35th Legislature of the Virgin Islands July 15 – 19, 2024
Monday, July 15, 2024
10 a.m.
Committee on Disaster Recovery, Infrastructure and Planning
Earle B. Ottley Legislative Chambers, on St. Thomas
The committee will meet to consider the following:
BLOCK I
Agenda:
The territory’s progress with respect to ongoing and planned disaster-recovery projects, goals and strategies as well as a status update on the “Super-PMO”/bundling initiative
BLOCK II
The committee will meet to receive testimony with respect to the status of the development of the territory’s Comprehensive Land and Water Use Plan.
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
9 a.m.
Committee on Disaster Recovery, Infrastructure and Planning
Earle B. Ottley Legislative Chambers, on St. Thomas
The committee will meet to receive testimony on the proposed Fiscal Year 2025 Executive Budget for the Government of the Virgin Islands of the United States
9 a.m. — Department of Human Services
Averil George, Commissioner
12:30 p.m. — Office of the Territorial Public Defender
Julie Smith Todman Esq., Interim Chief Public Defender
2:30 p.m. — Labor Management Committee
Pierina Jacobs-Feldman, Chairperson
Public Employees Relations Board
Yirah Tutein, Executive Director
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
9 a.m.
Committee on Budget, Appropriations and Finance
Earle B. Ottley Legislative Chambers on St. Thomas
The committee will meet to receive testimony on the proposed Fiscal Year 2025 Executive Budget for the Government of the Virgin Islands of the United States.
9 a.m. — WTJX – CHANNEL 12
Tanya-Marie Singh, CEO
12:30 p.m. — Virgin Islands Lottery
Raymond Williams, Executive Director
2:30 p.m. — Casino Control Commission
Marvin Pickering, Chairman and CEO
Thursday, July 18, 2024
9 a.m.
Committee on Rules and Judiciary
Frits E. Lawaetz Legislative Conference Room, St. Croix
The committee on Rules and Judiciary has scheduled a meeting to consider the following nominations, bills and resolutions:
BLOCK I
Nominations:
Governor’s Nomination of Magistrate Ernest E. Morris, Jr., Nominee, Superior Court of the Virgin Islands – District of St. Croix
BLOCK II
Governor’s Nomination of Julian Penn, Nominee, Virgin Islands Taxicab Commission – District of St. Thomas
BLOCK III
Governor’s Nomination of Harith Wickrema, Nominee, Virgin Islands Conservation District – District of St. John
BLOCK IV
Bill No. 35-0227 — An Act amending Title 3, Virgin Islands Code, chapter 37 to enact the Virgin Islands Commission on Ethics and Conflicts of Interest.
Bill No. 35-0228 — An Act amending Title 3, Virgin Islands Code, chapters 8 and 37 to enumerate the duties and functions of the Virgin Islands Commission on Ethics and Conflicts of Interest; appropriating $500,000 from the General Fund of the Treasury of the Government of the Virgin Islands to the Virgin Islands Commission on Ethics and Conflicts of Interest and for other related purposes.
Bill No. 35-0269 — An Act amending Title 2, Virgin Islands Code, chapter 1 by adding a section 10 providing a penalty for the commission of perjury in proceedings before the Legislature of the Virgin Islands.
BLOCK V
Bill No. 35-0229 — An Act honoring and commending the eighth elected Governor of the Virgin Islands, Kenneth Ezra Mapp, for his years of service to the people of the Virgin Islands and naming Route 75 on the island of St. Croix from Bassin Triangle intersection at Route 70, Estate Richmond and ending at Krausse’s Lagune the “Gov. Kenneth E. Mapp Highway;” appropriating $45,000 from the General Fund of the Treasury of the Government of the Virgin Islands to the Department of Public Works to implement the mandates of this Act to bestow the Virgin Islands Medal of Honor on Kenneth Ezra Mapp and for other related purposes.
BLOCK VI
Bill No. 35-0240 — An Act transferring the administration of the Government Insurance Fund from the Commissioner of the Virgin Islands Department of Finance to the Commissioner of Virgin Islands Department of Labor and amending various sections of Title 24, Virgin Islands Code, chapter 11 to facilitate better recovery for injury or disease that arises out of and in the course of employment in the Virgin Islands under the Workers’ Compensation Administration, and to ensure that workers entitled to Workers’ Compensation benefits receive medical coverage, rehabilitation services, and disability compensation without undue delay by merging the benefits and payment components of the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Program.
Bill No. 35-0262 — An Act appropriating $1,434,950 in Fiscal Year 2024 from the Community Facilities Trust Fund for the pre-construction soft cost funding to prepare the Charlotte Amalie harbor for dredging.
BLOCK VII
Bill No. 35-0195 — A Resolution honoring and commending Willard John for his many contributions to the youth and the culture of the Virgin Islands
Bill No. 35-0239 — An Act honoring and commending Claire Lorraine Brown Roker for her dedicated service to the Virgin Islands community by naming the visitors center at the Ann E. Abramson Marine Facility, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, the “Claire L. Roker Visitors Center.”
Bill No. 35-0242 — A Resolution honoring and commending Miguel Santos Jr., aka “DJ Poppy Pops,” for his contributions in the field of music and in radio broadcasting of musical events and local social musical events, and specifically contributing to the art of deejaying and the teaching of deejaying.
Friday, July 19, 2024
9 a.m.
Committee on Budget, Appropriations and Finance
Earle B. Ottley Legislative Hall, St. Thomas.
The committee has scheduled a hearing to receive testimony and to discuss the budget of various departments and agencies.
9 a.m. — The Judiciary of the U.S. Virgin Islands
Honorable Rhys S. Hodge, Chief Justice
12:30 p.m. — Office of the Inspector General
Delia Thomas, Inspector General
2:30 p.m. — Economic Development Authority
Wayne L. Biggs Jr., Chief Executive Officer
