As of this week, the Vermont House of Representatives has passed the following bills, according to the Campaign for Vermont:

• H.10 – permitted candidate expenditures
  • Allows campaign funds to be used for the care of dependent family members of the candidate
• H.18 –  sexual exploitation of children
• H.20 –  pretrial risk assessments and pretrial services
• H.46 – miscellaneous provisions of mental health law
• H.87 – establishing a classification system for criminal offenses
• H.88 – certification of agricultural use for purposes of the use value appraisal program
• H.89 – limiting liability for agritourism
  • Protects farmers from liability related injury or death from being near or around farm animals or equipment
  • Requires signage near the entrance of facilities where agritourism takes place
  • Requires participants in agritourism to sign a waiver
• H.101 – the implementation of 2018 Acts and Resolves No. 173 by providing grant funding to build systems-driven, sustainable literacy support for all students with measurable outcomes
• H.104 – considerations in facilitating the interstate practice of health care professionals using telehealth
• H.106 – equitable access to a high-quality education through community schools
• H.108 – Vermont standards for issuing a Clean Water Act section 401 certification
• H.122 –  boards and commissions
• H.127 – approval of amendments to the charter of the Town of Barre
• H.128 – limiting criminal defenses based on victim identity
• H.133 – emergency relief from abuse orders and relinquishment of firearms
  • Allows law enforcement to remove firearms from the possession of a defendant in the event that a relief from abuse order is issued
• H.135 – the State Ethics Commission
  • Moves required disclosures for executive officers and commission members from every two year to every year.
  • Staggers terms on the Ethics Commission so that no more than two seats expire in a given year.
  • Allows the Executive Director to hire staff deemed necessary by the Commission.
  • Limits who can request advisory opinions to just those persons covered by the code of ethics in order to avoid misuse.
  • Prepares the Commission to introduce an official state code of ethics next year.
• H.145 – amending the standards for law enforcement use of force
• H.149 – modernizing statutes related to the Vermont National Guard
• H.151 –  vital records, mausoleums and columbaria, and emergency health orders
• H.152 – education property tax
  • Projects average homestead property tax rate at $1.523 (about a 1% decrease from current year)
  • Projects average homestead income tax rate at 2.5% (even with current year)
  • Sets statewide non-homestead property tax at $1.612 (about a 1% decrease from current year)
• H.153 – Medicaid reimbursement rates for home- and community-based service providers
• H.154 – the failure of municipal officers to accept office
• H.159 – community and economic development and workforce revitalization
  • Creates Better Places program for community green spaces that can attract economic development
  • Establishes a trade representative in Canada
  • Increases state’s tourism marketing budget by $1.5M
• H.171 –  the governance and financing of Vermont’s child care system
• H.177 – approval of an amendment to the charter of the City of Montpelier
• H.183 – sexual violence
• H.195 – use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement in cases involving sexual exploitation of children
• H.199 – validating legal instruments used in connection with the conveyance of real estate
• H.210 – addressing disparities and promoting equity in the health care system
• H.218 – the sale of unpasteurized raw milk
• H.289 – professions and occupations regulated by the Office of Professional Regulation
• H.313 – miscellaneous amendments to alcoholic beverage laws
• H.315 – COVID-19 relief
  • “Prefunds” the state employees pension and other post-employment funds with an additional $20M.
  • Re-allocates $15M in unallocated reserves for school air quality measures.
  • Creates $10M in business grants administered by the Agency of Commerce and Community Development.
  • Gives the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board an additional $10M to combat homelessness.
  • Bolsters mental health services with an additional $5.3M.
  • Offers New Americans, refugees, and immigrants $700k in translation, telehealth, Covid-19 testing, and vaccination programs.
  • Appropriates an additional $1.3M for families in the Reach Up program.
  • Adds an additional $1.4M in funding for the Vermont Food Bank.
  • Puts an additional $2.2M towards the Covid-response line extension program and customer assistance programs for broadband.
  • Other various program enhancements related to pandemic response totaling $13.3M.
• H.337 – the printing and distribution of State publications
• H.338 – reapportionment proposal deadlines
• H.360 – accelerated community broadband deployment
  • Directs $200M in federal funds towards fiber broadband buildout
  • Creates new oversight board to direct funds
  • Establishes workforce training program for fiber infrastructure
• H.366 – 2021 technical corrections
• H.420 – miscellaneous agricultural subjects
• H.421 – animal cruelty investigation response and training
• H.426 – addressing the needs and conditions of public school facilities in the State
  • Asks the Secretary of Education to produce recommendations for financing school construction and renovation
  • Authorizes $2.5M for the initial scoping of some projects and upgrades related to Covid
  • Creates a new temporary position in the Agency of Education to assist with construction projects
• H.428 – hate-motivated crimes and misconduct
• H.430 – expanding eligibility for Dr. Dynosaur to all income-eligible children and pregnant individuals regardless of immigration status
• H.431 – miscellaneous energy subjects
• H.433 – the Transportation Program and miscellaneous changes to laws related to transportation
• H.434 – establishing the Agricultural Innovation Board
  • Creates a board responsible for agricultural practices
  • Moves some responsibilities of the Secretary of Agriculture, Food and Markets to this new board
• H.435 – miscellaneous Department of Corrections-related amendments
• H.436 – miscellaneous changes to Vermont’s tax laws

As of this week, these bills have passed both the House and the Senate:

• S.14 –  deed restrictions and housing density
• H.138 – fiscal year 2021 budget adjustments
• S.9 –  extending certain workers’ compensation amendments related to COVID-19
  • Extends worker compensation to employees who contract Covid-19
  • Makes frontline workers families eligible to compensation in the event of death
• H.48 – authorizing alternative procedures for 2021 annual municipal meetings in response to COVID-19
• H.81 – statewide public school employee health benefits
• S.110 – extending eligibility for Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation