By Michael Bielawski
Highlights from bills under review this week by Vermont Senate committees appear below.
Shots for kids without parental consent? – S.151 (Wednesday, Senate Committee on Health and Welfare) sponsored by Sen. Virginia “Ginny” Lyons (D-Chittenden) would allow a child 12 and older to receive medical prevention by shots for STDs without parental approval.
Specifically, the bill provides that “If a minor 12 years of age or older is suspected to have a sexually transmitted infection and the finding is verified by a licensed physician, the minor may give consent to medical treatment and hospitalization….The consent of the parent or legal guardian of a minor consenting under this section shall not be necessary to authorize care as described in this subsection. The physician shall notify the parent, parents, or legal guardian of the minor if the condition of the minor child requires immediate hospitalization for treatment of the sexually transmitted infection.”
Minors already are allowed to receive abortions and identity counseling without parental notification. Opponents of vaccine mandates are concerned this bill could be construed to allow some other forms of vaccination.
Holocaust in education S. 87 (Tuesday, Senate Committee on Education) Sponsored by Sen. Virginia “Ginny” Lyons of Williston and others, lawmakers will hear legislative counsel Beth St. James talk about “Curriculum Support for S. 87.” The bill is to “require Vermont public schools to include Holocaust education in supervisory union wide curricula for grades six through 12 each year, beginning in the 2024–2025 school year.”
Paid Equity Commission for schools – S. 282 (Wednesday, Senate Committee on Education) sponsored by Sen. Alison Clarkson (D-Windsor) seeks to create an “Education Equity Team Pilot Project.” An Equity Team Commission would choose the project’s participants and support Equity Teams at the supervisory unions and school districts. “Equity teams will focus on antiracism, diversity, equity, and inclusion by reviewing equity-related policies and curriculum and will each receive a stipend of $10,000.00 to support their work.”
Wealth Tax – (Tuesday, Senate Committee on Finance) Joyce Manchester, senior economist and associate fiscal officer for the Joint Fiscal Office, will speak about the new wealth tax proposal. Someone from the Tax Department and Fair Share for Vermont will also speak.
Vermont’s wealth tax has made national headlines including MRCTV called it the “Nation’s 1st Tax on Theoretical Money.” Their article says the bill “would impose a marginal tax ‘surcharge’ of three percent of annual federal adjusted gross income above $500,000. If passed, the tax would be retroactive, meaning that it would apply to income earned in the current year, 2024, as well as in all future years.”
Universal Afterschool? The Vermont State Youth Council will talk to lawmakers, the specific speaker has yet to be determined. On a flier advertising for new members to join the council, there is a picture at the top with its priorities stated, they are “Mental Health, Student Debt, Equity, Climate Change, and Universal Afterschool.”
Online-only public meetings? – S. 55 (Wednesday, Senate Committee on Government Operations) sponsored by Sen. Alison Clarkson of Woodstock and others would “amend the Open Meeting Law to authorize public bodies to meet through electronic means without designating a physical meeting location.”
Not allowing for a physical location for a public meeting has been a concern amid committee testimonies already this year. Lisa Loomis, president of the Vermont Press Association, has expressed such concerns.
Constitutional Amendment to include gender identity – Prop 4 (Tuesday, Senate Committee on Judiciary) sponsored by Sen. Lyons and others would amend the state constitution to say that the State shall not deny equal treatment and respect under the law on account of a person’s race, ethnicity, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. The word ‘religion’ was included in the list of protected statuses in the original 2019 bill but has since been omitted.
Increased penalties for repeat drug dealers – S. 58 (Friday, Senate Committee on Judiciary) sponsored by Sen. Richard Sears (D-Bennington) would aim to increase penalties for repeat offenders convicted of dealing with certain hard drugs. It states the bill is “to amend the definition of knowingly for purposes of liability in drug offenses; increase penalties for second and subsequent offenses for trafficking,” and more.
Interrogation policies – S. 285 (Friday, Senate Committee on Judiciary) sponsored by Sears would limit police interrogation practices on persons under 20 years old. It “proposes to prohibit the use of threats, physical harm, or deception in the tactics employed by a law enforcement officer or government agent during the custodial interrogation of a person under 20 years of age.”
Reining in prescription drug costs? S. 98 (Friday, Senate Committee on Health and Welfare) sponsored by Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale and others would create some controls on drug prices. It would allow “the Green Mountain Care Board to evaluate the costs of certain high-cost prescription drugs and recommend methods for addressing those costs, including setting limits on what Vermonters would be expected to pay for some high-cost drugs.”
Office of New Americans? – S. 194 (Wednesday, Senate Committee on Government Operations) sponsored by Sen. Martine Gulick of Burlington and others would create a new and independent “Office of New Americans.” It’s not clear what this office would do. It states, “This bill proposes to require the Agency of Human Services, the Department of Labor, and the Office of Racial Equity to submit recommendations on the utility and structure of a to-be-created independent Office of New Americans.”
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would you want your child health care controlled by/// ginny lyons/// this person needs to go to a retirement home where they will give her the treatment that she needs///
I agree with you, and for several reasons. She appears to be sticking her nose into issues not even involving her own Comm. A good example of the need for term limits.
Touch my Grand Daughter with a and vaccine without permission, you will immediately meet the Judge!
Lot to unpack in this piece. While it is certainly unreasonable to allow minors to consent to treatment, and speaks to a much bigger problem, of more concern, although not the only, is this Office of New Americans. What in the holy heck is this nonsense. It is straight out of 1984.
Lord save us from ourselves and the evil that walks the earth.
Maine already has one and now they’re paying for “asylum seekers” to live in luxury apartments. Vermont doesn’t want to miss out on the fun.
I did some research and there are other states with an Office of New Americans. These offices function to provide citizenship to illegal immigrants in violation of immigration laws. These people do not qualify for citizenship. This is tied to the United Nations and World Economic Forum. Link below. The boarder has been open all along and Americans gaslight to believe it wasn’t. The United Nations put out a document in 2001 supporting that replacement migration was a solution to aging and declining populations, which explains the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal relative to member states facilitating orderly migration. This document also stated that migrants need to come to America to be educated and to make money because educated populations, especially woman, do not have as many or no children. So migration serves two objectives.
Even more scary is the fact that Henry Kissenger, a protege of Klaus Schwab, when he worked for the US government (State Department) put out the Kissenger Report in the mid 1970s, which focused on reducing fertility rates in America first via agriculture and education. Birth rates in America have dropped below replacement levels. The United Nation knows this, as it tracks and projects global populationsby nation. You can find this document and the other on the Internet. The Kissenger Report is declassified.
https://www.weforum.org/organizations/new-america/
Henry Kissenger’s was a mentor for Klaus Schwab. They have always been of the same mind set.
The Office of New Americans is specifically for people like the 500 “refugees” the state ordered (yes, “ordered” from apparently the latest foreign government mail-order catalog I suppose) for 2024 who will be primarily taken out of Africa and Afghanistan & brought to VT, as well as scores of illegal aliens crossing the open “border” of this sovereign country.
The office will then promptly indoctrinate them, hand over phones, checks, & fill out all the necessary social welfare forms for them, and then register them to vote. The likeness to “1984” is uncanny, isn’t it? But after all, Vermont was too “white” and far too “safe” to be tolerated any longer.
Did you ever believe we would live to see this? George Orwell was a true prophesier.
Shots for kids without parental consent? Yes, it does mean using HPV vaccines without parental consent and they have been proven to cause death and disability. It also violates federal law and if passed will bring lawsuits to Vermont. https://www.healthchoicevt.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Letter-to-Vermont-State-Assembly-2023_05_10.pdf
For a state to undermine parental rights and teach children to go behind their backs is unconscionable and just plain wrong. Twelve years old, just at the age kids are likely to become rebellious while they’re testing their independence, and the state is in favor of giving kids permission to lie?
Imagine the unintended consequences like a vaccine injury. What happens then. There’s no liability protection for an injured kid, the parent’s would be on the hook for all the fallout whether illness or death. Which pharmaceutical company is lobbying for this? Is it GlaxoSmithKline or Merck? How much are they paying the bill’s sponsors? Just asking. I’d like to know because this is conveniently tacked inside a long winded bill where its not very noticeable.
If you read the VT Department of Education guidelines on Comprehensive Sexuality Education, it did the same thing. The guide instructed educators to have explicit conversations about sex that included students discuss their personal sexual experiences. The guide even required students to role play sexual scenarios through the lense of different genders, and then instructed students to not discuss what occurs in class with parents. This is business as usual for the beurocrats in this state.
Do you have a link?
For those who want the link. Click on Essential Topics in Sexual Health Education document, which is listed at https://education.vermont.gov/student-support/healthy-and-safe-schools/sexual-health
I read this document a number of years ago but I believe this is the one
There are others you can look at.
https://vtstatepolice.blogspot.com/2024/01/shaftsbury-barracks-luring-child.html
Sounds quite similar to these charges. Maybe arrests need to be made.
Any bill with “equity” in it needs to be opposed fully and any current “equity” committees need to be removed. Alison Clarkson needs to be asked why she doesn’t support “equality” and rather supports “equity” i.e. persecution of whites.
When I read about the wealth tax proposal two things come to mind very quickly…tar…and feathers.
This would be teaching our children that having sex after the age of 12 is OK because if you are not safe and get an STD then you can get help with it and parents would not know. Sort of letting them know that sex at a young age is OK.
Why not teach them about the dangers of STDs at a younger age as a prevention.
drop off a can of tar and a pillow at the state house/// give it to the capital police and tell them a senator ordered it///
The state owns you and your children. It is a government school. A government medical system. A government-controlled internet and press.
If you think they care about you, you are sadly mistaken. They care about power and money, to which they have taken all your money and get power from lobbyist, corporatists and world organizations. We do not live in a functional republic.
Ginny Lyons, please take the shots for the team and lead by example. Please provide video of you being administered every recommended shot you wish pumped into the veins of your constiuents, young and old, with a medical affidavit and neutral witnesses certifying the recommended shots are legit as well as “safe and effective.” Once you provide evidence that you indeed do as you say, not as you do, we’ll take your proposal under the consideration it deserves. Thank you!
Planned Parenthood who financed your supermajority of progressive democrats do not want you to oppose any of this. They intentionally took “religious rights” out of it. The progressives want children to not tell their parents about them experimenting with sex getting an STD or of changing their gender status. Remember Planned Parenthood wants to control the number of instate and out of state abortions and they want to be a majority provider of gender reassignment drugs and surgeries that could span a lifetime still leaving the child as an adult sterile and unhappy no matter where you live because Vermont is definitely open for reassignment and abortion business.