House Commerce - 2026-01-08 - 9:00AM

Vermont House Committee on Commerce & Economic Development · January 9, 2026

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Committee convenes; Chair (unnamed in transcript) opens the session and says the committee will hear a walkthrough from Rick (introduced by the chair) of a legislative counsel memo on a data-broker bill. Chair asks Rick to begin.

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Legislative counsel walked the Vermont House Commerce & Economic Development Committee through a detailed bill to expand regulation of data brokers: tightened definitions, a new data-broker-specific breach-notice regime, a statewide deletion mechanism, mandatory audits, new penalties, and a data-broker registry fund. Committee members asked about scope, exceptions for regulated industries, audit detail, record retention, and federal AI preemption.

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