Shaun Robinson

3 weeks ago | vtdigger.org | Shaun Robinson |Ethan Weinstein

MONTPELIER — After a drawn-out day of disagreements and false starts, the Vermont Legislature bailed on its plan to wrap up business for the year on Friday, failing to come to a deal, at least for now, on this year’s landmark education reform bill. So strained were the talks, the House and Senate couldn’t even immediately agree on when negotiations would continue.

4 weeks ago | vtdigger.org | Shaun Robinson

MONTPELIER — A bill that would make a host of changes to the state’s election laws, including an expansion of who must file campaign finance disclosures, appeared to be facing dim prospects Friday — even though the House approved the legislation in March. The reason the bill, H.474, hadn’t yet advanced in the Senate, on what could be the final day of this year’s legislative session?

4 weeks ago | vtdigger.org | Shaun Robinson

A bill that supporters say would cut health care insurance costs for people across the state could have trouble getting over the finish line after the Senate made an eleventh hour change to its effective date late Thursday afternoon. That’s because the chamber now has another difference to reconcile with the House over the legislation, with potentially just a day left before the Legislature adjourns for the year.

1 month ago | vtdigger.org | Shaun Robinson

Tucked into this year’s miscellaneous motor vehicle bill, which passed the House Tuesday, is a measure supporters say could ensure Vermont driver’s licenses continue to reflect their holders’ true gender identities, even as the White House has restricted how transgender, nonbinary, intersex and other people can express their identities on U.S. passports. The legislation, S.123, would allow people to renew their Vermont licenses “at any time prior” to when the ID expires.

1 month ago | openlegalblogarchive.org | Shaun Robinson

A proposal that’s ping-ponged between two different transportation-related bills in recent weeks could impact a judge’s ruling in a yearslong, costly court battle over public access to a trail in Tunbridge. But only if the bill that includes that measure, the miscellaneous motor vehicle bill, crosses the finish line before the end of the session.