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Senate takes unusual procedural route on H.454, recommits then brings House language to floor
Summary
Senators voted to recommit H.454 (transforming Vermont’s education governance, quality and finance systems) to the Education Committee, then suspended rules to bring the House bill language back for immediate floor amendment — a procedural choice the majority said preserves two pathways to a final bill.
The Vermont Senate on the morning calendar took a procedural route on H.454, the large education governance and finance bill, recommitting the measure to the Senate Committee on Education and then suspending rules to bring the House version of the bill back to the floor for immediate amendment.
A senator identified in the record as the senator from Chittenden framed the move as a deliberate choice between two viable paths: adopting the Senate’s working language or returning to the House bill and amending from there. The senator said the majority had decided to begin with the House language and…
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