Green movement dominates public hearing on carbon-infrastructure ban
About 60 Vermonters met at the Statehouse on Tuesday evening to voice their support for banning new carbon-fuel infrastructure in Vermont.
Statehouse Headliners: House to consider Senate bill adding emissions test to annual car inspection
The House Transportation Committee Thursday will consider a Senate bill to expand the annual registered vehicle inspection to include inspection of emissions or on-board diagnostic systems for all vehicles up to 10 years old.
Top EMF professional calls for Vermont moratorium on untested 5G Wi-Fi technology
Dozens of activists and professionals crowded into Room 10 of the Statehouse on Thursday to call for a moratorium on the Vermont rollout of 5G internet technology.
‘The rise and decline of hate groups’ discussed at Senate Judiciary
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee spent part of their Thursday morning discussing “the rise and decline of hate groups” in Vermont and the United States, the topic listed on the day’s agenda.
More testimony on minimum wage says $15 is too high
The Housing and Military Affairs Committee continues to hear from business owners and advocates who say that a $15 minimum wage is simply unaffordable for their organizations.
House approves paid family leave, allows no opting out
House lawmakers last week passed the universal paid family leave bill by a 92-52 vote, shunning amendments that would have eased the impact on taxpayers and allowed Vermonters who can’t afford the program to opt out.
Statehouse Headliners: New bills cover net-zero building, health insurance coverage for transgender surgery
New bills would require insurance coverage for transgender operations, “affirmative consent” for sex, licensing of building contractors and net-zero emissions of new buildings by 2022.
Mixed testimonies continue to cast shadow over $15 minimum wage
A handful of experts appeared at the House Committee on General, Housing, and Military Affairs on Wednesday morning to weigh in on the proposal to bump the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
Senators told: Vermont ‘gonna fail miserably’ on its weatherization goals
While the the Vermont House has doubled the fuel tax to fund ongoing weatherization projects across the state, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources is figuring out what to do with all the money.
Statehouse Headliners: Marijuana ‘prevention tax’ could lead to lagging revenues
A marijuana “prevention tax” could mean lagging sales, insufficient revenue.
Statehouse Headliners: Weatherization already up by $850,000 this year, even without controversial fuel tax
Even before the Vermont House of Representatives voted this week to double the fuel tax to boost revenue for low-income weatherization, the House tax committee had already decided to raise next year’s weatherization revenue by $850,000.
House won’t allow alternative health insurance
On Thursday the House chamber voted in favor of H.524, the health insurance mandate, which in its current form does not have a financial penalty for not having insurance.