Senate: Finance

Agenda

The committee will consider the following bills:

BLOCK I

9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Bill No. 34-0067 — An Act amending Title 33, subtitle I, part 1, chapter 3 of the Virgin Islands Code to increase the Hotel room tax by 2.5 percent andremit 5 percent of all monies collected to the Virgin Islands Government Employees Retirement System and for other purposes (Proposed by Sen. Dwayne M. Degraff)

Bill No. 34-0033 — An Act appropriating $2,100,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Public Works, in fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2021, for the purpose of expending $700,000 each in fiscal years, 2021, 2022 and 2023, to allow the Department of Public Works to contract for skilled engineering services for critically important capital projects for the Government of the Virgin Islands (Proposed by Sen. Marvin A. Blyden)

Bill No. 34-0039 — An Act amending Title 3, Virgin Islands Code, sections 706(c) and 766(c) relating to service retirement annuities to permit retired corrections officers to reenter government service and retain their service retirement annuities (Proposed by Sen. Franklin D. Johnson)

Bill No. 34-0039 — An Act amending Title 3, Virgin Islands Code, sections 706(c) and 766(c) relating to service retirement annuities to permit retired corrections officers to reenter government service and retain their service retirement annuities (Proposed by Sen. Franklin D. Johnson)

LUNCH – 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m.

BLOCK II

1 – 5 p.m.

Bill No. 34-0077 — An Act amending Act No. 8365, the Fiscal Year 2021 Executive Budget and Act No. 8348, the Legislature’s Fiscal Year 2021 Budget, to restore the 8% reduction in salaries to the employees of the Government of the Virgin Islands and for other related purposes (Proposed by Senators Kurt A. Vialet, Donna A. Frett-Gregory, Novelle E. Francis Jr., Janelle K. Sarauw, Milton E. Potter, Alma Francis-Heyliger and Franklin D. Johnson)

Bill No. 34-0071 — An Act amending Title 28 of the Virgin Islands Code by adding a new chapter 36 creating the Virgin Islands Timeshare Act (Proposed by Sen. Kurt A. Vialet)

Bill No. 34-0066 — An Act amending Title 33, Virgin Islands Code, chapter 89 subchapter III, section 2541 to allow the Lieutenant Governor to collect unpaid property taxes and unpaid public sewer fees from the sale of delinquent taxpayer’s real property (Proposed by Sen. Dwayne M. Degraff)