Vermont Legislature

Earlier this week, Gov. Phil Scott touted a spending plan that “doesn’t raise taxes or fees.” On Thursday, however, Scott said his administration will be presenting lawmakers with a bill in the coming weeks that would assess a new fee on EVs.

A new report from the Vermont secretary of state's office says lawmakers should consider a law that bans firearms from town-owned municipal buildings.

There's a lot laid out in Gov. Phil Scott's 2026 budget he shared Tuesday — which totals about $9 billion. Here are just a few of the big proposals that might help break it down.

Money. School choice. Local control. The governor's plan wades into treacherous political waters.

Under Scott's plan, Vermont would go from having more than 100 school districts to five and see the state government assume a much more direct role in deciding how much schools spend, which schools close, and what is taught.

Economists say the Vermont and national economies are performing far better than economists predicted six months ago, and that “aggregate measures of economic activity have rarely been better.”

Old medical bills that have reached “terminal bad debt status” can be purchased for pennies on the dollar from collectors and health care providers. Officials are planning to introduce legislation to utilize that opportunity for Vermonters.

The overriding question for lawmakers this year isn't how the Legislature is going to hit its emissions-reduction requirements, but whether to keep them in law.

The proposed doula certification program would be a step toward allowing Medicaid coverage for doula services.

A first-in-the-nation policy that seeks to reduce the amount of fossil fuels Vermonters use to heat their homes would add an estimated 58 cents per gallon to the cost of heating fuel over the next 10 years, according to a report issued by the Public Utility Commission.