Legislative Reports Archive
Each Friday during the legislative session VLCT Advocacy publishes a Weekly Legislative Report and archives it here for the duration of the biennium. PDF files of previous legislative sessions are avaialble by contacting VLCT Advocacy.
Legislative Reports Archive
February 26, 2021—Legislators in several committees are currently focused on programs they can initiate or expand to help cities, towns, and villages rebuild their local, vibrant economies as deep winter turns the corner and the COVID-19 pandemic’s... Read more [1]
February 19, 2021—Your Hometown in a COVID World. Happily or not, members of Vermont’s General Assembly have now settled in to the second remotely-conducted legislative session. In an ordinary year, we would by now have introduced ourselves – the... Read more [2]
February 12, 2021. The Agency of Transportation has proposed an increase in Town Highway Aid programs of $21.9 million: $12.7 million to Town Highway Structures and $15.3 million to Class 2 Highway Aid. The increase is due to funding received from... Read more [3]
February 5, 2021. This session, bills that would address equity, inclusion, social justice, and rooting out systemic racism are already in several committees or are expected to be proposed ahead of the deadline for introduction of bills, which is... Read more [4]
January 29, 2021. Governor Phil Scott delivered his budget address to the legislature on Tuesday afternoon. Immediately thereafter, secretaries and commissioners decamped to various legislative committee rooms to provide the details and context for... Read more [5]
January 22, 2021. At its virtual meeting on Thursday, the VLCT Board discussed the Tax Structure Commission Report along with two bills currently before the legislature: S.25 (cannabis) and S.30 (possession of guns in child care facilities,... Read more [6]
January 15, 2021. As they had promised, the legislature this week passed H.48, the highly anticipated bill that enables municipalities to adjust how and when to conduct this year’s annual meetings.
Click the link below to read the entire legislative... Read more [7]
Click the link below to read the entire legislative... Read more [7]
January 8, 2021. On Wednesday, legislators in Vermont were sworn in, in a multi-party collaborative process that could not be further removed from the acrimony and violence that consumed our nation’s Capitol on the same day. On Thursday, Governor... Read more [8]
December 18, 2020. The pandemic-centered general election is way behind us. In Vermont, there was no controversy surrounding re-election of Governor Scott, who garnered 68.8 percent of the vote, a significant mandate. That is a good thing as he and... Read more [9]
October 9, 2020. The Vermont Legislature finally adjourned on the evening of Friday, September 25. Never before has a session lasted anywhere near this long. This time, “adjourned” means finished. In July, when the legislature recessed, any bills... Read more [10]
July 22, 2020 – Late on Friday night, June 26, the legislature recessed for six weeks. They did so after appropriating $750,777,119 in Coronavirus Relief Fund monies for a variety of needs that includes local governmental operations. The legislature... Read more [11]