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House adopts committee of conference report on S.45, sends action to Senate
Summary
The House of Representatives suspended rules to take up and adopt the committee of conference report on Senate Bill 45, an act relating to protection from nuisance suits for agricultural activities, and sent the action to the Senate by voice votes.
The House of Representatives suspended its rules to take up and then adopt the committee of conference report on Senate Bill 45 — described in the record as "an act relating to protection from nuisance suits for agricultural activities" — and promptly messaged the action to the Senate, the transcript shows.
The report came after disagreeing votes between the two chambers prompted a committee of conference. The committee met, made a small change to one section to clarify when nuisance-protection applies, and recommended adoption. The first assistant clerk emailed the conference report to members at 9:02 p.m.; a copy was also posted on the House overview webpage and paper copies were made available at the main table, according to the record.
Member from Poultney moved to suspend the rules to take up S.45 for immediate consideration; the presiding officer called a voice vote, saying "The ayes appear to have it." The House then adopted the committee of conference report on its part on a subsequent voice vote. Member from Shaftesbury raised a procedural point about which version of the amendment was posted online, saying the "correct version was the version that was emailed out to members earlier this evening." The member from Shaftesbury also summarized the substantive change: the committee "add[ed] some clarity to the language around, nuisance protection and when, when a neighbor could claim that the farmer's nuisance was so, egregious that it no longer qualified for the protection."
After adoption, a motion to suspend the rules to message the House's action on S.45 to the Senate forthwith passed on a voice vote; the presiding officer again announced that "the ayes do have it." The record does not show a roll-call tally or the names of members voting yes or no.
The committee of conference report and the email time appear in the meeting record as supporting materials; the House then moved on to the next item on the action calendar, House Bill 4-79.
