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Judiciary committee says S.44 preserves governor's sole authority for ICE agreements; House orders third reading
Summary
S.44 would remove an emergency exception that allowed local law enforcement to enter into certain ICE agreements and retain the governor, after consultation with the attorney general, as Vermont's sole authority to enter such agreements; the House Judiciary Committee recommended concurrence and third reading was ordered.
Representative Arsenal, speaking for the House Judiciary Committee, presented S.44 on May 7 and reported the committeevoted unanimously to recommend concurrence with the Senate version of the bill.
"As the title suggests, this bill concerns the statute 20 V.S.A. § 4652, which details how the state may enter into certain types of agreements with Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE," Representative Arsenal said on the floor. He told members the bill is…
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