by Austin Davis, Lake Champlain Chamber
On Wednesday, the Vermont Senate passed the $8.61 billion state budget and sent it back to the House with a price tag that was about $2 million cheaper and without the more than $100 million that the House has raised in new taxes. The Senate budget is still over $60 million more than what the Governor proposed.
The House and Senate will now need to form a Committee of Conference to work to work out their differences in the bill.
As noted in last week’s update, the smaller price tag and fewer tax increases reflects the dichotomy of addressing problems with spending, as opposed to addressing problems with policy.
The housing and public safety legislation sent to the Senate by the House relied on new taxes and more spending while the Senate has curtailed spending and sought more policy levers.
In the final days of the legislative session, the House and Senate Committees on Judiciary are going to need to close the gap on a number of pieces of legislation. In these situations, a negotiation about one bill is never just about that one bill.
Overlaying all of the legislation is the broader conversation around funding. The House had sent a budget that funded 60+ new positions in the state’s criminal justice system; the Senate this week returned one that funds less than half of those. The Senate also agreed to fund three new superior court judges.
House, Senate working out differences in S.195 – Repeat Offender and Violations of Conditions of Release
The House Committee on Judiciary finalized their work on the legislation this week, making changes to the lifting of a cap on bail for repeat offenders, while still allowing for some discretion by judges.
The bill has now been referred to the House Committee on Correction and Institutions who will likely finish their work on it this afternoon and pass a version that looks close to this. The Senate’s budget as passed contains the funding for the pre-trial monitoring positions.
Categories: Legislation
Well, as long as all these new taxes being approved, at a time when taxpayers are revolting & are increasingly unable to pay their household costs, are going toward the causes of transgenderism in public schools and for building “free” abodes for yet more migrants, illegal aliens, and drug addicted persons…..then I’m good with it.
Nailed it!
Well, Vermont you vote these inept clowns in year after year and you expect something to change, they don’t care about your financial difficulties, but you are the money tree…………………………..
They’ll only listen when you vote them out and put someone in who cares about you
and the state, not just an agenda for their party, Vermont’s so-called “supermajority ” is a gaggle of fools, you keep working and they’ll keep spending !!
Wake up people
Obviously, economics is not considered in the budget process. Operation Tincup. Word has it the White House is all in a panic as the real numbers on the economic front do not bode well for re-selection. The war efforts are not playing well on the public’s bottom line. The country is falling apart from coast to coast. No matter the spin being sent down to the anchor desks, the news is not considered to those trying to pay their bills. Credit card defaults are at an all time high. Brace for impact.
as anybody seen klaus schwab/////
Klaus Schwab – A billionaire financier of Communism/Marxism and Nazi sympathizer who seeks to institute a one world order – or as Biden referred to it as the great “liberal world order”. His terrifying ideologies and intent for he and other dictatorial globalists to lord over the earth’s entire population, which is now embraced by the United Nations, is essentially the Book of Revelation come to fulfillment.
question/// once again/// has anyone seen klaus schwab in the last thirty days//////