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Senate adopts several bills on third reading, including sealing criminal records and Medicaid coverage for doulas
Summary
The Senate adopted multiple bills on third reading by voice vote in this session. Actions included adoption of a joint resolution on adjournment and passage of several bills on third reading.
The Senate recorded passage by voice vote of several distinct measures on third reading during this session. The measures and recorded outcomes in this transcript are listed below.
Votes at a glance - JRS 19: Joint resolution relating to weekend adjournment on March 28, 2025. Adopted by voice vote when read into the record. - S.12: An act relating to sealing criminal history records. Passed on third reading by voice vote. - S.53: An act relating to certification of community-based perinatal doulas and Medicaid coverage for doula services. Passed on third reading by voice vote. - S.56: An act relating to creating an office of new Americans. Passed on third reading by voice vote. - S.63: An act relating to modifying the regulatory duties of the Green Mountain Care Board. Passed on third reading by voice vote; sponsor noted the bill aligns psychiatric hospital fiscal years with other hospitals and codifies current practice for Brattleboro Retreat. - S.117: An act relating to rulemaking on safety and health standards and technical corrections on employment practices and unemployment compensation. Passed on third reading by voice vote.
For each of the items above, the transcript records the first and third readings and then the presiding officer calling the question. Each recorded passage in the transcript was resolved by voice vote with the presiding officer announcing "the ayes have it." The transcript does not include roll-call tallies for these measures.
What the record shows and does not show - The transcript shows the formal readings and the presiding officer's announcement of outcomes. It does not include numbered roll-call votes or further debate for the items listed above. - For S.63, the sponsor responding to a question noted that the change aligns psychiatric hospital fiscal years with other hospitals and codifies existing practice for Brattleboro Retreat; no budgetary impact was recorded on the floor in this excerpt.
Each bill listed above will have separate committee records and fiscal notes not reproduced in full in this transcript.
