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Votes at a glance: Senate messages three overrides to House, sustains veto on data-privacy bill
Summary
The Vermont Senate on June 13 overrode three bills sent to the House (including a ban on neonicotinoid pesticides and a restorative-justice expansion) and sustained the governor's veto on H.121 (data privacy); the Senate then adopted adjournment JRH 12 and adjourned.
The Vermont Senate on June 13 completed several veto-related actions and routine adjournment business. The chamber overrode gubernatorial vetoes on multiple bills earlier in the day and messaged those actions to the House; separately, the Senate failed to override the governor on H.121 (data privacy and age-appropriate design), sustaining that veto.
Key votes and actions announced on the floor:
- H.706 (ban on neonicotinoid pesticides): Senate announced an override earlier in the session (secretary reported 20 yea, 9 nay on the roll call) and later included H.706 among bills messaged to the House.
- H.645 (expansion of restorative justice approaches): After taking up H.645 for immediate consideration, the Senate recorded a roll-call override vote (21 yea, 8 nay) and the Secretary announced the governor's veto had been overridden.
- H.72 (harm-reduction criminal justice response to drug use): The Senate indicated it had completed an override for H.72 earlier in the day's business and included H.72 among the bills messaged forthwith to the House.
After messaging actions on H.72, H.645 and H.706 to the House, the Senate adopted JRH 12 relating to final adjournment of the General Assembly and directed the secretary to inform the House that the Senate had completed its business. The Committee on Committees appointed the senator from Chittenden Central (named on the floor later as Senator Baruth) to the Joint Fiscal Committee, then the Senate adjourned pursuant to JRH 12.
Procedural notes: The clerk and presiding officers read veto messages into the record where required by the Vermont constitution (chapter 2, section 11), and the Senate used roll-call votes for the override questions as constitutionally mandated.
