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Senate amends Fish and Wildlife bill to keep rulemaking with department, expand advisory board
Summary
Senators debated S258 for more than an hour before adopting an amendment that keeps the Fish and Wildlife Board as an advisory body, preserves the governor’s 14 appointments while adding one House and one Senate seat, and affirms departmental rulemaking and training requirements for board appointees.
Senators on the floor debated S258, an act addressing the composition and role of Vermont’s Fish and Wildlife Board, and adopted a committee amendment that narrowed original language and returned rulemaking authority to the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department.
The amendment, presented by the senator reporting the bill, retains the governor’s 14 appointees, adds two legislative appointees (one by the House and one by the Senate), makes the board advisory and restores rulemaking to the department led by the…
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