H.372 follows the model of the Montpelier city repeal of its prostitution ordinance. It does not specifically legalize prostitution or establish a legal framework for the prostitution trade. But it does repeal existing laws criminalizing voluntary sex work.
Vermont is losing many workers due to its second highest tax rate in the nation and being business “unfriendly” with ever-increasing taxes, regulations, permits and programs.
Committee Chair Sen. Jane Kitchel, D-Caledonia, told the presenters of the bill, Sens. Chris Bray, D-Addison, and Anne Watson, D-Washington, that she and others have “been the beneficiaries of a lot of communications — many, many communications — and phone calls.”
Last Friday, the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy met with Xusana Davis, Vermont’s executive director of racial equity, on how racial equity themes play into energy policy as they work through the Affordable Heat Act.
A new bill would require Vermont public school students to take a personal finance course to graduate high school. If the bill, H.228, passes, the mandate will go into effect July 1 and apply to all public high school students graduating during or after next school year.
The House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday began its review of House Bill 127, taking testimony from state officials involved in the logistical details.
There is no chance that this transition occurs quickly and efficiently due to the lack of a labor force. The old heart will be removed, but no surgeon is on call to put the new one in. The patient will die on the table — or more literally by freezing to death in their home one cold winter night.
More than a dozen House Republicans are looking to repeal the Global Warming Solutions Act and scrap the Vermont Climate Council.
Provided Gov. Scott vetoes the legislation, a coalition of Republicans, Democrats, Independents and Progressives will dig in at our Alamo and make one last stand to prevent this short sighted and poorly engineered legislation from becoming law.
“S.37 and H.89 propose to codify gender-affirming care as the only type of care for minors experiencing gender dysphoria and incongruence. Meanwhile countries in Europe are now reassessing and changing their standards of care due to negative impacts of exclusively gender-affirming care.”
Campaign for Vermont is calling on lawmakers to rethink their policy approach to reducing carbon emissions from home heating. There are a number of things that we could do to reduce or offset carbon emissions from home heating systems.
Earlier this month, John Lott, an economist, political commentator and gun rights advocate, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the history of past assault weapons bans in the United States.