A new law would prevent landlords from evicting tenants during the emergency.

Legislative leaders have created an ad-hoc committee to keep abreast of the fast-paced changes in unemployment and state and federal resources and be ready with plans to help Vermont’s small businesses survive April and beyond.

Vermont’s legislative leaders are telling issue advocates that their bills have not been forgotten. “We’ll get to ‘em, don’t worry,” they are being told. But - will they still make sense if Vermont’s economy is in tatters?

The Vermont House yesterday passed emergency health care and unemployment bills, and figured out a way to change House rules in a way that allows committees and the full House to meet remotely.

Vermont lawmakers are grappling with finding unemployment payments for self employed workers as well as traditional employees.

The People’s House may be closed, but the People’s business is still being conducted - sort of.

To give the State House a good cleaning and the Legislature an opportunity to assess how to go forward at this time of coronavirus, House leaders chose to recess the Legislature this coming week.

Jim Sexton from Essex Junction went to Montpelier yesterday on a one-man mission to seek the removal of the sponsors of H610, the gun-seizure/domestic violence bill. He said it violates the presumption of innocence and 16th amendment gun possession rights found in the Vermont Constitution.

Welcome to the People’s House - a potential Grand Central Station for the transmission of a coronavirus epidemic. Legislators are determined to not let that happen.

 Gov. Scott and some GOP legislative leaders don’t see eye-to-eye on the progress made in the first half of the legislative session.