Vermont 2017-2018 Regular Session Status: Passed Senate

S. 281 — An act relating to the mitigation of systemic racism

Last action — Rules suspended & ordered delivered to Governor forthwith, on motion of Senator Ashe

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed Senate
  4. 4
    Passed House
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill died with 2017-2018 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Senate” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there are no live odds of enactment. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

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Action History

  1. Rules suspended & ordered delivered to Governor forthwith, on motion of Senator Ashe

  2. As passed by Senate and House

  3. Senate message, report of committee of conference adopted

  4. Committee of Conference report adopted

  5. Committee of Conference report submitted by Senator Pearson for Committee, text

  6. Rules suspended & taken up for immediate consideration, on motion of Senator Ashe

  7. House message House adopted Conference Committee report

  8. Rules suspended and bill messaged forthwith to the Senate as moved by Rep. Turner of Milton

  9. Committee of Conference report adopted (Senate bill)

  10. Rules Suspended and Taken up for Immediate Consideration as moved by Rep. Savage of Swanton

  11. Committee of Conference appointed: Senators Pearson, Collamore, and White

  12. House message House refused to concur in Senate proposal of amendment & requested Conference Committee; House Conference Committee members appointed

  13. Rules suspended & messaged to House forthwith, on motion of Senator Ashe

  14. Rules suspended and bill messaged forthwith to the Senate as moved by Rep. Savage of Swanton

  15. Speaker appointed Gannon of Wilmington, Harrison of Chittenden and Weed of Enosburgh as members of the Committee of Conference on the part of the House

  16. Senate Proposal of Amendment not concurred in and Committee of Conference requested upon motion of Rep. Gannon of Wilmington

  17. Rules Suspended and Taken up for Immediate Consideration as moved by Rep. Savage of Swanton

  18. Senate message, House proposal of amendment concurred in with further amendment thereto

  19. Rules suspended & messaged to House forthwith, on motion of Senator Balint

  20. House proposal of amendment concurred in with further proposal of amendment as moved by Senator(s) Collamore

  21. Senator Collamore moved to concur in House proposal of amendment with proposal of amendment; text

  22. House proposal of amendment; text

  23. Unfinished Business/House Proposal of Amendment

  24. Unfinished Business/House Proposal of Amendment

  25. Unfinished Business/House Proposal of Amendment

  26. New Business/House Proposal of Amendment

  27. House message House passed bill in concurrence with proposal(s) of amendment

  28. House Proposal of Amendment

  29. Entered on Notice Calendar

  30. Rules suspended and bill messaged forthwith to the Senate as moved by Rep. Savage of Swanton

  31. Read Third time and Passed in Concurrence with Proposal of Amendment

  32. Third Reading Ordered

  33. Report of Committee on Government Operations agreed to.

  34. Roll Call Results Passed -- Needed 72 of 142 to Pass -- Yeas = 140, Nays = 2

  35. Rep. Trieber of Rockingham recommended for the committee on Appropriations

  36. Rep. Gannon of Wilmington reported for the committee on Government Operations

  37. Read Second Time

  38. Referred to Committee on Appropriations per Rule 35(a)

  39. Read First Time and Referred to the Committee on Government Operations

  40. Read 3rd time & passed

  41. New Business/Third Reading

  42. 3rd reading ordered

  43. Recommendation of amendment by Committee on Government Operations, as amended, agreed to

  44. Roll Call, requested by Senator Branagan,  Failed -- Needed 16 of 30 to Pass -- Yeas = 12, Nays = 18

  45. Recommendation of amendment disagreed to

  46. Recommendation of amendment by Senator(s) Brock, text

  47. Recommendation of amendment agreed to

  48. Recommendation of amendment by Senator(s) Collamore, text

  49. Recommendation of amendment by Committee on Government Operations amended as recommended by Committee on Appropriations

  50. Reported favorably by Senator Sears for Committee on Appropriations with recommendation of amendment

  51. Read second time, reported favorably with recommendation of amendment by Senator Collamore for Committee on Government Operations

  52. Recommendation of amendment to be offered by Senator(s) Brock

  53. Recommendation of amendment to be offered by Senator(s) Collamore

  54. Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Appropriations

  55. Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Government Operations

  56. Unfinished Business/Second Reading

  57. Recommendation of amendment to be offered by Senator(s) Collamore

  58. Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Appropriations

  59. Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Government Operations

  60. New Business/Second Reading

  61. Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee onAppropriations

  62. Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee onGovernment Operations

  63. Entered on Notice Calendar

  64. Referred to Committee on Appropriations per Senate Rule 31

  65. Entered on Notice Calendar

  66. Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee onGovernment Operations

  67. Read 1st time & referred to Committee on Government Operations

Sponsors

  • Deborah Ingram · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 189 not signed on · 5 voted No

Sponsors (1)

  • Deborah Ingram

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (189)

189 members have not signed on to this bill.

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"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

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Votes

Roll Call Results Passed -- Needed 72 of 142 to Pass -- Yeas = 140, Nays = 2

Passed 140 Yea · 2 Nay · 8 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 98208
Democrat 24000
Republican 15000
Independent 2000
Progressive/Democrat 1000
Total 140208
% of votes cast 93%1%0%5%
How each member voted (150)
Member Party Vote
Deen — Yea
Bancroft — Yea
Copeland-Hanzas — Yea
Dakin — Yea
Baser — Yea
Batchelor — Yea
Belaski — Yea
Bissonnette — Yea
Bock — Yea
Briglin — Yea
Browning — Yea
Brumsted — Yea
Carr — Yea
Christensen — Yea
Colburn — Yea
Connor — Yea
Conquest — Yea
Cupoli — Yea
Hooper — Yea
Hooper — Yea
Lewis — Yea
McCormack — Yea
Donovan — Yea
Dunn — Yea
Fields — Yea
Forguites — Yea
Gage — Yea
Gamache — Yea
Gardner — Yea
Giambatista — Yea
Grad — Yea
Jessup — Yea
Jickling — Yea
Joseph — Yea
Juskiewicz — Yea
Keefe — Yea
Keenan — Yea
Kitzmiller — Yea
LaClair — Yea
Lanpher — Yea
Lawrence — Yea
Lefebvre — Yea
Lippert — Yea
Lucke — Yea
Macaig — Yea
Martel — Yea
McCullough — Yea
Myers — Yea
Nolan — Yea
Partridge — Yea
Poirier — Yea
Potter — Yea
Shaw — Yea
Smith — Yea
Smith — Yea
Sullivan — Yea
Sullivan — Yea
Taylor — Yea
Townsend — Yea
Weed — Yea
Ainsworth — Not Voting
Johnson — Not Voting
Miller — Not Voting
Condon — Not Voting
Graham — Not Voting
Pearce — Not Voting
Scheuermann — Yea
Strong — Yea
Stuart — Yea
Terenzini — Yea
Till — Yea
Toleno — Yea
Toll — Yea
Trieber — Yea
Troiano — Yea
Viens — Yea
Webb — Yea
Wright — Yea
Yantachka — Yea
Young — Yea
Ancel — Yea
Beyor — Yea
Botzow — Yea
Buckholz — Yea
Chesnut-Tangerman — Yea
Devereux — Yea
Fagan — Yea
Frenier — Yea
Gannon — Yea
Gonzalez — Yea
Haas — Yea
Head — Yea
Hebert — Nay
Helm — Yea
Hill — Yea
Murphy — Yea
O'Sullivan — Not Voting
Pajala — Yea
Parent — Yea
Pugh — Yea
Read — Yea
Rosenquist — Yea
Savage — Yea
Sharpe — Not Voting
Turner — Yea
Walz — Yea
Willhoit — Yea
Van Wyck — Nay
Alice M. M Emmons Democrat Yea
Amy D Sheldon Democrat Yea
Barbara Rachelson Democrat Yea
Carol Ode Democrat Yea
Charles A Kimbell Democrat Yea
Daniel A Noyes Democrat Yea
David W Yacovone Democrat Yea
Emily J Long Democrat Yea
James W Masland Democrat Yea
Jill L Krowinski Democrat Yea
John L Bartholomew Democrat Yea
Kevin "Coach" B Christie Democrat Yea
Kristi C Morris Democrat Yea
Lori Houghton Democrat Yea
Martin J LaLonde Democrat Yea
Mary E. E Howard Democrat Yea
Michael Mrowicki Democrat Yea
Mollie S. S Burke Democrat Yea
Peter C Conlon Democrat Yea
Robin P Scheu Democrat Yea
Theresa A Wood Democrat Yea
Thomas S Stevens Democrat Yea
Timothy R. R Corcoran II Democrat Yea
Trevor J Squirrell Democrat Yea
Anne B. B Donahue Independent Yea
Laura H Sibilia Independent Yea
Brian J Cina Progressive/Democrat Yea
Beth M Quimby Republican Yea
Christopher P Mattos Republican Yea
Eileen G Dickinson Republican Yea
Francis M McFaun Republican Yea
Jim F Harrison Republican Yea
Mark A Higley Republican Yea
Martha A Feltus Republican Yea
Mary A. A Morrissey Republican Yea
Michael J Marcotte Republican Yea
Patricia A McCoy Republican Yea
Patrick "Pat" M Brennan Republican Yea
Robert W Norris Republican Yea
Scott L Beck Republican Yea
Thomas B Burditt Republican Yea
William P Canfield Republican Yea

Official roll call →

Roll Call, requested by Senator Branagan,  Failed -- Needed 16 of 30 to Pass -- Yeas = 12, Nays = 18

Failed 12 Yea · 18 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democrat 1200
Unaffiliated 71400
Democrat/Progressive 0100
Republican 4100
Total 121800
% of votes cast 40%60%0%0%
How each member voted (30)
Member Party Vote
McCormack — Nay
Pearson — Nay
White — Nay
Ashe — Nay
Balint — Nay
Benning — Yea
Bray — Nay
Brooks — Yea
Ingram — Nay
Kitchel — Nay
MacDonald — Yea
Nitka — Yea
Pollina — Nay
Sears — Nay
Sirotkin — Nay
Starr — Yea
Ayer — Nay
Campion — Nay
Flory — Yea
Mazza — Yea
Rodgers — Nay
Alison Clarkson Democrat Nay
Ann E Cummings Democrat Yea
Virginia "Ginny" V Lyons Democrat Nay
Philip E Baruth Democrat/Progressive Nay
Brian P Collamore Republican Nay
Carolyn W Branagan Republican Yea
David J Soucy Republican Yea
Randy D Brock Republican Yea
Richard A Westman Republican Yea

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Subjects

civil-rights
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Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors S. 281?
S. 281 is sponsored by Deborah Ingram.
What is the current status of S. 281?
This bill died with 2017-2018 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Senate” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
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