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[Speaker Jill Krowinski]: Will the house please come to order and members kindly take their seats? Will the house please come to order? Welcome back members. Good morning. Good morning. On Saturday, we heard the unthinkable news of the assassination of the former speaker of the house representative, Melissa Portman and her husband, and the shooting of senator Hoffman and his wife. There are really no words to describe how tragic this event was, and we are keeping our colleagues in Minnesota in our hearts and our thoughts and our prayers. Will you please rise and join me in a moment of silence? Members and guests, will you please remain standing and join me in the pledge of allegiance? I pledge Members, I just wanna update you on the schedule for today. During, our morning session, we will vote on s 23 and act relating to the use of synthetic media in elections. We will then recess until 2PM for lunch and other meetings. My understanding is government operations is meeting at 12:45 to address house bill four seventy four which will be coming over to us from the senate. At 2PM, we'll come back and address house bill four seventy four and then we will recess until later in the afternoon to address house bill four fifty four and house bill four eighty. So that's the schedule for today. 10AM S23, 2PM house bill four seventy four and then four or 04:30PM house bill four fifty four and house bill four eighty. Members, also, this will be our only set of announcements for today. So with that, are there any announcements? Member from Jericho.
[Representative Trevor Squirrell]: Thank you, madam speaker. I'm delighted today to welcome a few people from the Mount Mansfield Girls Tennis Team. On Thursday, they won the state championships for division two. This is their third year in a row doing it, and representing the team today are three of the six graduating seniors. Our first doubles team of Juniper Galvani and Rosa Rickettsson and our third singles player, Estelle First, are here representing the team, and I'm hoping that the body can welcome them and share in their victory with us.
[Speaker Jill Krowinski]: Will the guests and the member from Jericho please rise and be recognized? Member from Chittenden.
[Representative Jim Harrison]: Thank you, Madam Speaker. Several weeks ago at the conclusion of the entries for the annual adjournment pool, I might have might have called out a colleague for being overly pessimistic and awarded him in fun, the Debbie Downer Award. It was a senior member from Waterbury. Well, madam speaker, I have it on good source from the clerk's office that the member from Waterbury has won this year's adjournment pool. I take back everything I might have said in just a few weeks ago. But I also have it on good source that his winnings will be enough to buy members of the House Appropriations Committee creamies this afternoon if we get a break. So everything has a good side to it. So and I also wanna take this opportunity to thank all those that participated in the adjournment pool and help us raise money for the Vermont Food Bank. Thank you.
[Speaker Jill Krowinski]: Are there any further announcements? Member from Holtney.
[Representative Michael Mrowicki]: Madam speaker, just on behalf of the entire chamber, we just want to say our sincere sorry to the loss of your mom. I know you've been dealing with that for a year or two, so we are very, very sorry that for the loss of your mom.
[Speaker Jill Krowinski]: Thank you. Thank you members for your thoughts and messages and texts. It means a lot to me and my family. Are there any further announcements? Seeing none, orders of the day. Members, we will begin with senate bill 23, which is an act related to the use of synthetic media in elections. Please listen to the third reading of the bill.
[House Clerk BetsyAnn Wrask]: S 23, an act relating to the use of synthetic media in elections.
[Speaker Jill Krowinski]: The question is, shall the bill pass in concurrence with proposal of amendment? Are you ready for the question? If so, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed, please say nay. Aye. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it, and you have passed the bill in concurrence with proposal of amendment. Members, the house will now stand in recess until the fall of the gavel at 2PM.