VISA update: Average tuition rates up 3.3% for elementary schools
Elementary school (grades K-6) tuition will be $16,020, up 3.3 percent over this year’s rate. Secondary school tuition will be $17,278, up 2.6 percent over this year’s rate.
Roll Call: House mandates conserving half of Vermont land from development
H.606, an act relating to community resilience and biodiversity protection, passed in the State House of Representatives on March 15, 2022, by a vote of 98-42.
Replacement gun control bill passes House without veto-proof majority
Now, S.4 faces a possible veto threat of its own. It passed the House by a 90-42 margin: 10 votes shy of the 100 needed to override a gubernatorial veto, should it occur.
Roll Call: House imposes ‘clean heat standard’
H.715, an act relating to the clean heat standard, passed in the State House of Representatives on March 16,2022, by a vote of 96-44.
Paul Dame: Team GOP got some wins on Dem-led redistricting map
Our team is still looking over the map, but we are already beginning to identify some brand new opportunities for Republican pick-ups that didn’t exist last time.
Vermont House, Senate pass bill calling for multiple amendments to FY 2022 budget
Federal COVID-19 relief funds and other factors have prompted Vermont lawmakers to propose a series of amendments to the state’s fiscal year 2022 budget that runs through June 30.
Letters to legislators: Letter to the House re: S.4 (S.30)
Dear legislators, it is now imperative that you sustain the Governor’s veto of S.4 (formerly S.30). Since 2013, a partisan “war” on lawful gun owning citizens has been waged in Montpelier. Please vote no to S.4 and S.30, the Veto Override Bill.
Gun bill now on House floor new threat to property rights, senator says
Stifled so far in their effort to override Gov. Phil Scott’s veto of S.30, this year’s gun control bill, the Vermont Senate Friday passed a replacement bill that one senator says is even less constitutional.
Roper: Legislators seek to avoid accountability for disastrous energy bill
The Legislature is authorizing that an unelected body design and implement a program that will have major economic consequences while having no idea what it will cost, how, or even if it can work.
Fact check: ‘Heat standard is good for homeowners and fuel sellers’
Even if homeowners enthusiastically embrace new, unproven heating systems and fuel sellers join the fight against climate change, the Clean Heat Standard will strafe one final group of Vermonters before its destruction is complete: taxpayers.
Vermont House GOP Caucus: Letting 16-year-olds vote ‘politically expedient’ for Democrats
“Apparently, Vermont Democrats only feel young voters are mature enough to make informed decisions when it might be politically expedient.”
Governor appoints John Kascenska to Vermont House of Representatives
Governor Phil Scott on Monday announced his appointment of John Kascenska, Ph.D., of Burke, to the Vermont House of Representatives, representing House District Calendonia-4. Kascenska replaces former Representative Patrick Seymour (R-Sutton) who recently resigned.