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By Guy Page
Non-cooperation with federal immigration authorities is the goal of two bills under consideration this week by committees of the Vermont Legislature.
Public access to most committee meetings will be available via livestream.
The House Judiciary Committee will discuss H. 511, concerning the admittance of federal immigration authorities into schools, on Wednesday, April 30.
The sole sponsor of the bill is freshman William Greer (D-Bennington). It would “require schools in Vermont to adopt a policy that will restrict the admittance of federal immigration authorities into nonpublic areas of the school without presenting a judicial warrant.”
According to the ACLU, “ICE typically uses an ‘administrative’ warrant when they are conducting enforcement actions, but only a judicial warrant can mandate their entry into private property. [Schools are deemed private property because they are not open to the public.] A judicial warrant is one that is issued by a court, signed by a judge, based upon a finding of probable cause, and specifically names the location and date range that a search is allowed. If an ICE agent presents an administrative warrant signed and issued by an immigration officer, you have the right to refuse entry.”
The Senate Committee on Judiciary will consider S. 148, sponsored by Sen. Tanya Vyhovsky (D/P Chittenden), concerning expanding good samaritan protections concerning immigration, with witness testimony and mark-up planned for Wednesday, April 30, and Friday, May 2. The bill would “prohibit Vermont law enforcement agencies, officers, and persons acting on the behalf of a Vermont law enforcement agency to expend any resources to assist federal immigration authorities with civil or criminal immigration investigations or proceedings.”
The House Committee on Judiciary will discuss and potentially vote on J.R.S. 15, a joint resolution supporting Vermont’s transgender and non-binary community, on Tuesday, April 29.
Tougher energy codes – House Energy and Digital Infrastructure will dedicate time on Tuesday-Thursday to discuss H. 181, boosting Residential (RBES) and Commercial (CBES) Building Energy Standards, AKA ‘energy codes.’
Sponsored by Rep. Scott Campbell (D-St. Johnsbury), the bill claims compliance is only 54 percent for RBES and 87% for CBES, with both rates declining. Both codes are scheduled to become more stringent with the goal of “net zero ready” by 2030.
The bill would require the State to create an energy savings yardstick to determine energy code compliance. H.181 also would require utilities and state agencies claiming energy savings to develop a methodology for calculating and reporting greenhouse gas reductions annually.
Also, H.181 would reduce from $10,000 to $2000 the size of a home improvement job (labor, materials) for which a contractor must register with the Office of Professional Regulation. The bill would drop by 80% the cost threshold set by a recent law aimed at reducing home improvement fraud.
Packaging materials crackdown – Senate Natural Resources and Energy will consider S. 139, requiring the State to conduct a needs assessment for managing discarded or disposed packaging materials, and would also prohibit the chemical conversion of plastic in Vermont. The bill is sponsored by Sen. Anne Watson (D-Washington), the committee chair.
Battery recycling, fuel delivery restrictions – The committee also will review H. 319, with a possible May 2 vote. The ‘miscellaneous’ energy bill introduced by Rep. Amy Sheldon (D-Middlebury) would:
- Extend by a year the deadline for a state plan to recycle or dispose of EV and energy storage batteries, battery disposal assessment.
- Bans fuel deliveries to tanks without valid permits.
- Amends current state law on flood safety, river corridor mapping, wetland management, dam emergency operations, and resilience, all to prepare for climate change impacts.
Bee protection, Ag runoff – the House Committee on Agriculture, Food Resiliency, and Forestry will review a report on Best Management Practices for the Use of Neonic Seeds and Pesticides.
On Tuesday, April 29, House Ag will hold a joint hearing with House Environment on S. 124, aimed at regulating concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and their environmental impact. This bill addresses growing concerns over water pollution and public health involving large-scale livestock farming. House Agriculture will continue discussion on S. 124 on Wednesday, April 30, and Friday, May 2.
Also, S. 45, sponsored by Sen. Sam Douglass (R-Orleans) concerning protection from nuisance suits for agricultural activities, is slated for discussion on Wednesday – Thursday with invited testimony from a dairy farmer and farmer respectively. The committee will also receive an Ag Innovation Board Report on Thursday.
House Commerce and Economic Development will review and possibly vote on S.127, a housing bill with funding for rental housing development, manufactured home improvement and repair, capital funding for sewer and water, and other supports for housing.
Several other significant bills are on committee agendas:
The House Committee on Corrections and Institutions will discuss H. 32, concerning treatment for opioid use disorder in correctional facilities, and H. 494, concerning capital construction and State bonding, throughout the week.
The House Committee on General and Housing will hear testimony on H. 348, concerning protecting workers from extreme temperatures in the workplace, on Tuesday, April 29.
Education finance and governance will be central to discussions in the Senate Committees on Education and Finance, both dedicating significant time to H. 454, concerning transforming Vermont’s education governance, quality, and finance systems, throughout the week.
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Good luck with that law, but , federal law supersedes law and: Shortly after President Donald Trump took office, his administration eliminated a Department of Homeland Security policy that previously limited where federal immigration arrests and other enforcement actions can take place.
The Department of Homeland Security’s new directive “rescinds the Biden administration’s 2021 guidelines for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that thwart law enforcement in or near so-called ‘sensitive’ areas,” the agency said in a statement. “Sensitive,” or protected, areas under the now-revoked Biden administration guidance include schools, hospitals, churches, places where children gather, and domestic violence shelters, among others. The protected areas policy isn’t new and was in place during Trump’s first administration. Biden’s guidance just expanded the areas protected under the policy.
This new guidance revoking this policy prompted questions from people online, including whether ICE agents can now raid schools, churches and hospitals.
Exactly! If the parents get arrested they need to take the children! The Democrats were supposedly all about keeping families together!🙄🙄🙄It’s time for an end to this illegal Sanctuary State Crap! I want a refund on my State Tax Money for every penny spent on these people and all these ignorant law suits!
Schools considered “private” even though Vermonters are bled dry paying for them?
And I have to ask, just why should schools be considered some kind of sanctuary from prosecuting our immigration laws. Should bank robbers or car thieves or deer poachers also qualify for such protections in a public school? Just asking.
Schools are private property????? Could we have the name of the owner of this property????? The cave monkeys have a strange way of stealing public property and claiming themselves as the owner. Next issue fuel tanks. My fuel tank is my private property and it does not belong to the Vermont corporate state. The condition of my fuel oil tank is my responsibility and not the fuel companies. This is another way of taking over you private house and dictating how you handle your private affairs. These crooks need to be kicked out of office as soon as posable. No one will be safe until you get rid of these idiots.
What did you like more about the fuel tanks, the lack of specificity, or the massive amount of redactions, all these bills or whatever they are , other then the batteries, since the EV mandates are running course now and batteries don’t last forever, I just feel like we’re letting the tail wag the dog, and from there the process begins to shake all the nonsense out, which all of it is.
When exactly did public schools in Vermont get deemed Private Property? That’s ridiculous! I don’t believe it’s true! Why are we paying taxes on Private Property?
Federal Laws are Federal laws,
Any eleceted official that will not support or defend these laws, well they need to be sitting behind bars and then removed from office !!
Check this out: A boots on the ground report visited this location yesterday in Lowell, MA. It showed this property is still operational and listed as “temporarily closed” on it’s website. The reporter was making his way around Massachusetts proclaimed “sanctuary cities” in and around Boston. Who is paying for accomadating border crashers while Americans are going broke and homeless? For those who think this is just a Massachusetts problem – think again. Lowell is near the NH border and within a couple hours of Vermont – moving and shifting (human trafficking) to initiate chaos, drain our resources, and fill the pockets of NGOs, non-profiteers, and all other co-conspirators. Pertinent and factual information below for your consumption – try not to puke in your shoes. Free hots, a hotel room, laundry services, and God knows what else is provided to those who haven’t earned any right to have any of it – just walked right in and got it all provided for free.
“UMass Lowell The Inn & Conference Center, Lowell, MA features over 200 seasonal hotel rooms, 31 year-round Inn-style rooms, a full-service restaurant & lounge, and over 15,000 square feet of flexible meeting and event space including outdoor patios. Our ballroom is one of the largest in the surrounding area, and is customizable to accommodate up to 500 guests.” https://www.hospitalityonline.com/umass-lowell-inn
Statement by Julie Chen, November 14, 2023: “As you know, the ICC has been under consideration by Gov. Healey’s administration as a temporary solution for the emergency shelter needs of homeless and migrant families. Discussions have been ongoing among UMass Lowell, the governor’s team and the UMass Building Authority.” Final details still need to be determined, but the Commonwealth has proposed to the Building Authority a one-year $4 million commitment, with a potential one-year extension (*it is now April 2025), primarily covering the university’s obligation for principal and interest payments for the property. The administration will also cover, through its service provider, other related costs, e.g. utilities, maintenance, trash, laundry, etc. The university will incur no costs from the state’s emergency housing plans. This potential agreement has been integrated into the university’s current fiscal year’s budget planning. On Monday, Lt. Gov. Driscoll hosted a call with representatives from the state delegation and city officials to discuss the state providing resources to aid in the arrival of the families, whom we anticipate will begin to move into the ICC sometime in the month of December.”
https://www.uml.edu/myuml/submissions/2023/2023-11-14-10-43-57-inn-and-conference-center-update.aspx
Who is Julie Chen: “Julie Chen is an American educator and chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is the University’s fourth chancellor, the second woman, and first openly gay leader to fill the role. She’s the first LGBTQ+ Chancellor in the UMass System. She is considered a New England expert in nanotechnology.” Nanotechnology? The enemy is not at the gates, it crashed right through and set up shop right in our backyards.
It’s time to stand up and tell people that come up with these stupid ideas that they need to step down or step back. If schools were private property then taxpayers would not be funding them. There is no such protection for illegals and there never will be because it is against the Constitution and breaks Federal Law which clearly states that of aid an illegal in any way it is punishable by Federal Law with a prison sentence of 10 years! There is no such thing as Sanctuary Cities either! That’s like coining the the phrase “Global Warming “, there is no such thing!!!
Keep ice out of schools, so illegals get free ride.
Keep police out of schools so drug deals can be done,
Keep science out of schools to propagate lies.
Keep Jesus out of schools so we don’t learn about, forgiveness, love and wisdom. Everything is acceptable, but for Jesus.
Keep porn and sex in schools so our kids confuse lust with love.
Keep cancel culture in schools so we get compliance and mind control.
Keep propaganda in schools so children are depressed, confused and prideful, thinking they know everything.
Keep drugging our children with all sorts psychotic drugs which have no scientific basis for use.
Keep crappy food for our most precious.
Our schools in Vermont are definitely not a safe environment, we could do better.
And yeah, our most pressing issue is ice? Just goes to show how far we have fallen.
In faairness, neither Chriistianity nor any other religion should be taught in public schools.
Here is a video foreshadowing things to come/are present in Vermont.
They have changed our Vermont constitution, to be used against parents, by teachers and government officials to do medical procedures against the wishes of the children’s parents, this is not new (vaccines) but is being developed further. While we don’t have any real facts from this video, nor do we any sense know that it’s not staged, but interesting it is. If it’s not real, it’s also perhaps up for an acting award for realism.
https://choiceclips.whatfinger.com/2025/04/28/family-services-shows-up-to-take-a-nursing-baby-but-dad-isnt-having-it/
Mom’s and Dad’s rock. Government schools, not so much.
Here is yet another classic example of people moving to Vermont, to run our state, in this case before they even complete their education here. Vermont is king of two things lately, drug/alcohol abuse and astro turf.
Let’s have real grass roots, astro turf is so passe.
I moved here to live a quiet peaceful life in my husband’s Father’s State. You can definitely tell that most of what happens in Montpelier is because of transplants! Maybe they should go back where they came from and destroy their own States! At least I live in Essex County where the sane Vermonters are!
Yea, wtf is that?
I second all of the above!!! Get em outta here! Go back to the rock from which you crawled out from.
With so many pressing issues in this state…why oh why is time being wasted on this baloney. Vermont is the laughing stock of this nation between this kind of crap and Bernie!!!
What is Greer’s reason for sponsoring this bill?
The more Vermont pokes and prods and sticks its tongue out at the federal immigration bear, the more likely we are to draw attention to our state’s illegal immigration policies. The apprehension of eight illegals in Berkshire resulted from at least one of them running when stopped by the Border Patrol on a citizen complaint of two men with backpacks coming out of the woods near the border. He ran into the barn with the BP in hot pursuit. The BP ordinarily doesn’t raid farms yet because they are focused on dangerous aliens, but they can.