Comprehensive listing of information about 2023-24 Vermont Representatives and Senators.

The Vermont Senate, under the President Pro Tem leadership of gun-control advocate Phil Baruth (D-Chittenden), is off to a fast start with gun control.

With about a third of the Vermont House of Representatives comprised of new members, a list of all members and their contact information might be helpful.

The universal mailed ballot shifts responsibility away from the voter, and also sends ballots to the wrong address, a sponsor of H23 says.

Krowinski “adamantly denied it was because of my Article 22 advocacy, but her assorted rationales, as I told her, ‘didn’t meet the straight face test,” Donahue said.

Saying hello via video to four new lawmakers, including three who have served previously.

Toss out misdemeanor cases, legalize switchblades, and designate golf courses as protected areas – these ideas and others are among newly introduced legislation in the Vermont House.

A Republican lawmaker had her say before the Vermont House of Representatives – over her objection – re-elected Jill Krowinski as Speaker.

With the opening of the 2023-24 Legislature still a day away, new bills already are rolling in.

Just a couple of months into legal cannabis sales, Vermont growers now want to cut out the retail ‘middle man’ and sell directly to customers. Farm stands, maybe?

Commenting on a bill blocking parental rights to stop a child from being prescribed puberty blockers, Sen. Phil Baruth says “I tend to be the sort of person to side with medical experts.”

Legal sports betting will get a serious look in the Vermont Legislature next year.

Presenters said Vermont has a shrinking window to take legislative action. They expressed concern about a vocal minority in the state that is doubtful or dismissive of climate change as a problem.

In 1994, when he began serving in the Vermont State House, “I could not have dreamt this day would come,” Rep. Bill Lippert said after Joe Biden signed into law a 50-state gay marriage law.

“If a majority wishes to demonize or inflict prejudicial retaliation against people of faith, or ban public readings of scripture from the Koran, Torah, or Bible, that would be a violation of basic First Amendment principles,” John Klar says.

All three Vermont members of Congress voted for a bill making gay marriage the law of the land and leaving religious groups and individuals open to legal and government action.

A new federal gay marriage law could wipe out the protections for Vermont churches and others opposed by conscience to gay marriage.

A leading advocate for the anti-slavery Constitutional amendment compares modern-day imprisonment with slavery.

Lawmakers on a key committee seem curiously unaware of their Dec. 1 deadline for ruling whether Vermont follows California and bans the sale of internal-combustion cars by 2035.

Through lawsuits and legislation, supporters of legal abortion, doctor-prescribed death, and prostitution are headed towards making Vermont a destination state.

Legalization of sports betting could raise $10 million in state revenue – but consumers could be harmed, a state study says.

A bill to make it easier to charge repeat retail thieves with a felony didn’t get out of the 2022 Vermont Legislature.

Students at all public and independent schools will eat free breakfast and lunch this coming school year, thanks to a bill passed this year by the Legislature. The $29 million to pay for it will come out of the Education Fund.

If reading this book won’t cure insomnia, nothing will.

States (like Vermont) where buying marijuana is legal are seeing higher concentrations of THC and more teens suffering from THC-induced mental illness, a new study shows.

A resolution co-sponsored by Rep. Peter Welch calls for “eliminating unnecessary governmental restrictions on the provision of, and access to, gender-affirming medical care and counseling for transgender and nonbinary adults, adolescents, and children.”  

The U.S. Supreme Court today struck down New York’s “may issue” firearms carry permit law as too restrictive. What will this decision mean for Vermont?

Opponents of safe injection sites say their effectiveness is unclear and are a ‘foot in the door’ for legalizing possession and sale of hard drugs.

Gov. Phil Scott vetoed 13 bills during the 2021-22 session. Nine stuck.

Ben & Jerry’s took out a full page ad in the May 25 Seven Days to criticize “social media attacks on legislators over a transgender rights bill.”

H96 creates a task force to develop “legislation to create one or more truth and reconciliation commissions to examine and begin the process of dismantling institutional, structural, and systemic discrimination in Vermont, both past and present.” 

The bill claims that leaving forests unmanaged would benefit wildlife habitat and slow climate change – but forest science shows the opposite is true.

Spending and Senate/House retirements – both unprecedented – are the hallmarks of the 2022 session of the Vermont Legislature.

Bills passed in the Senate this week remove legal barriers to getting high and create an advisory Youth Council.

H148 would eliminate the religious exemption for required immunizations prior to enrollment in a school or child-care facility.

A grab bag of economic development ideas has been tossed by the Vermont House to solons of the Vermont Senate.

Those voting yes believe increased levels of conflict between citizens and school board members and other public officials across the country, particularly in regard to Critical Race Theory (CRT) and controversial Covid policies, warrants increased protections for elected officials from threats of violence, above those of ordinary citizens.