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Vermont lawmakers have passed a so-called "Climate Superfund Act" designed to make fossil fuel companies pay for damage from weather disasters fueled by climate change.
The federal lawsuit filed Monday asks a state court to prevent Vermont from enforcing the law, which was passed last year. Vermont became the first state in the country to enact the law after it ...
The 2022 Vermont reproductive rights initiative, officially titled the "Reproductive Liberty Amendment", and listed on the ballot as Proposition 5, was a legislatively referred constitutional amendment that was adopted on November 8, 2022, by a landslide majority of 76.8% of voters. It codified reproductive rights in the Constitution of Vermont.
Vermont on Tuesday became the first state in the country to change its medically assisted suicide law to allow terminally ill people from out of state to take advantage of it to end their lives.
In February 2019, Vermont House Human Services and Judiciary committees held public hearings about abortion in relation to H.57, a bill to establish reproductive rights in state law. Proposal 5, the Reproductive Liberty Amendment, an amendment to the state constitution to codify abortion rights, was passed by the state senate.
The bill passed the Vermont General Assembly and was signed into law by the Governor of Vermont Phil Scott in April 2022. [39] [40] Since July 1, 2018, Vermont has required all single-user public bathrooms to be marked as gender-neutral, after Governor Phil Scott signed a bill to this effect into law in May 2018. [41] [42]
The preparedness act at the center of the Vermont Supreme Court case was part of the same series of laws. In this case, the act provided civil liability immunity to the school while it hosted the ...
California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont and Washington have passed laws to also protect telehealth actions when the provider prescribes abortion pills to a patient who is in an antiabortion state. [1] These shield laws have been enacted after the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with Dobbs in June 2022 ...