A bill to address concerns about public tuition payments to religious independent schools appears not to have gained traction in the House Education Committee. After briefly examining the bill House Ed members seemed unenthusiastic about taking it up fully.
The clean heat standard would intentionally make every kind of home heating fuel more expensive — but we just don’t know how to calculate the increase, or what the total amount will be. It’s one of those common Democrat tactics where they have to pass the bill before they can find out what it does.
“The legislature needs to revisit the Global Warming Solutions Act and expand the narrow priority of the emissions reduction. Any representation that the language in the Climate Action Plan is fully supported by all the Climate Council members, I don’t think is accurate,” Smith said.
The ethics bill passed the House unanimously this week. On pensions, the House is now considering the pursuit of defined contribution plans for new hires. Workforce, housing, and economic development bills are all progressing towards final passage — but there are concerns around “poison pills.”
Democrats have concocted a “Fake Check” amendment which would allow the PUC to implement a sweeping and costly Clean Heat Standard without a roll call vote of the legislators. They think they can kill the accountable Check Back legislative vote and rally all Democrats to overturn a Scott veto.
Article 22 will have significant implications for women’s mental health issues as well as the rights of mothers and fathers. In many ways, Article 22 threatens a mother’s rights to carry children to term and give birth.
So there you have it. H.157 will undermine the Clean Heat Standard by reducing the number of workers available who have the expertise to install heat standard friendly heat pumps, solar water heaters and the like.
S.74, an act relating to modifications to Vermont’s patient choice at end of life laws (Donahue Amendment), failed in the State House of Representatives on April 13, 2022, by a vote of 41-98.
H.157 would create a fee-based registry for Vermont’s small contractors, based on the theory that home improvement fraud is a massive problem and consumers don’t have a good way to protect themselves.
The causes of addiction are many, and it is beyond government’s ability to reshape broken humans. But Vermont’s progressive “movement” has already created a perfect environment for increased drug addiction and related crime.
S.265, an act relating to expanding criminal threatening to include threats to third persons, passed in the State House of Representatives on April 12, 2022, by a vote of 89-32.
“This bill is bad enough on its merits that name-calling just serves as a distraction from the main issue. This bill removes the rights of parents to provide informed consent.”