Vermont Month of the Veteran): reported by the Committee on Government Operations and Military Affairs; third reading was ordered (voice vote). Committee vote reported as 10-0-1 on committee report (details provided in committee report portion of transcript).
- H.175 (clarifying adjunct faculty right to unemployment insurance benefits): the House relieved the Committee on General and Housing of H.175 and committed it to the Committee on Commerce and Economic Development (voice vote).
- Motion to suspend rules to introduce bills by number only (moved by the member from Poltenay): adopted; 29 House bills were then read by number only with committee referrals announced on the floor.
Introduced bills (read by number only with committee referrals; bill text and sponsors not specified in the transcript): H.257 (Commerce & Economic Development), H.258 (Judiciary), H.259 (Health Care), H.260 (Human Services), H.261 (General & Housing), H.262 (General & Housing), H.263 (General & Housing), H.264 (Judiciary), H.265 (Energy & Digital Infrastructure), H.266 (Health Care), H.267 (Health Care), H.268 (Commerce & Economic Development), H.269 (Human Services), H.270 (Human Services), H.271 (Health Care), H.272 (Environment), H.273 (Agriculture, Food Resiliency & Forestry), H.274 (Health Care), H.275 (Health Care), H.276 (Environment), H.277 (Energy & Digital Infrastructure), H.278 (Energy & Digital Infrastructure), H.279 (Energy & Digital Infrastructure), H.280 (Environment), H.281 (Government Operations & Military Affairs), H.282 (Transportation), H.283 (Environment), H.284 (Transportation), H.285 (Transportation). The transcript lists committee referrals but does not provide bill text, sponsors, or fiscal notes.
Other floor items: the House read H.98 in second reading with a committee explanation and ordered it to third reading; the House also announced several guests and observances including school-board representatives and recovery organizations. The floor adjourned to reconvene Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, at 3 p.m.
All vote tallies recorded in the transcript are voice votes with the clerk announcing "the ayes do have it" in each case where the body approved a motion; no roll-call tallies were included on the floor for the bills summarized above.
