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Senate Finance members weigh repealing and streamlining dozens of statutory reports
Summary
Members discussed whether to repeal, retain or extend a long list of statutorily required reports, questioned who uses them, and asked staff to brief the committee on which reports are still produced and where copies are posted.
Members of the Senate Finance committee spent much of their meeting reviewing a long list of statutorily required reports and debating whether to repeal, retain or extend them, asking staff for a follow-up briefing to clarify which reports are produced, who receives them and where they are posted.
The discussion centered on whether routine reports still provide value. Speaker 3 said, "There's gonna be tons of effort being put into producing reports that nobody wants to read, and that's not a good use." Speaker 1 added a practical concern about fees and enforcement, saying, "We had something like 30,000 Vermonters driving with suspended licenses," in an exchange about court-related fees.
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