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Legislative Action Alert

The legislative session is not over yet and one of the main impediments to adjournment is handling of negotiations for school employees’ health insurance. Negotiations between the House and Senate and the Governor have not yielded an agreement on school employee health insurance. Instead, House and Senate leaders intend to move forward with a proposal to take $13 million out of school district budgets and require school boards to continue to negotiate health insurance benefits this year only.

Legislative Action Alert

Legislative Action Alert

Tomorrow morning (Tuesday), the House is scheduled to take up H.509, the bill that establishes the property dollar yield, the income dollar yield, and non-residential property tax rate for education spending.

Legislative Action Alert

Legislative Action Alert

Virtually every legislator campaigned for office in 2016 with a promise of no new property tax increases. They seemed to understand that Vermont tax payers, whose property tax burden is the fourth highest in the nation, were played out. So what happened? The Senate passed an appropriations bill that transfers new obligations to the Education Fund, which will require increased property taxes to pay for them, both this year and in the future. Your legislators need to hear from you.

Legislative Action Alert

On Monday (April 24), our VLCT Legislative Alert asked you to contact your senators to oppose the Senate Appropriations proposal to move a portion of the Teachers’ Retirement from the General Fund and to the Education Fund where it would be paid in this and future years from increases in the education property tax.

Legislative Action Alert

Legislative Action Alert

Legislative Action Alert

H. 50 as amended and voted out of the House Energy and Telecommunications Committee is on the House Calendar for notice on Tuesday and representatives will most likely vote on it Wednesday (Feb. 22). http://legislature.vermont.gov/assets/Documents/2018/Docs/CALENDAR/hc170...