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[Virginia "Ginny" Lyons (Chair)]: Okay, thank you so much. Welcome back to the conference committee for H816. We are meeting to hopefully finalize some of the changes that we have agreed upon and and moved toward. So I will just ask if I would if I could let your counsel to walk us through the proposed changes. Sure. Thank you.
[Katie (Legislative Counsel)]: Let me just send out some legislative council. Here is the new document because the Senator has requested this change, where title here is the Senate proposal. It's exactly the same with the document you looked at this morning, but the exception in section five, section five, this is the membership of the Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council. You have added a subdivision J, the executive director of the Vermont Board of Medical Practice or designee. And that's it. Otherwise, it should
[Virginia "Ginny" Lyons (Chair)]: be the same. Wonderful. Well, thank you so much for making that change. Wondering, are you all feeling good about where our bill h3c is landing? I am. Yeah.
[Martine Larocque Gulick (Vice Chair)]: Alright. But you have one question for the lecture council. What letter of the alphabet is L? You know? Oh. I could try to figure it out.
[Katie (Legislative Counsel)]: I'm picking up that. I don't know.
[Martine Larocque Gulick (Vice Chair)]: I'm trying to figure out how many people are on the council now. Because we're, you know, we're just so that I'm aware of, like, how many Right. We're adding another person.
[Virginia "Ginny" Lyons (Chair)]: Yeah. Five to four or whatever.
[Martine Larocque Gulick (Vice Chair)]: 12. That's not bad.
[Virginia "Ginny" Lyons (Chair)]: Not bad. 12 isn't bad.
[Martine Larocque Gulick (Vice Chair)]: No. It's like the decitums where it doesn't end. So it's like a number. Alright. Or a committee plus one. It's like a jury. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. I don't wanna take too much time on it. It's just more being acknowledging that we're increasing.
[Virginia "Ginny" Lyons (Chair)]: Trying to remember from the other bill how many people were on that group, and I think yeah. Because we're adding two, and it was tenants. Well, perfect. That's fine. Is senator Orleans doing about I'm feeling very good. Wonderful. So I think we have an agreement. Okay. And I think the protocol requires us to shake hands if they can sign something. Is that correct? Mhmm. Do we What did they do when I coughed? No.
[Martine Larocque Gulick (Vice Chair)]: I sprayed. So there's no shaking hand. I'll shake your hand. My hand might be a little sticky because of the humidity.
[Virginia "Ginny" Lyons (Chair)]: Like, everybody's You had a border cluster when we did two oh, yeah. Do chair the committee of chair.
[Martine Larocque Gulick (Vice Chair)]: Does this go into the state archives? Technology. Because someday our signature gonna be found in an archive with because robots are digging back to figure out how old you know, how their origins started. You know? We're laughing.
[Virginia "Ginny" Lyons (Chair)]: Oh, Brian, thank you, Joe.
[Martine Larocque Gulick (Vice Chair)]: Like robots on a planet in another, you know, system.
[Virginia "Ginny" Lyons (Chair)]: We
[Martine Larocque Gulick (Vice Chair)]: don't have to write our title. We just sign it. Right? Yeah. I don't know why they put my middle initial. Never use my
[Virginia "Ginny" Lyons (Chair)]: middle Only for a picture.
[Katie (Legislative Counsel)]: I did send you the clean
[Virginia "Ginny" Lyons (Chair)]: ones. Okay.
[Martine Larocque Gulick (Vice Chair)]: I'll get the title. I don't know how they have any notes. The signature. Yeah. How did you know my middle initial?
[Virginia "Ginny" Lyons (Chair)]: I will get senator Benson. Good luck.
[Katie (Legislative Counsel)]: It auto like auto fills when I click on your name.
[Martine Larocque Gulick (Vice Chair)]: That's so weird.
[Virginia "Ginny" Lyons (Chair)]: Alright. Well, you very much. And she's been a pleasure working with you. Thank you so much. It's like
[Martine Larocque Gulick (Vice Chair)]: good game. Good game. No.
[Katie (Legislative Counsel)]: Good game. No. Good game.
[Virginia "Ginny" Lyons (Chair)]: No one lost. No. No. Good bills. Thank you. And there'll be more next year.
[Martine Larocque Gulick (Vice Chair)]: Oh, we're gonna have a lot of recommendations to look at. So
[Virginia "Ginny" Lyons (Chair)]: This year's not over. Right. Now it's not. That's true. Thank you. Thank you. Good work as well. Thank you, Katie. Yeah.