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Vermont Sen. Dick Sears (D)

Bennington district

January 23, 2026 at 5:00pm EST

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VT - Appropriations (Senate)

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VT - Joint Fiscal Committee

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VT - Joint Legislative Child Protection Oversight Committee

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VT - Joint Legislative Justice Oversight Committee

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VT - Judiciary (Senate)

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VT - Legislative Committee on Judicial Rules

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VT - S150 An act relating to legislative subpoenas

VT - S178 An act relating to supermajority verdicts in civil trials

VT - S5 An act relating to extreme risk protection orders

VT - S183 An act relating to midpoint probation review

VT - S108 An act relating to establishing the Bureau of Racial Justice Statistics and the Bureau of Racial Justice Statistics Advisory Panel

VT - S16 An act relating to the creation of the Task Force on Equitable and Inclusive School Environments

VT - S45 An act relating to earned discharge from probation

VT - S254 An act relating to maintaining records of judgments and settlements paid by law enforcement agencies and a legal analysis of qualified immunity

VT - S187 An act relating to the mental state required for prosecution of criminal drug offenses and penalties for dispensing or selling fentanyl

VT - S185 An act relating to miscellaneous cannabis establishment procedures

VT - S8 An act relating to sexual exploitation of children

VT - S93 An act relating to exempting certain services from the requirements for unemployment insurance and workers’ compensation coverage

VT - S77 An act relating to sports wagering

VT - S127 An act relating to clarifying community supervision furlough appeals and the powers of the Corrections Monitoring Commission

VT - S7 An act relating to expanding access to expungement and sealing of criminal history records

VT - S103 An act relating to immunity from liability for a person reporting a crime

VT - S186 An act relating to the Medical Cannabis Registry

VT - S97 An act relating to miscellaneous judiciary procedures

VT - SR16 Senate resolution urging the United States Postal Service to improve immediately the reliability and timeliness of its deliveries and requesting that Congress take any necessary legislative actions to effectuate this objective

VT - S113 An act relating to establishing a cause of action for medical monitoring expenses

VT - S3 An act relating to competency to stand trial and insanity as a defense

VT - S39 An act relating to the Judicial Branch fee report and electronic filing fees

VT - S11 An act relating to economic and workforce development

VT - S18 An act relating to limiting earned good time sentence reductions for offenders convicted of certain crimes

VT - S6 An act relating to repealing the Commissioner of Labor’s authority to recommend a subminimum wage for individuals with a disability

VT - S188 An act relating to regulating licensed small cannabis cultivation as farming

VT - HCR9 House concurrent resolution recognizing the unwavering dedication of Vermont’s health care workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic

VT - HCR20 House concurrent resolution congratulating the 2020 class of Boy Scouts who have achieved the rank of Eagle

VT - HCR31 House concurrent resolution in memory of U.S. Second Circuit Judge Peter W. Hall

VT - HCR44 House concurrent resolution congratulating the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation on the 30th anniversary of its TRIO Educational Opportunity Center of Vermont

VT - HCR57 House concurrent resolution honoring former Arlington Selectboard Chair Keith Squires and former Arlington School Board Chair Donna Squires for their dedicated municipal civic service

VT - HCR59 House concurrent resolution congratulating the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington on earning its fifth consecutive Magnet recognition despite the COVID-19 pandemic

VT - HCR60 House concurrent resolution honoring the exemplary teaching and leadership of David Estes at the School of Sacred Heart Saint Francis de Sales

VT - HCR67 House concurrent resolution commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Breakenridge Stand-off in North Bennington

VT - HCR76 House concurrent resolution congratulating Elle Purrier St. Pierre on her outstanding performance in the 2020 Olympics women’s 1500-meter race

VT - HCR103 House concurrent resolution congratulating the 2021 class of Eagle Scouts in the State of Vermont

VT - HCR116 House concurrent resolution commemorating the 250th anniversary of the New Yorkers’ capture and Bennington posse’s rescue of early Arlington leader and pre-Revolutionary War patriot Remember Baker Jr.

VT - HCR117 House concurrent resolution congratulating Catamount Access Television in Bennington on its 30th anniversary

VT - HCR120 House concurrent resolution congratulating the 2022 Mt. Anthony Union High School boys’ Division I Nordic skiing championship team

VT - HCR121 House concurrent resolution congratulating the 2022 Mt. Anthony Union High School Patriots State championship wrestling team

VT - HCR142 House concurrent resolution in memory of Sister Janice E. Ryan, RSM

VT - HCR149 House concurrent resolution honoring former Sunderland Town Clerk and Treasurer Rose Keough

VT - HCR160 House concurrent resolution honoring the General Assembly’s venerable head doorkeeper, Cornelius F. Reed Jr. of Wolcott

VT - S2 An act relating to spousal support and maintenance reform

VT - S20 An act relating to restrictions on perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances and other chemicals of concern in consumer products

VT - S25 An act relating to miscellaneous cannabis regulation procedures

VT - S42 An act relating to establishing the Emergency Service Provider Wellness Commission

VT - S52 An act relating to increasing the minimum wage to $15.00 per hour by 2025

VT - S72 An act relating to the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children

VT - S111 An act relating to local option taxes

VT - S130 An act relating to employment protection for volunteer emergency responders

VT - S142 An act relating to designating August 31 as Overdose Awareness Day

VT - S153 An act relating to eliminating the religious exemption for required immunizations

VT - S184 An act relating to defense of others and justifiable homicide

VT - S189 An act relating to the status of Holocaust education in public schools

VT - S243 An act relating to implementation of an unused prescription drug repository program

VT - S265 An act relating to expanding criminal threatening to include threats to third persons

VT - SR10 Senate resolution condemning anti-Asian and anti-Pacific Islander hate in the United States and recognizing May 2021 as Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in Vermont

VT - SR11 Senate resolution honoring the memory of George Floyd by designating May 25, 2021 as a Day of Remembrance and Action

VT - SR24 Senate resolution honoring Senator Patrick J. Leahy for his nearly half century of extraordinary public service in the U.S. Senate

VT - SR26 Senate resolution urging the Vermont Congressional Delegation to introduce and pursue the enactment of legislation authorizing permanent U.S. residency eligibility for the more than 800 international victims of the Vermont EB-5 scandal

VT - SCR5 Senate concurrent resolution designating May 2021 as Mental Health Awareness Month in Vermont

VT - SCR11 Senate concurrent resolution honoring John Shannahan for his exemplary leadership of the Better Bennington Corporation

VT - SCR12 Senate concurrent resolution memorializing the more than 500 Vermonters who have died due to COVID-19, extending sincere condolences to their families, and thanking those Vermonters whose frontline jobs have been especially challenging during the pandemic

VT - SCR16 Senate concurrent resolution commemorating the centennial of Robert Frost's poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

VT - SCR17 Senate concurrent resolution honoring John Shannahan for his extraordinary contributions to the economic and cultural life of the Town of Bennington

VT - SCR22 Senate concurrent resolution congratulating Jay and Joan Zwynenburg on the 50th anniversary of Jay’s Art Shop & Frame Gallery and for their roles as exemplary downtown Bennington entrepreneurs

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