Committee on Rules & Judiciary

The Committee on Rules and the Judiciary has scheduled a meeting to consider the following:

Block I

Nomination

Diane E. Brooks, Virgin Islands Conservation District

Block II

Bill No. 34-0267         An Act amending the Virgin Islands Code, title 3, chapter 18, section 302 relating the duties of the Department of Sports, Parks and Recreation to include the duty to develop neighborhood parks or recreation areas primarily designed to provide facilities for team, recreational or individual sports; amending title 3, chapter 22 section 401 to direct the Department to identify, supervise, administer, manage, regulate and control all sites within the Territorial Parks System; amending title 32, chapter 2 to establish the Division of Territorial Parks and Protected Areas within the Department of Planning and Natural Resources to establish and maintain a Territorial Parks System; amending title 33, chapter 111 to establish in the Treasury of the Virgin Islands The Territorial Parks System Revolving Fund and the Recreational Parks Revolving Fund; repealing title 3, section 308, title 32, chapter 4; and for other related purposes

Bill No. 34-0268         An Act amending title 32 Virgin Islands Code, chapter 2A, section 32 relating to the Territorial Park Board of Trustees, to increase the membership of the Board, to authorize the Board to appoint two members, to limit service on the Board to two consecutive terms; and providing for other related purposes

Invited Testifiers

The Honorable Jean-Pierre L. Oriol, Commissioner, Department of Planning & Natural Resources

The Honorable Calvert A. White, Commissioner, Department of Sports, Parks, and Recreation

The Honorable Vincent Richards, Deputy Commissioner, Department of Property & Procurement

Block III

Bill No. 34-0266         An act amending title 18, chapter 5, section 94a of the Virgin Islands Code relating to early voting, to set the time for early voting; amending chapter 25, sections 661, 662 and 664, relating to absentee voting, to provide for all persons eligible to vote in elections in the Virgin Islands to be entitled to vote in any election by absentee ballot

Invited Testifier

Caroline Fawkes, Virgin Islands Supervisor of Election

Block IV

Bill No. 34-0167         An Act amending Act No. 8473, section 1, subsection (q)(3) relating to a $2,175,000 appropriation to the Department of Sports, Parks and Recreation to provide for a grant of that sum to the Twin City Cricket Association for the development of the Department of Sports, Parks and Recreation St. Croix Cricket Field and providing for other related purposes

Bill No. 34-0212         An Act amending title 28, chapter 29, section 660 of the Virgin Islands Code to include additional requirements for the notice and publication of lists of abandoned property

Bill No. 34-0230         An Act amending title 18 Virgin Islands Code, chapter 5, section 110, relating to registration of electors to require the Supervisor of Elections to compile an active vs. inactive voter’s list within 90 days after each General Election starting with the General Election in 2022

Bill No. 34-0255         An Act repealing and re-enacting title 22 Virgin Islands Code sections 1443 and 1446 to implement revisions that were made to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Credit for Reinsurance Model Law

Bill No. 34-0254         An Act approving the Lease Agreement between the Government of the Virgin Islands, acting through the Commissioner of the Department of Property and Procurement and Liberty Mobile USVI, Inc. for the leasing of an improved portion of Parcel No. 3C-C-1 Estate Fortuna, No. 8 West End Quarter, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands consisting of approximately 2,000 US square feet or 0.046 US acres of Land.

Bill No. 34-0274         An Act approving the Lease Agreement between the Government of the Virgin Islands, acting through its Commissioner of the Department of Property and Procurement, and A-9 Trucking Enterprises, Inc. d/b/a N2N Water Supply for Parcel No. 1-20- 1, Estate Bovoni, Nos. 1 and 2, Frenchman’s Bay Quarter, on the island of St. Thomas for the purpose of operating a water delivery, trucking, heavy equipment business, a repair garage, and for other related purposes.

 Bill No. 34-0276         An Act approving the Lease Agreement between the Government of the Virgin Islands, acting through its Commissioner of the Department of Property and Procurement, and Liberty Mobile USVI, Inc., for Parcel No. 6-4-1 Estate Carolina, No. 1 Bay Quarter, St. John, Virgin Islands to develop, construct, operate, maintain, repair, replace and upgrade a wireless communication facility and for other related purposes