Senate Finance and Appropriations committees on April 17 discussed proposals to reallocate one time general fund resources between a proposed property tax buy down and expansions of the renter rebate alongside a range of budget adjustments
Legislative committees on April 17 considered a range of bills and amendments affecting health care licensure social services eligibility and administration solid waste and recycling program transitions housing and eviction policy transport
Vermont expanded its office footprint during the remote work era, even as vacancy increased and thousands of employees worked from home. Now, new leases are being added to support a return to office—raising questions about how the state man
Lawmakers across multiple standing committees on April 16 discussed proposals and budget language touching on school spending penalties and weights a statutory homelessness response continuum shifts in revenue for the transportation and edu
Lawmakers in multiple House and Senate committees on April 16 heard testimony and exchanged detailed policy information across environment taxation housing and health topics Witnesses and agency officials described new forest data and manag
The claim that remote workers are more productive gets repeated so often it's treated as settled science. It isn't. The peer-reviewed research is split, the methodology behind the most-cited studies matters enormously, and the standards ser
Legislative committees on April 15 took up a range of proposals and agency updates touching mandates tax changes penalties spending priorities and regulatory authority Major topics included proposed appliance efficiency alignment with feder
The Legislature held a series of committee hearings April 15 that covered proposals affecting homelessness response and secure transport of children wetlands and housing development rules a proposed state surtax on investment income and cha
Vermont state employees received compensation packages that included payment for the burden of physical attendance — commute costs, rigid hours, required presence. That burden vanished overnight in March 2020 by emergency order, not by nego
Legislative committees met April 14 and heard detailed presentations and policy discussion on school construction aid and state bonding a series of tax conformity and revenue modeling items tied to federal changes and tax planning using tru
Legislative committees on Tuesday considered a range of policy proposals and briefings with recurring themes of housing finance Medicaid coverage and administrative burdens energy and land use planning and liability or procedural mandates a
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