The Vermont House Government Operations Committee yesterday voted 8-4 to send to the House floor a hefty pay raise, adjournment pay, and state employee-level health care benefits for the Legislature.
The Vermont Senate on Tuesday morning voted by the required two-thirds majority to override Gov. Phil Scott’s veto of S.5, the Affordable Heating Act.
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.
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.
The Vermont Republican State Committee on Saturday, April 22, voted almost unanimously to create an election subcommittee to investigate Vermont “election operations, procedures and integrity.”
S.151 would “allow a minor 12 years of age or older to consent to medical care for the prevention of a sexually transmitted infection,” which would further remove parents from direct involvement in the health and wellbeing of their children.
Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman on Thursday led a small group of Progressive legislators calling for national legislation to expand the U.S. Supreme Court by four seats.
What happens then is a toss-up, and will decide whether S.5 becomes law or just the latest in a string of failed forced carbon emissions reduction bills.
Lee Zeldin spoke to the Chittenden County Republicans at a dinner in South Burlington Thursday night. Beforehand, Vermont Daily Chronicle asked him, “what can Vermont do to become a more Republican state?”
The Vermont Senate on Thursday gave initial approval to a hefty pay and benefits increase for the Vermont Legislature. S.39 provides weekly salaries for all House and Senate members during the 18-20 week Legislative Session.
Gov. Phil Scott on Wednesday threatened to veto the Brattleboro charter change allowing 16-year-olds to vote in local elections.
Senate legislation that would likely reduce new construction of urban, single-family homes will get its first look in the House at the House General and Housing Committee.