The commission also plans to bring on interns from Vermont’s universities to support its work looking at instances where the state allowed or caused discrimination against Black and Indigenous people, people of French-Canadian descent, people with disabilities and others.
H.483 would prevent approved independent schools from having mandatory interviews, campus visits or academic entrance exams, and it would bar those schools from reviewing students’ academic histories or considering their ability to pay as part of the admissions process.
Governor Scott is now poised to encourage minors from other states to access the full range of reproductive health care services from Vermont providers by openly agreeing to sign H. 89 and S.37. Neither bill provides for parental involvement or consent.
A bill being considered in the House would create a task force to examine how Vermont might apologize and compensate for slavery — even though the state Constitution prohibited the practice.
The Vermont Senate on Tuesday passed H.230, a gun control bill featuring a 72-hour waiting period for firearms transfers and required gun storage.
One the one hand we have Vermont’s attorney general indicating that all is kosher. On the other we have the Defender General’s Office saying that almost nothing in H.230 would pass constitutional muster. Finally we have Legislative Counsel at “we just don’t know.”
Pitting the nation’s most popular governor supported by an outspoken citizenry vs. an ostensibly veto-proof legislative supermajority, the S.5 battle will be the veto session’s main event.
Democrats passing off responsibility to unelected commissions runs long and deep. Whenever possible, left-leaning legislators use majorities to create increasing costs through fiscal or regulatory burdens over which they can claim no control.
As an ongoing analysis of prison housing continues, ACLU of Vermont Advocacy Director Falko Schilling asked lawmakers to consider smaller, community-based facilities that, in some instances, would have less security measures in place.
I have been told we are to work things out by crossing over party lines. Not in this Vermont Legislature — not one amendment or Republican bill is brought up or gone through because the ruling parties are negative to the core, or against common sense free speech.
“I think we have to keep in mind that many of these kids are violent and can do extreme damage to physical property — but more importantly staff members and other kids. I encourage you to listen and call it what it really is,” Sen. Dick Sears said.
If you sign H.89 and S.37, Vermont will protect “any person” in any “act or omission” regarding any minor without the direct care of their parents. H.89 and S.37 will shield a gender-affirming system that will leave minors in harm’s way.