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Senate floor roundup: joint resolution adopted; several bills advanced or passed
Summary
On May 5, 2025 the Vermont Senate adopted JRS 25 to set adjourn/reconvene dates, ordered third reading of SR 14, concurred with a House amendment to S.36, passed H.98 and H.494 and ordered third reading of H.491; the Senate also messaged H.494 to the House.
The Vermont Senate completed several procedural and final actions on Monday, adopting a joint resolution on adjournment dates, advancing multiple bills and passing two measures on third reading.
Key outcomes recorded in the transcript portion provided:
- JRS 25 (weekend adjournment): The Senate adopted the joint resolution setting a reconvene date after adjournment. The clerk read the resolution and the chamber approved it by voice vote.
- SR 14 (avian influenza vaccine reserve): The Senate read SR 14 for second reading and ordered it for third reading; no final passage vote is recorded in the provided transcript.
- S.36 (Medicaid payment model for residential substance use disorder treatment services): The Senate concurred with the House proposal of amendment; the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare supported concurrence on language changes and new reporting and training provisions.
- H.98 (confirmatory adoptions): The Senate read H.98 for third reading and passed the bill in concurrence with a proposal of amendment.
- H.494 (capital construction and state bonding): The Senate read H.494 for third reading and passed it in concurrence. A senator moved that the Senate message its actions on H.494 to the House forthwith and the motion carried.
- H.491 (homestead and nonhomestead property tax rates): The Senate read H.491 for second reading and the committee on finance reported it should pass in concurrence; the Senate ordered third reading. The committee reported property dollar equivalent yields and nonhomestead rate and said the changes take effect July 1, 2025 to allow property tax bills to be issued.
Most floor votes in the transcript were recorded as voice votes (ayes/nays) and the transcript does not include roll-call tallies for these actions. Committee recommendations and brief reports were included where noted.
