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ORCA Media: Governor Scott signs H454 school bill. Click image to watch.
Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott today signed the education transformation bill, which was a centerpiece of legislation and one which came as a conference committee hammered out the last details at the end of the session, on June 16. The legislation provides a roadmap that begins with setting school district boundaries by July 1, 2026, which is a year earlier than in the initial version.
On July 1, Governor Scott signed a bill of the following title:
- H.454, An act relating to transforming Vermont’s education governance, quality, and finance systems
To view a complete list of action on bills passed during the 2025 legislative session, click here or see below.
ACTION on BILLS
February 13, 2025
- Signed H.78, An act relating to the use of the Australian ballot system in local elections
February 19, 2025
- Signed H.35, An act relating to unmerging the individual and small group health insurance markets
March 5, 2025
- Signed H.31, An act relating to claim edit standards and prior authorization requirements
March 14, 2025
March 31, 2025
April 4, 2025
April 15, 2025
- Signed H.154, An act relating to designating November as the Vermont Month of the Veteran
April 23, 2025
- Signed H.80, An act relating to the Office of the Health Care Advocate
April 24, 2025
- Signed S.3, An act relating to the transfer of property to a trust
April 29, 2025
- Signed H.118, An act relating to expanding the scope of hate-motivated crimes
- Signed H.259, An act relating to preventing workplace violence in hospitals
May 1, 2025
- Signed H.10 An act relating to approval of amendments to the charter of the City of Barre
- Signed H.243 An act relating to the regulation of business organizations
- Signed S.9 An act relating to after-hours access to orders against sexual assault
- Signed S.30 An act relating to updating and reorganizing the health insurance statutes in 8 V.S.A. chapter 107
May 5, 2025
- Signed H.17, An act relating to approval of the adoption of the charter of the Town of Morristown
- Signed H.21, An act relating to service of writs of possession
May 13, 2025
- Signed H.13, An act relating to Medicaid payment rates for community-based service providers
- Signed H.96, An act relating to increasing the monetary thresholds for certificates of need
- Signed H.206, An act relating to the Uniform Commercial Code
- Signed H.218, An act relating to fiscal year 2026 appropriations from the Opioid Abatement Special Fund
- Signed H.463, An act relating to technical corrections for the 2025 legislative session
- Signed S.18, An act relating to licensure of freestanding birth centers
- Signed S.28, An act relating to access to certain legally protected health care services
May 15, 2025
- Signed S.27, An act relating to medical debt relief and excluding medical debt from credit reports | Letter
- Signed S.36, An act relating to the delivery and payment of certain services provided through the Agency of Human Services, services for persons who are incapacitated, and Human Services Board proceedings
- Vetoed H.219, An act relating to establishing the Department of Corrections’ Family Support Program | Letter
May 19, 2025
- Signed H.137, An act relating to the regulation of insurance products and services
- Signed H.491, An act relating to setting the homestead property tax yields and the nonhomestead property tax rate | Statement Commission
May 20, 2025
- Signed H.27, An act relating to the Domestic Violence Fatality Review
May 21, 2025
- Signed H.398, An act relating to the Vermont Economic Development Authority
- Signed H.493, An act relating to making appropriations for the support of the government | Letter
- Signed S.44, An act relating to authorization to enter into certain immigration agreements
- Signed S.56, An act relating to creating an Office of New Americans
May 22, 2025
- Signed H.41, An act relating to abuse of the dead body of a person
- Signed H.98, An act relating to confirmatory adoptions and standby guardianships
- Signed H.461, An act relating to expanding employee access to unpaid leave
- Signed H.494, An act relating to capital construction and State bonding
May 27, 2025
- Signed H.167, An act relating to establishing the Vermonters Feeding Vermonters Grant at the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets
- Signed H.339, An act relating to removing the repeal of 7 V.S.A. § 230
- Signed H.364, An act relating to approval of the annexation of property by the Village of Swanton
- Signed H.396, An act relating to the creation of the Mollie Beattie Distinguished Service Award
- Signed H.481, An act relating to stormwater management
May 28, 2025
- Signed S.50, An act relating to increasing the size of solar net metering projects that qualify for expedited registration
- Signed S.87, An act relating to extradition procedures
- Signed S.117, An act relating to wage and hour, unemployment compensation, and workers' compensation
June 2, 2025
- Signed H.44, An act relating to miscellaneous amendments to the laws governing impaired driving
- Signed H.401, An act relating to exemptions for food manufacturing establishments
- Signed H.488, An act relating to the fiscal year 2026 Transportation Program and miscellaneous changes to laws related to transportation | Statement
- Signed H.505, An act relating to approval of amendments to the charter of the Town of Barre
June 5, 2025
- Allowed H.1, An act relating to accepting and referring complaints by the State Ethics Commission to become law without his signature | Letter
- Signed H.105, An act relating to expanding the Youth Substance Awareness Safety Program
- Signed H.222, An act relating to civil orders of protection
- Signed H.231, An act relating to technical corrections to fish and wildlife statutes
- Signed H.458, An act relating to the Agency of Digital Services
- Signed H.482, An act relating to Green Mountain Care Board authority to adjust a hospital’s reimbursement rates and to appoint a hospital observer
- Signed H.504, An act relating to approval of amendments to the charter of the City of Rutland
June 9, 2025
- Signed S.53, An act relating to certification of community-based perinatal doulas and Medicaid coverage for doula services | Statement
- Signed S.59, An act relating to amendments to Vermont’s Open Meeting Law
- Vetoed S.125, An act relating to collective bargaining | Letter
June 11, 2025
- Vetoed H.91, An act relating to the Vermont Homeless Emergency Assistance and Responsive Transition to Housing Program | Letter
- Signed H.106, An act relating to selling real property within a FEMA mapped flood hazard area
- Signed H.209, An act relating to intranasal epinephrine in schools
- Signed H.238, An act relating to the phaseout of consumer products containing added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances
- Signed H.266, An act relating to the 340B prescription drug pricing program
- Signed H.321, An act relating to miscellaneous cannabis amendments
- Signed H.397, An act relating to miscellaneous amendments to the statutes governing emergency management and flood response
- Signed H.472, An act relating to professions and occupations regulated by the Office of Professional Regulation
- Signed H.484, An act relating to miscellaneous agricultural subjects
June 12, 2025
- Signed S.12, An act relating to sealing criminal history records
- Signed S.45, An act relating to protection from nuisance suits for agricultural activities
- Signed S.63, An act relating to modifying the regulatory duties of the Green Mountain Care Board
- Signed S.69, An act relating to an age-appropriate design code | Statement
- Signed S.109, An act relating to miscellaneous judiciary procedures
- Signed S.122, An act relating to economic and workforce development
- Signed S.123, An act relating to miscellaneous changes to laws related to motor vehicles
- Signed S.124, An act relating to miscellaneous agricultural subjects
- Signed S.126, An act relating to health care payment and delivery system reform
- Signed S.127, An act relating to housing and housing development
June 25, 2025
- Signed H.474, An act relating to miscellaneous changes to election law
- Signed S.51, An act relating to Vermont income tax exclusions and tax credits
June 27, 2025
- Signed H.480, An act relating to miscellaneous amendments to education law
July 1, 2025
- Signed H.454, An act relating to transforming Vermont’s education governance, quality, and finance systems
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