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“Our laws should protect people, not push them further toward the margins of our society,” Sen. Becca White said at a press conference calling on Vermont to decriminalize sex work.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Senate on Friday passed a bill that aims to protect health care workers from disciplinary action for providing abortions and gender-affirming health care, and change insurance premium charges related to such care.

An analyst with the Legislature’s Joint Fiscal Office told lawmakers on Friday that preliminary estimates pegged the combined annual cost of paid leave and child care subsidies at about $190 million in 2025, which would be the first full year of operation.

MONTPELIER — The Vermont Senate on Friday passed a bill that aims to protect health care workers from disciplinary action for providing abortions and gender-affirming health care, and change insurance premium charges related to such care. The...

Committee chair Kesha Ram Hinsdale is committed to passing bills to expand union organization protections and beef up workplace discrimination legal protections by Friday.

As Vermont lawmakers attempt to beef up protections to reproductive health care within the state, lawsuits across the country threaten to impede access to care nationwide.

The senator said her amendment would offer 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents, apply to all genders and be available in the case of both births and adoptions.

Following pushback from the child care sector, Democrats in the Vermont Senate are backing off from plans to enact full-day prekindergarten in public schools.Currently, the families of all 3- and 4-year-olds in Vermont receive a voucher for each child...

“One of the things that we heard in testimony is how if we took all the 4-year-olds out categorically right away, it would devastate child care facilities,” said Sen. Ginny Lyons, one of the bill’s sponsors.

With barely a ripple of dissent, House members made quick work on Friday of their companion to a Senate bill still in committee.