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Senate adopts weekend-adjournment resolution, refers S183 to Judiciary and recommits S26 to Health and Welfare
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Summary
The Senate adopted JRS 51 setting a May 1, 2026 adjournment and reconvening date, voted to send S183 (home improvement/land-improvement fraud) to the Judiciary Committee for consideration of a veto override, and recommitted S26 (prohibiting certain artificial dyes in school foods) to Health and Welfare before recessing for a caucus.
The Senate adopted a joint resolution setting a weekend adjournment and reconvening date and took three procedural actions before recessing for an explanatory caucus on the budget.
The clerk read JRS 51, "Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives that when the 2 houses adjourn on Friday, 05/01/2026, it be to meet again no later than Tuesday, 05/05/2026," and the chamber voted by voice to adopt the resolution. The reading was performed by the clerk of the body.
Later in the session the senator from Chittenden drew members' attention to a gubernatorial veto on S183, an act relating to home improvement and land improvement fraud, and moved that the potential veto override be committed to the Committee on Judiciary for further consideration. The presiding officer put the question and the motion carried on a voice vote.
The senator from Chittenden also moved to recommit S26 — an act described on the calendar as prohibiting certain artificial dyes in foods and beverages served or sold at school — to the Committee on Health and Welfare. That motion likewise carried on a voice vote.
With those items completed, the chamber recessed so members could hold an explanatory caucus of the whole on the budget and said it would return for the orders of the day.
