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[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: Alright. We're live. Alright, everyone. Welcome back. It is, chapter 10 on Wednesday, March 11. We are picking up work with our technical corrections bill. It is draft number two six zero seven eight zero, an act relating to technical corrections for the twenty twenty six legislative session. We are reviewing draft number 1.3, and with us is legislative council, Maria Royal.
[Maria Royal (Legislative Counsel)]: Good morning. Yes. Maria Royal with legislative council. What would be most helpful? Do you want to actually look at the document? Should I pull it up on the screen? Or do you want me to just tell you there's only one substantive change? I think Whatever.
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: Yeah, might as well pull up on the screen just if anybody's watching at home. And we can just take a look at that adjustment. Okay.
[Maria Royal (Legislative Counsel)]: I just need the authority to share my script. So, this is draft 1.3. And I will also say that our editors took another look at the draft, which they always do when they can, and made even more technical, technical changes. Most of it was just formatting. But the one substantive change, roll all the way through, but I think I might have to, is just section 127 has been deleted. And I'll just show you Let to me just find out. Okay, here we go. So this is on page 103. So in order not to have to renumber all the other sections, I just left 127 but put deleted. And this was a section that my colleague Kirby Keaton worked on. It was a tax issue, and particularly an authorization to take $100,000 from the Ed Fund and use it to pay for an existing education program for listers. He had indicated that because of prior, repeals and recodifications that that authority had been deleted, and so was the clarification. But he also said they're gonna look at it in miscellaneous tax, that might, there might be some more complicating factors. So they're working on it there, so it's no longer here. Okay. That is the only substantive change. Okay.
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: That was briskier than anticipated. Opening that session because it's less technical than we anticipated, or more technical, I should say. Or did that thought?
[Maria Royal (Legislative Counsel)]: It's an updated section by section summary. Yes. Yep. Okay.
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: We do have this scheduled for a vote. We're a little short on body mass, but
[Lucy Boyden (Clerk)]: we could vote this right now if we wanted to.
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: Thoughts committee, do we wait till later when we're voting on other things when we have more body mass?
[Unidentified member]: I can get one more person in here right now.
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: Okay.
[Unidentified member]: If that makes any difference. Sure.
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: I mean, I'd say, yeah, is one more, but I would like to get this. No, it looks like based on that. Yes.
[Maria Royal (Legislative Counsel)]: No, I said, let's meet. Let's talk after.
[Unidentified member]: We're just about to vote on detect corrections. No, I need to. They're live immunity. Right. A balanced stuff.
[Maria Royal (Legislative Counsel)]: This is like if you referenced every I wonder if it's something that
[Unidentified member]: I don't know how that's usually presented on. Last
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: year ish. Me?
[Unidentified member]: No. We're about to vote There on a tech direction
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: was there was one section that was removed that was more technical than anticipated. It was a section pertaining to
[Unidentified member]: It does not involve that piece of paper.
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: Yeah. Was in here. It was a piece that her is more substantive than what this is supposed to do as a technical direction, so it was removed. Just language changes to update.
[Maria Royal (Legislative Counsel)]: An overview of what changes are.
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: That at all.
[Maria Royal (Legislative Counsel)]: Okay. I think
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: we can do that. We'll still get all the information. Alright, team. We have one more member with us, so we'll do this vote now, barring any other discussion or comment. We'll get a motion. I'll make
[Lucy Boyden (Clerk)]: a motion we go ahead and vote in the affirmative the act relating to technical corrections for the twenty twenty six legislative session. Second that.
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: And the draft number is. 26Dash0780.
[Lucy Boyden (Clerk)]: 1.3. 1.3. Sorry.
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: Motion has been made. Clerk will call the roll.
[Lucy Boyden (Clerk)]: Representative Boyden. Yes. Representative Coffin. Yes. Representative Hango. Representative Cooper Randolph?
[Philip Jay Hooper (Member)]: Yes.
[Lucy Boyden (Clerk)]: Representative Cooper of Burlington? Representative Morgan?
[Michael Morgan (Member)]: Yes.
[Lucy Boyden (Clerk)]: Representative Nugent? Yes. Representative Pinsonault? Yes. Representative Stone? Representative Boris Evans? Yes. Representative Byron? Yes.
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: Representative Coffin will be the reporter of the bill.
[Lucy Boyden (Clerk)]: Eight zero three.
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: Thank you, Clerk. And I will take us offline until 10:30. I'm sorry, we have a little bit more of a gap than that. I will take us offline until eleven. We're back at work with H five one nine, and actually, do authorizing officers of the town of Randolph Police Department to enroll in the previously of Vermont State Employees Retirement System. Until then, take us off.