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[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: Alright. We're live. Thank you, everyone. We are back. House government operations and live military affairs. House representative, state of Vermont general assembly. We are now wrapping up our week with s two ninety eight match relating to creating the Vermont Voting Rights Act, maybe discussion and possible vote. We've done an immense amount of work on this this week, And I just wanted to thank the table for the time, energy, effort, thought that went into it. I think we've made this thing a better bill, and we took care of a very, known and looming problem with the candidate disclosure forms. That was a very big lift, so I want to recognize that job well done. And any further comment, discussion, or concerns from the table? Alright, seeing none, who would like to make a motion?
[Unidentified committee member (motion maker)]: I will. I think the motion that we find, is it draft 5.1 or is it a new one? I make a motion that we find, draft 5.1, S two ninety eight, favorable.
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: Alright, last call for comment or concerns. Seeing none, Clerk will call the roll.
[Lucy Boyden (Clerk)]: Representative Boyden, yes. Representative Coffin?
[VL Coffin IV (Member)]: Yes.
[Lucy Boyden (Clerk)]: Representative Hango? Yes. Representative Hooper? Michael Morgan?
[Michael Morgan (Member)]: Yes.
[Lucy Boyden (Clerk)]: Representative Nugent? Yes. Representative Pinsonault? Yes. Representative Scully? Yes. Representative Stone? Yes. Representative Waters Evans? Yes. Representative Birong? Yes. Ten-zero-one.
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: And Representative Waters Evans will be the reporter of the bill. Alright. Great work, team. That was a big lift. Next week, we're gonna take up some more childcare, but we're really gonna put the pedal down on the cannabis bill that was sent over from the Senate. We really, had prioritized a couple of other things. We've let that one hang, but we need to stop doing billing work on that one. So that's just a heads up for next week's priority. So alright. With that