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Week 17 of the Vermont Legislative Session
Constitutional amendment, banning plastic bags and a major problem emerges in the education fund
Ed financing and the accidentally-on-purpose gaps
Interesting issues in the ed finance/property tax in the last two weeks. First there is a growing need for funding for state placed students (students having to live in foster families) who are coming into the public school system with increased trauma and need - some of which is being driven by the opioid epidemic. …
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Week 16 of the Vermont legislative session
Lead bill passes House, Green Up Day details, countdown to the end of session
S.169 An Act Relate to Firearms Regulation
Waiting period for firearms purchases bill
Rep. Sibilia: Week 15 of the 2019 Vermont legislative session
Vermont smoking age raised to 21 this week
Rep. Sibilia: Week 14 of the 2019 Vermont legislative session
Indigenous People Day and approving Montpelier's non-citizen voting
Rep. Sibilia: Week 13 of the 2019 Vermont legislative session
Pensions, population and fossil fuel infrastructure
Rep. Sibilia: Week 12 of the 2019 Vermont legislative session
This week saw passage of Paid Family and Medical Leave in the House, and a Constitutional Amendment Declaration of rights; right to personal reproductive liberty in the Senate.
Public comment on Somerset Integrated Resource Project until April 29
From: https://visitstratton.com/listings/somerset-reservoir-hiking-trail/ The USDA Forest Service has completed the proposed action for the Somerset Integrated Resource Project and is now inviting your written comments in response to the proposal during a 30-day comment period that will begin with the March 29, 2019 publication of the legal notice in the Rutland Herald newspaper. The 30-day comment …
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Vermont State Representative Laura Sibilia 