Bills introduced in the Vermont House would allow gun suppressors for hunting, prohibit female genital mutilation, oversee dangerous household products, prohibit plastic straws and takeout bags at restaurants, and define “milk.”
The House Education Committee on Thursday voted in favor of creating a work group to recommend new academic standards that recognize the history and contributions of ethnic and social groups and movements.
In this Statehouse Headliners, lawmakers are set to discuss retail pot in the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, while members of the House Human Services Committee will focus on a controversial “fundamental right” to abortion.
The outcry about automated annual car inspections has been so loud that House Transportation Committee sought this week to give car owners merciful relief from the unfeeling, all-seeing eye of the inspection station computer.
As lawmakers begin evaluating the pros and cons of carbon pricing methods in Vermont, the House Energy and Technology Committee appears to have invited testimony mostly from individuals and groups who support a carbon tax.
New bills introduced in the Vermont Senate would ban 3-D gun printing and animal testing, protect unrestricted abortion, create a public employee health care plan, and more.
This week, many committees are concluding the two-week overture of introductory briefings, and are beginning the first movement: review of bills referred to them by the full House for study and possible action.
Senate bill, S.25, “an act relating to the right to have an abortion,” says the bill is necessary due to concerns that the “recent shift in composition” on U.S. Supreme Court will invalidate the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.
Bills introduced this past week in the Vermont House include a ban on new fossil fuel infrastructure, a 10-cent charge for plastic grocery bags, a school merger slow-down, sports betting legalization, and an increase in the tobacco tax.
A group of lawmakers led by Rep. Heidi Scheuermann, R-Stowe, presented two bills this afternoon that would act as a moratorium on enforcement of Act 46 regarding forced school mergers.
The governors of Vermont and New Hampshire announced a twin-state family leave plan that would offer benefits to 18,500 state employees and give private businesses the option to join in at a cost affordable to employees.
Rep. Curt McCormack, an avid bike rider who doesn’t drive a car, has been named chair of the House Transportation Committee. He confirmed that his committee will try to develop more public transportation and other alternatives to cars, such as bike paths.