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Act No. 52 (H.122). Executive Branch; boards and commissions
An act relating to boards and commissions
This act makes the following changes to various boards and commissions
within State government:
(1) Secs. 2–3 make minor conforming language changes to statutory
provisions relating to National Forest Lands.
(2) Secs. 4–6 move the Women’s Commission to a new chapter within
Title 3, make changes to the Commission appointment requirements, and remove
the prohibition on Commission funds being used for legislative or administrative
advocacy.
(3) Sec. 7 repeals the Toxics Technical Advisory Board in its entirety.
(4) Sec. 8 repeals the Champion Land Transaction Citizen Advisory
Council in its entirety;
(5) Sec. 9 repeals the Working Group on Conservation Easements in its
entirety.
(6) Secs. 10–11 repeal the Prekindergarten-16 Council and transfer a
portion of the Prekindergarten–16 Council’s duties to the Vermont Higher
Education Endowment Trust Fund Council established in Title 16.
(7) Secs. 12–17 make miscellaneous changes to the statutory provisions
relating to the Division of Emergency Management in the Department of Public
Safety, including:
(A) establishing regional emergency management committees to
coordinate emergency planning and preparedness activities to improve their
regions’ ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from all disasters [Sec. 12]
(B) increasing the number of members on the State Emergency
Response Commission from 15 to 17 members [Sec. 13]
(C) making miscellaneous clarifications in the description of the duties
of the State Emergency Response Commission, which are generally housekeeping
in nature [Sec. 14]
(D) making miscellaneous clarifications in the description of the duties
of the local emergency planning committees and adding the requirement that
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where a local emergency planning committee represents more than one region of
the State, the appointed representatives shall be geographically diverse [Sec. 15]
(E) repealing the statutory provisions establishing and governing the
radiological emergency response plan fund and amending the statutory provisions
governing the hazardous chemical and substance emergency response fund to
specify a total annual grant amount that may be given to local emergency
planning committees [Sec. 16]
(F) making conforming language changes to the Emergency
Management Division duties and repealing provisions relating to a radiological
emergency response plan [Sec. 17]
Effective Dates: Secs. 1–11 (misc. boards and commissions) take effect on June
3, 2021, and Secs. 12–17 (emergency management commission/committees) take
effect on July 1, 2021.
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Statutes affected:
As Introduced: 1-554, 1-555, 1-556, 3-2873, 10-156, 16-2905, 16-2885
As Passed By the House -- Official: 1-554, 1-555, 1-556, 3-2873, 10-156, 16-2905, 16-2885
As Passed By the House -- Unofficial: 1-555, 1-556, 3-2873, 10-156, 16-2905, 16-2885
As Passed by Both House and Senate -- Official: 1-554, 1-555, 1-556, 3-2873, 10-156, 16-2905, 16-2885, 20-30, 20-31, 20-32, 20-38, 20-3a
As Passed by Both House and Senate -- Unofficial: 1-555, 1-556, 3-2873, 10-156, 16-2905, 16-2885, 20-30, 20-31, 20-32, 20-38, 20-3a
As Enacted: 1-555, 1-556, 3-2873, 10-156, 16-2905, 16-2885, 20-30, 20-31, 20-32, 20-38, 20-3a