Commerce and Economic Development Committee

The House Committee on Commerce and Economic Development considers matters relating to workforce development and training programs, business development and formations, financial institutions, property and casualty, life, and captive insurance, securities, unemployment and workers’ compensation insurance, consumer protection, and other similar policies.

Career Technical Education (CTE) 

The House Committee on Commerce and Economic Development is reviewing the Career Technical Education (CTE) portion of the Governor's Education Transformation Proposal. The committee has met with many leaders of the centers, visited a Career Technical Center, and is reviewing Career Technical Education governance structures. [We have 17 different centers and 4 different governance structures in Vermont.] The committee met with Zoie Saunders, Secretary of the Agency of Education, and her CTE consultants. Ultimately, the Commerce Committee along with the Education Committee will be making recommendations for improving CTE in Vermont, including but not limited to recommendations relating to how many and what type of CTE governing entities are needed to support a high level of student learning, and the critical relationship between CTE's and Vermont's other workforce training programs.

Workforce

In the continuing efforts to reform the system of developing and retaining a world class workforce in Vermont, the Commerce Committee passed H.34 (An act relating to workforce leadership in Vermont), setting the vision for the Office of Workforce Development and Strategy and its Executive Director. We are continuing to work on setting up  Vermont to be a workforce leader and using the assets we have to make our state the best place to work in the nation.