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This Week’s Senate Calendar

32nd Legislature of the Virgin Islands

Senate Calendar Week Beginning June 12

 Monday, June 12

No committees will meet today.

Tuesday, June 13

10 a.m.

Committee on Health, Hospitals and Human Services

Frits E. Lawaetz Legislative Conference Room, St. Croix

Agenda

The committee has scheduled a meeting to receive testimony on the following bills:

Bill No. 32- 00064 – An Act amending Title 3, V.I.C., chapter 24, section 431, providing for a registry of the elderly and persons with disabilities living alone

Bill No. 32-0100 – An Act amending Title 27, V.I.C., chapter 1, subchapter II, section 39, to require doctors and physicians to disclose any financial ownership or interest in any medical laboratory within or outside the Virgin Islands and from referring patients to a laboratory in which they have a financial interest

Bill No. 32-0111 – An Act to amend Title 1, V.I.C., chapter 11 to establish September as Virgin Islands Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and to require an annual proclamation by the governor

Wednesday, June 14

TODAY’S SESSION CANCELED DUE TO FORCE MAIN BREAK UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

10 a.m.

Committee on Education, Youth and Recreation

Frits E. Lawaetz Legislative Conference Room, St. Croix

Agenda

The committee will conduct a hearing to consider the following bills:

Bill No. 32-0006 — An Act amending Title 17, V.I.C., chapter 5, section 41 to add marine biology as a mandatory course in the Virgin Islands school curriculum.

Bill No. 32-0014 – An Act amending Title 17, V.I.C., chapter 9, section 86, relating to school attendance, absenteeism and parental responsibility

Bill No. 32-0029—An Act providing for the implementation of single gender instruction in the Virgin Islands public schools

Bill No. 32-0072—An Act to require that CPR training be implemented as a mandatory course in the Virgin Islands Public School System

Thursday, June 15

2 p.m.

Committee on Economic Development and Agriculture

Earle B. Ottley Legislative Hall, St. Thomas

Agenda

The committee has scheduled testimony on the following bills:

Bill No. 32-0093 – An Act amending Title 32, V.I.C., chapter 11, relating to horse racing adding sections 306-313 to provide for anti-doping in the horse racing industry in the Virgin Islands and to amend certain sections of Title 32, V.I.C., chapter 21, Article XVI, regarding the allocations of funds received from the racino tax

Bill No. 32-0092 – An Act amending Title 32, V.I.C., chapter 11, relating to the establishment of a single Horse Racing Commission

Friday, June 16

10 a.m.

Committee on Homeland Security, Justice and Public Safety

Frits E. Lawaetz Legislative Conference Room, St. Croix

Agenda

The committee has scheduled a meeting to receive updates and initiatives, including hurricane preparedness plans for 2017 from the following departments:

Virgin Islands Fire Department

Association of Firefighters, Local 2125

V.I. Territorial Emergency Management Agency

Virgin Islands National Guard

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