In a 107-42 vote, the lower chamber ensured the Legislature’s highest-profile climate bill will become law despite the governor’s opposition. Phil Scott’s veto of S.5, or the Affordable Heat Act. The final chapter of one of this legislative session’s fiercest political battles came to a close Thursday, when the House cast the final vote required to override Gov.

The Senate favored a payroll tax the House wanted to raise corporate and personal income taxes. While they generally agreed on the price tag - a little over $100 million a year - each body held fast to profoundly different ideas about how to raise the money. The two chambers have been at loggerheads for weeks about how to finance their historic investment in Vermont’s beleaguered child care sector. On the eve of their planned adjournment date, the House and Senate have broken an impasse that threatened to sink child care legislation that Democrats in both chambers championed as one of their biggest priorities coming into the session. Of course, no bill would be complete without a study, and H.470 does not disappoint, calling on the Department of Health and the Department of Liquor and Lottery to report on “the public health impacts” of to-go drinkies by January 2025. Matt Birong, D-Vergennes, with not so much as a giggle. “Once the sunset sunsets, I feel we should all celebrate with a round of tequila sunrises for the dawn of a new day,” said the bill’s primary sponsor, Rep. It will require reauthorization once again come 2025. Thursday’s vote tops Vermonters off for another two years of to-go bevs, but the bill is still far from bottomless. Yes, of course you could make your own drink, but that’s not the point, silly! Though to-go drinks are an advent of the era of social distancing, Vermonters and everyone else on planet Earth quickly learned that drinks taste infinitely better in some sort of disposable vessel, in a location of your choosing. Phil Scott signed an executive order allowing your favorite watering hole to sell alcohol for - as the kids surely call it - “off-premises consumption.” In 2021, the state codified the provision into law, but set it up to sunset come July 2023. The House and Senate on Thursday approved legislation permitting to-go sales of alcoholic drinks in the state for at least another two years.Īt the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Gov.

Pinkies up: To-go cocktails are here to stay in Vermont.

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