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by Sam Douglass
Cross-border tuition and further restrictions on tobacco are scheduled for Senate floor action today, Thursday March 26.
S.26: Legislation to Ban Synthetic Dyes in School Foods—Frozen on the Floor
On Friday of last week, S.26, a bill to prohibit dyes and other substances from school foods was ordered to lie by Sen. Virginia Lyons, Chair of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee. Lyons did not state a reason on the floor for the action and the cause isn’t evident from committee records. However, records from March 13 show that there has been some discussion referencing a gradual phasing out of these substances on a broader scale, but some schools are still worried that they may be unable to find product substitutes in the given timeline.
It is unclear whether action will be taken back up on S.26 before the end of the session or if it will be postponed indefinitely. It remains postponed on the Senate Calendar at the time of publication.
S.214: Tuition for NEK-New Hampshire Border Pre-K Students
Under a bill scheduled to be voted on today in the Senate, young students living in some remote areas of the Northeast Kingdom will be able to attend certain New Hampshire schools. S.214, introduced initially by Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale (D-Chittenden Southeast), prekindergarten students living in Essex County along the New Hampshire border will be able to attend schools within 25 miles of the VT-NH border with full tuitioning from the NEK School Choice District.
S.198: New fines for tobacco violations.
The Vermont Senate is scheduled to vote today on a bill that will raise fines and penalties on individuals who sell tobacco or nicotine products without a license or provide or sell the same products to anyone under the age of 21. The bill, S.198, introduced initially by Sen. Virginia Lyons (D-Chittenden Southeast), raises the fine for providing or selling to minors from $100 to $1,000 for the first violation. The bill also imposes new fines of $1,000, $2,000, $3,500, and $5,000 for second, third, fourth, and fifth violations; this includes a new provision requiring revocation of tobacco licenses on the fifth violation.
Information for In Committee news reports are sourced from GoldenDomeVt.com and the General Assembly website. Generative AI has not been used in the writing of this story.
Other bills on the Senate agenda today include:
S.193, establishing a forensic facility for criminal suspects believed to have mental illness.
S.278, cannabis law changes, including (as introduced) raising the legal threshhold of THC content to 70% in concentrated products, removes flower THC limits, and increases legal transactions to two ounces. Creates an interstate compact for cannabis sales.
S.64, increasing the scope of practice for optometrists.
S.142, licensure for internationally-trained physicians.
S.214, pre-K in geographically isolated districts.
These bills, if granted final approval in the Senate, will then proceed to the House.
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This is why we have idiots running our country because we have idiots voting for these idiots. Why would you put a freeze on a ban?? they banned things that are not good for Americans and the food and drug administration should ban even more. There’s so many chemicals being put into the food in the United States. It is literally killing people. These products are banned in every country except for United States. It’s obviously the idiots that are running this country. Don’t know what’s good for American people
Why has enforcement slowed against Maine’s Chinese marijuana grows?
Despite the Trump administration’s promises of a federal crackdown, Maine sheriffs say they are bearing the burden of investigating hundreds of grows run by transnational criminal groups. The Chinese are using chemicals to grow ultra-high potency pot which are carcinogenic, which the state of Maine’s testing program don’t have the ability to test for! Furthermore, where the THC amount found in the pot of the 60s and 70s was 2 to 4%, today it exceeds 80%. You don’t hear much about the detrimental psychosis of regular users, nor are we hearing anything about the dangers of secondhand smoke.