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House Rules Committee approves speaker-nominated slates for three prevention and ethics panels
Summary
The House Rules Committee on Jan. 10 approved speaker-nominated membership slates for a House Discrimination Prevention Panel, an Ethics Panel and a Harassment Prevention Panel, each by 7-0 roll-call votes; members will organize themselves to select chairs.
The House Rules Committee approved speaker-nominated slates to three advisory panels during a brief Jan. 10 meeting, voting 7-0 on each appointment.
The approvals cover members named to a House Discrimination Prevention Panel, an Ethics Panel and a Harassment Prevention Panel. Committee members moved and seconded each slate and then called the roll; each motion carried on unanimous recorded votes.
Committee leadership said the nominated members will organize themselves and select their own chairs. No substantive debate about the nominees or panel charge was recorded in the meeting transcript; the committee’s action was limited to approving the slates submitted by the speaker.
Votes at a glance: the committee recorded identical 7-0 tallies for all three motions to appoint the speaker-nominated members. Roll-call responses recorded in the transcript included Representative Poten, Representative Dolan, Representative Bartholomew, Representative McCoy, Representative Tuft, Representative Feltes and the committee chair voting “yes.”
Nominees announced for the House Discrimination Prevention Panel were Representative Rebecca of Winooski, Representative Burrows of West Windsor, Representative Donahue of Northfield, Representative Goffetti of Barre Town and Representative McFawn of Barre Town. The Ethics Panel nominees were Representative Chiena of Burlington, Representative Malone of South Burlington, Representative Bodie of Burlington, Representative Morgan M. of Milton and Representative Taylor of Milton. The Harassment Prevention Panel nominees were Representative Bridal of Georgia, Representative Burke of Bridal, Representative Hedrick of Burlington, Representative Morwicki of Putney and Representative Quindy.
A committee member asked whether the panels would organize themselves; committee leadership replied they would determine who serves as chair. A separate question about JLMC (legislative joint management committee) was raised and the transcript indicates that is handled by the speaker rather than the Rules Committee.
The meeting lasted under four minutes according to the available transcript timestamps, and adjourned after the three votes.
