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Senate: Government Operations and Consumer Protection

January 19, 2022 @ 5:30 pm

Agenda:

The committee has scheduled a meeting to receive and consider the following legislative measures:

BLOCK I

 9 – 10 a.m.

The committee will receive testimony concerning:

Bill No. 34-0174 – A Resolution commending The Ivanna Eudora Kean High School on St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, on the occasion of the commemoration of its 50th Year Anniversary (1971) and acknowledging the many accomplishments of the administrators, teachers and students.

BLOCK II

10 – 11:30 a.m.

The committee will receive testimony concerning:

Bill No. 34-0157 – A Resolution honoring and commending Gloria H. Canegata Waterman for her outstanding years of service to the Virgin Islands Community as an educator and public servant through various organizations.

BLOCK III

11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

The committee will receive testimony concerning:

Bill No. 34-0153 – An Act establishing the Sixth Constitutional Convention of the Virgin Islands and providing for an appropriation to cover convention-related expenses.

LUNCH: 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.

BLOCK IV

3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

The committee will receive testimony on:

Bill No. 34-0182 – An Act amending Title 31, Virgin Islands Code, chapter 1, section 4, relating to the naming of real and personal property of the Government of the Virgin Islands after persons, to exempt the University of the Virgin Islands from the requirement of obtaining legislative approval before naming any property of the University of the Virgin Islands.

BLOCK V

4:30 – 5:30 p.m.

The committee will vote on:

Bill No. 34-0146 – An Act acknowledging and commemorating the memory of Mary Thomas, Axeline Salomon, Mathilde Mcbean, Susanna Abramson and other estate laborers before, during, and after the Labor Uprising of 1878 (“Firebun”) and their courageous pursuit of human rights, freedom from serfdom variant and improvement of labor conditions in the former Danish West Indies, and condemning the excessive, cruel and unjust punishment meted out to the laborers by the Danish Government.

Finally, the committee will consider and vote on:

Bill No. 34-0090 – An Act amending Title 3, Virgin Islands Code, chapter 25, subchapter V, section 570, relating to the Career Incentive Program for peace officers to extend the program to all peace officers identified in Title 5, V.I.C., section 3561(a).

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Date:
January 19, 2022
Time:
5:30 pm
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Venue

Earle B. Ottley Legislative Hall
St. Thomas, + Google Map