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Vermont's state legislature is the Vermont General Assembly, a bicameral body composed of the Vermont House of Representatives (the lower house) and the Vermont Senate (the upper house) meet at the Vermont State House. The Senate is composed of 30 state senators, while the House of Representatives has 150 members.
In 2013, Vermont became the 17th state to decriminalize marijuana. The statute makes possession of less than an ounce of the drug punishable by a small fine, rather than arrest and possible jail time. [306] In 2014, Vermont became the first state to call for a constitutional convention to overturn the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v.
The governor of Vermont is the head of government of the U.S. state of Vermont.The officeholder is elected in even-numbered years by direct voting for a term of two years. . Vermont and bordering New Hampshire are the only states to hold gubernatorial elections every two years, instead of every four as in the other 48 U.S. st
New residents of Vermont applying for registration for the first time on a motor vehicle acquired outside the State of Vermont on which a sales or use tax has been paid by the person applying for registration in Vermont, or their spouse, will be exempt from the Vermont Purchase and Use Tax upon providing proof that the tax paid in another ...
The Vermont attorney general is a statewide elected executive official in the U.S. state of Vermont who is elected every two years. [1] It was created by an act of the Vermont General Assembly in 1790, repealed in 1797, and revived in 1904. The office began as a one-person operation located at Windsor, Vermont, the state's first
By Vermont statute, the Great Seal of Vermont is the shared domain of the Vermont Secretary of State, the offices of the state governorship, and the legislative and judiciary branches of government. The original metal dies for the first seal of Vermont are stored at the Secretary of State's office at Redstone, a large red brick and sandstone ...
Montpelier (/ m ɒ n t ˈ p iː l j ər / mont-PEEL-yər) [6] [7] is the state capital of the U.S. state of Vermont and the county seat of Washington County.The site of Vermont's state government, it is the least populous state capital in the United States. [8]
In 1857 the State House burned and the items remaining at the State Library were relocated to a private home before moving back in to the rebuilt State House, and then to its own building. The State Library building was built in 1918 and was located at 111 State St in Montpelier Vermont in a space it shared with the state Supreme Court.