House adopts committee of conference report on Senate Bill 51, then messages action to Senate

The Vermont House of Representatives suspended its rules to take up and adopt the committee of conference report on Senate Bill 51, an act relating to the Vermont unpaid caregiver tax credit, and then messaged the action to the Senate, the chamber announced during a late-evening session.

The committee of conference had met and recommended that the Senate accede to the House proposal of amendment, the House was told. The first assistant clerk emailed the committee report to members at 9:48 p.m., the presiding officer said, and an amendment was posted on the House overview web page with paper copies available at the main table.

The proceeding opened when a representative moved to suspend the rules to take up Senate Bill 51 for immediate consideration. The presiding officer called for a voice vote; "Aye," members responded, and the presiding officer said, "The ayes do have it, and you have suspended the rules to take up Senate Bill 51 for immediate consideration." The House then voted on whether to adopt the committee of conference report; on another voice vote the presiding officer said, "The ayes do have it, and you have adopted the report of the committee of conference."

After adopting the report, a member moved that the House suspend rules to message its action on Senate Bill 51 to the Senate "forthwith." The motion passed by voice vote, and the presiding officer instructed representatives McCoy (Poultney) and Logan (Burlington) to report to the Speaker's Office before the House took a roughly 10-minute recess.

The House record does not include a roll-call tally in the transcript provided; each action was resolved by voice vote and recorded as having passed. The text of the bill, the proposed amendment, and any fiscal or programmatic impacts were not discussed in the transcript excerpts and are not specified here.