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Senator urges retroactive fix to close Act 250 exemption gap; Senate orders 3rd reading of H.599

SENATE · February 7, 2024
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Senator Watson told the Senate H.599 would reinstate a paragraph removed last year that creates an Act 250 exemption for development existing or pending on June 1, 1970; committee recommended favorably and the body ordered a 3rd reading.

Senator Watson, reporting for the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy, asked the Senate to concur in H.599, a bill to retroactively reinstate a paragraph deleted last year that provides an Act 250 exemption for development that already existed or was pending as of June 1, 1970.

Watson said the paragraph was removed inadvertently when last session’s boards-and-commissions cleanup (H.125, now Act 53) deleted…

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