The House introduced a retail marijuana bill on Friday while a similar Senate bill was being prepped for a committee vote. Neither bill would set taxes high enough to cover costs expected by the Marijuana Commission.
The House Human Services Committee on Thursday approved unrestricted abortion following a packed public hearing Wednesday at which many Vermonters decried late-term abortions as barbaric and inhumane.
After narrowly voting down the “Scheuermann Amendment” that would have given all schools facing mergers a one-year extension to comply with Act 46, House lawmakers on Thursday voted to allow some schools to get the extension.
Establishing a retail market for marijuana will lead to increased marketing, which will have an effect on Vermont youth consumption, Vermont Marijuana Commission Vice Chair Jake Perkinson said Tuesday.
The Vermont House of Representatives on Wednesday voted down a proposed amendment that would have allowed a one-year extension for forced school district mergers under Act 46.
Supporters of H.57, the unrestricted abortion bill, say it only establishes in statute Vermont’s “status quo” of unrestricted abortion. In the world of legal technicalities and constitutional law, this is sort of true.
S.16, sponsored by Sen. Tim Ashe, would protect vertebrate animals — including lab rats and mice — from being used for non-medical research. At the same time, H.57 would decree that throughout the entire pregnancy, “the fetus shall not have independent rights under Vermont law.”
New House bills would make hard drug possession a misdemeanor, ban teacher strikes, create universal primary care, join multi-state cap and trade, and more.
If the Vermont Senate Judiciary Committee approves S.54, creating a retail market for marijuana, Chair Dick Sears and his committee can’t say they weren’t warned about its deadly threat to Vermonters.
“The same First Amendment that allowed the civil rights movement to survive when it was in its infancy, that is the same First Amendment that protects the rights of even these people who express what we might consider to be culturally abhorrent terms.”
Next week, the House Human Services and Judiciary committees will hold a formal public hearing on H.57. The hearing is scheduled for 4:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6 at the Statehouse. All Vermonters are welcome to attend and testify.
The House Human Services Committee on Wednesday heard from speakers about H.57, an extreme abortion bill that would guarantee a “fundamental right” to abortion up to the moment of a child’s birth.