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The high drama might be over for a while, but pension reform remains a high priority in the Legislature.
This week, the House Government Operations Committee is considering a new draft proposal to expand the membership of the Vermont Pension Investment Committee (VPIC) and establish a task force to study possible solutions to the stateâs thorny unfunded pension liability problem.
This is the other shoe from House leadershipâs decision two weeks ago, under pressure from state employee unions, to focus on governance now and study the solutions to unfunded liability over the summer. The unions had widely panned the initial proposal for reform as forcing them to work longer, pay more, and get less.
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Leonine Public Affairs This week Governor Phil Scott announced his plan to reopen the state and lift the most significant restrictions that have been in place since the COVID-19 pandemic reached Vermont. The Vermont Forward Plan aims to lift gathering, distancing and masking requirements by July 4, although social distancing and masking will continue to be encouraged. Beginning on April 9 the plan allows for unvaccinated visitors to enter the state without quarantine if they’ve had a negative test within three days prior to their arrival. On June 1, unvaccinated visitors may enter the state with no quarantine or testing requirements. Universal guidance for business operations will be adopted between mid-April and July 4, after which universal guidance will be recommended for all sectors. The plan anticipates 60 to 70 percent of Vermonters will have received one dose of the vaccine by June.
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MONTPELIER â It took a month and a half, but a bill containing $10.5 million in COVID-19 relief to businesses that had not previously qualified for aid, and a great deal more federally-funded relief spending, has finally passed the Vermont Legislature.
Tuesday, the House made additions to the version the Senate had amended and passed last month. The two chambers agreed that would suffice as the final version of the bill, and the Senate concurred unanimously Thursday.
When it passed the House the first time on Feb. 26, the bill, H. 315, carried $70 million in spending. By the time the Senate was finished with it on March 24, it had grown to more than $100 million.
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