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Senate adopts rule changes to assign chamber seats, add IT jurisdiction and expand ethics panel
Summary
The Vermont Senate adopted SR 1, amending seat assignments, adding information-technology jurisdiction to a committee (renamed in practice) and expanding the ethics panel to receive discrimination complaints involving senators.
The Vermont Senate adopted Senate Resolution 1 on a voice vote to carry forward the chamber’s permanent rules with several amendments, including reassigned senatorial seating, new committee jurisdiction for information technology and an expansion of the ethics panel’s remit to include discrimination complaints involving senators.
SR 1, read in full to the chamber, amends the permanent rules that govern where senators sit and makes three substantive changes the Senate discussed. First, the resolution updates seat numbering for senatorial districts as a…
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