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Committee debates Logan amendment on municipal security-deposit authority and charter approvals
Summary
Members debated the Logan amendment’s two elements: approving three municipal charter amendments submitted to the legislature and giving towns authority to adopt ordinances governing security deposits. Members worried about tenant confusion, jurisdictional overlap with Government Operations, and lack of testimony.
The House Committee on General & Housing spent a portion of a March 27 meeting discussing the Logan amendment, which would (in part) approve three municipal charter amendments submitted to the legislature and authorize municipalities to adopt ordinances that could provide greater protections on security deposits than state law.
The chair explained that charter amendments submitted by Burlington, Essex and Montpelier require legislative approval and that Government Operations had already met and, according to the chair’s reading of…
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