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Get tough on youthful offenders, ban paraquat, address truancy and recidivism
By Guy Page
The Vermont House today passed a bill, H.928, changing the uniform point system statute for fish and wildlife violations.
H.928 also would grant the Commissioner of Fish and Wildlife discretion to determine whether annual hunting licenses expire on December 31 of the year for which they were issued or 365 days after the date they were issued.
This bill also would grant the Department of Fish and Wildlife the ability to assess a fee for additional tags or permits that are not otherwise identified in statute.
Other bills passed recently by the House and now in Senate committees:
| H.928 | 3/24/2026 | technical corrections to fish and wildlife statutes | |
| H.817 | 3/24/2026 | mental health support and substance use disorder prevention in schools. This bill would establish a pilot peer-to-peer (student to student) mental health support program in 10 schools. | |
| H.583 | 3/20/2026 | clinical decision making. Would prohibit corporate takeovers of essential community health services and would “prohibit corporations from practicing medicine or otherwise interfering with health care providers’ professional judgment and clinical decision making.” | |
| H.642 | 3/20/2026 | youthful offender proceedings. Would allow courts to revoke youthful offender status in case of violent crime or threat to public safety. | |
| H.660 | 3/20/2026 | fiscal year 2027 Opioid Abatement Special Fund and Substance Misuse Prevention Special Fund appropriations | |
| H.537 | 3/20/2026 | the right to grow vegetable gardens in condo associations and other common interest communities. | |
| H.739 | 3/20/2026 | prohibiting the use and sale of the herbicide paraquat | |
| H.930 | 3/20/2026 | addressing and preventing chronic absenteeism. Makes parents/guardians responsible for truancy, requires state/school officials to implement and review annually a plan to address truancy. | |
| H.940 | 3/20/2026 | miscellaneous public utility subjects, including requiring the adoption of a new Telecommunications Plan every five years instead of three, and to abolish the Telecommunications and Connectivity Advisory Board. | |
| H.942 | 3/20/2026 | miscellaneous agricultural subjects. Makes water quality practices training for farmers optional instead of required, regulates non-sewage waste transportation, requires uniform price disclosures to food and commodities sold by some stores. | |
| H.294 | 3/20/2026 | telecommunications services and wages in correctional facilities. Ensures incarcerated individuals are provided communications services at no expense, guarantees they are paid federal minimum wage. | |
| H.410 | 3/20/2026 | the calculation of recidivism and other related criminology measures. Redefines how recidivism is calculated and establishes a graduated classification system to track recidivists. Establishes definitions, calculations, and classification systems to measure individuals who commit repeat violent offenses. | |
| H.171 | 3/19/2026 | criminal justice agency protocols for an officer-involved shooting. Attorney General shall prepare and submit a written report to the officer who is the subject of the investigation and the law enforcement agency that employs the officer. |
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Categories: State House Spotlight
H-930, as the parent of a former high school student that found in her school district classes boring, combined with the fact she had the highest score on the state testing exams. That the school district withhold those results from the parents until a teacher, became a whistle blower. That she was labeled a trouble maker. Sent to an alternative school for trouble youth. Where the head supervisor, told her she didn’t belong there, she was just much smarter than all the others.
Finally talked the school into a school choice program. Landed in an advance program, where the teacher tested her for acceptance. Scored so high she had her assist her in the class.
That girl/woman now is a top supervisor, where her bosses in an evaluation, told her she smarter than a Harvard graduate, self taught, without any higher education experience.
The school did blame the parents for years, we took responsibility for years, we finally fought back at the school, and won school choice…and that had made all the difference.
School choice should be the real focus! For all!