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Under the Dome: Education: School Construction, PCBs in Schools, Cell Phone Use, Literacy 06/03/2024

Host Bobby Lussier, CCTV's Development Director, speaks with Representative Mary-Katherine Stone, Representative Sarah "Sarita" Austin, Representative Angela Arsenault, and Senator Martine Gulick about education.

To contact your local representative, you can find their contact information on the State's website. 

Under the Dome: Healthcare: Expansion of Medicaid & Dr. Dynosaur, Addiction Recovery, Mental Health Resources, Flavored Tobacco (Senate) 05/13/2024

Host Bobby Lussier, CCTV's Development Director, speaks with Senator Virginia "Ginny" Lyons and Senator Martine Gulick about healthcare.

To contact your local representative, you can find their contact information on the State's website. 

Under the Dome: Healthcare: Expansion of Medicaid & Dr. Dynosaur, Addiction Recovery, Mental Health Resources, Flavored Tobacco (House) 05/13/2024

Host Bobby Lussier, CCTV's Development Director, speaks with Representative Lori Houghton, Representative Daisy Berbeco, and Representative Rey Garofano about healthcare.

To contact your local representative, you can find their contact information on the State's website. 

Under the Dome: Public Safety & Criminal Justice: Gun Control, Retail Theft, Drug Use Prosecution, and 'Raise the Age' 05/06/2024

Host Bobby Lussier, CCTV's Development Director, speaks with Representative Martin LaLonde and Representative Angela Arsenault about public safety.

To contact your local representative, you can find their contact information on the State's website. 

Under the Dome: Housing: Emergency Shelter, Affordable Housing, and Act 250 Reform 04/29/2024

Host Bobby Lussier, CCTV's Development Director, speaks with Representative Carol Ode, Representative Kate Logan, Senator Kesha Ram Hinsdale, and Representative Emilie Krasnow about housing.

To contact your local representative, you can find their contact information on the State's website. 

Under the Dome: Trip to the Vermont State House - Vermont Access Network at the Card Room 04/26/2024

As part of Town Meeting TV's coverage of the 2024 legislative session, Emily and Bobby travel to the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier to cover the Vermont Access Network (VAN)'s day in the Card Room advocating for AMOs, funding, and support of legislation.

Under the Dome: Climate & Environment: Neonics, Flooding, and Renewable Energy Standards 04/22/2024

Host Bobby Lussier, CCTV's Development Director, speaks with Representative Gabrielle Stebbins and Representative Kate Logan about climate and the environment on this Earth Day edition of Under The Dome.

To contact your local representative, you can find their contact information on the State's website. 

Under the Dome: Revenue Generation and Tax Impacts - Increased Taxes on Income, Corporations, and Commercial Property Cost Pressures 04/15/2024

Host Meghan O'Rourke, CCTV, speaks with Representative Tiffany Bluemle and Representative Julia Andrews about revenue generation and tax impacts.

To contact your local representative, you can find their contact information on the State's website. 

Community Media Public Benefit Bill: H.575 and S.181: Vermont Senate Committee on Finance - Testimony of H.657 Modernize Vermont’s Communications Taxes and Fees 04/12/2024

Testimony of H.657 a bill meant to modernize Vermont's communications taxes and fees at the Senate Committee on Finance.

On Friday,  the committee continued testimony on the bill on and off throughout the afternoon.

H.657: As Passed by the House:
https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2024/WorkGroups/Senate%20Finance/Bills/H.657/Drafts,%20Amendments,%20Other%20Legal%20Documents/H.657~Maria%20Royle~As%20Passed%20by%20the%20House~4-10-2024.pdf

Community Media Public Benefit Bill: H.575 and S.181: Vermont House Committee on Government Operations - Walkthrough of S.55 Update to Open Meeting Law 04/12/2024

Walkthrough of S.55 Update to Open Meeting Law at the House Committee on Government Operations.

On Friday, the committee continued discussing S.55 - they had a walkthrough of Draft 1.3 of the bill from legislative counsel. A list of items changed/added in this draft are below:

  • Added Hybrid Meeting definition
  • Added Undue Hardship definition
  • Defining Requests for access (who can ask, when they have to ask by, what undue hardship entails)
  • Secretary of State providing training
  • Adding threat of death or serious bodily injury to Local Incident
  • Added requirement of posting recorded meetings within 24 hours
  • Updated the Bill name to reflect the true intentions of the bill 

S.55: Draft 1.3:
https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2024/WorkGroups/House%20Government%20Operations/Bills/S.55/Drafts,%20Amendents,%20and%20Legal%20Documents/S.55~Tim%20Devlin~%20Draft%201.3,%204-11-2024~4-12-2024.pdf

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