Vermont Vote Reports

2025 VT Legislative Scorecard

The following scorecard lists several key votes in the Vermont General Assembly in 2025 and ranks state representatives and senators based on their fidelity to (U.S.) constitutional and limited-government principles.

Senate Votes

  • Affordable Heat Act Repeal

    Would repeal the Affordable Heat Act in its entirety, including eliminating of the Clean Heat Standard.

  • Age-Appropriate Design Code Act

    Creates the Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, which imposes extensive regulations on "covered businesses," mandating highest-level default privacy settings for minors, as well as restrictions on data collection, processing, sharing, and retention of minors' personal data.

  • Transgender-support Resolution

    Declares Vermont's support for the "Transgender and non-binary community" and commitment to the LGBTQ+ movement.

  • Collective-bargaining Constitutional Amendment

    Proposes to amend Chapter I of the Vermont Constitution, establishing a constitutional right for employees to organize or join a labor organization.

  • Omnibus Spending Bill

    The "Big Bill - Fiscal Year 2026 Appropriations Act" makes appropriations to support state government operations in fiscal year 2026.

  • Homeless Community Programs

    Establishes the Vermont Homeless Emergency Assistance and Responsive Transition to Housing Program.

House Votes

  • Collective-bargaining Constitutional Amendment

    Proposes to amend Chapter I of the Vermont Constitution, establishing a constitutional right for employees to organize or join a labor organization.

  • Collective Bargaining

    Amends Vermont's labor laws to facilitate union organization to include Judiciary Department positions, and expands collective bargaining-rights.

  • Omnibus Spending Bill

    The "Big Bill - Fiscal Year 2026 Appropriations Act" makes appropriations to support state government operations in fiscal year 2026.

  • Healthcare Central Planning

    Enacts comprehensive healthcare payment and delivery-system reform.

  • Homeless Community Programs

    Establishes the Vermont Homeless Emergency Assistance and Responsive Transition to Housing Program.

  • Subsidized Housing

    Omnibus housing-development bill that expands the Vermont Rental Housing Improvement Program with grants and forgivable loans, and creates the Vermont Manufactured Home Improvement and Repair Program.

2024 VT Legislative Scorecard

The following scorecard lists several key votes in the Vermont General Assembly in 2024 and ranks state representatives and senators based on their fidelity to (U.S.) constitutional and limited-government principles.

Senate Votes

  • Tobacco Ban

    Targets tobacco and nicotine use through extensive regulatory measures.

  • Climate Superfund Act

    Requires "compensatory" payments from entities involved in fossil fuel extraction or petroleum refining.

  • Ghost Guns

    Expands regulations on firearms purchases, possession, and serial numbers.

  • Renewable Energy Standard

    Requires "compensatory" payments from entities involved in fossil fuel extraction or petroleum refining.

  • Education Taxation

    Expands taxation on, and DEI in, public education and equal opportunity programs.

  • Farming Restrictions

    Expands neonicotinoid pesticide regulations for farmers.

House Votes

  • Regulating Businesses

    Expands regulations on beverage manufacturing businesses.

  • Hair Discrimination

    Creates a protected class, expands the state's anti-discrimination laws on "race", and further divides Americans against each other.

  • Farming Restrictions

    Expands neonicotinoid pesticide regulations for farmers.

  • Ghost Guns

    Expands regulations on firearms purchases, possession, and serial numbers.

  • Collective Bargaining

    Would expand collective bargaining to allow outside organizations to sue employers for cause.

  • Education Taxation

    Expands taxation on, and DEI in, public education and equal opportunity programs.

2023 VT Legislative Scorecard

The following scorecard lists several key votes in the Vermont General Assembly in 2023 and ranks their State Senators and House Representatives based on their fidelity to (U.S.) constitutional and limited-government principles.

Senate Votes

House Votes

  • Climate Change "Education"

    Would bring 50 percent of Vermont's total land area under conservation status by 2050.

  • "Reproductive Health"

    Requires insurance companies to provide so-called gender affirming health care and abortion coverage to residents of Vermont.

  • Red Flag Law

    Allows family members to report someone as unstable, prohibiting them from purchasing a weapon.

  • Government-Funded Lunches

    Would take money from the federal government to provide universal school lunches in Vermont.

  • Cap and Trade Scheme

    Would force a carbon credit system upon businesses, and increase the role of the state in energy matters.

  • Statewide Preschool Funding

    Would require all school districts to provide full day kindergarten care to all children in the district.

2022 VT Legislative Scorecard 2021-

The following scorecard lists several key votes in the Vermont General Assembly in 2021-2022 and ranks their State Senators and House Representatives based on their fidelity to (U.S.) constitutional and limited-government principles.

This is our first state-level Scorecard; the selected votes may not be reflective of legislators' overall records. Their cumulative scores will change as we add more votes. Please check regularly for updates.

Senate Votes

  • Vote by Mail

    Requires the Secretary of State to mail every active voter a postage-paid ballot for each general election.

  • Gun Rights

    Prohibits the possession of firearms within hospital buildings.

  • School Meals

    Provides free public school breakfast for students.

  • Environmental Justice

    Establishes an environmental justice policy for the State of Vermont, which would require State agencies to have new environmental-justice-related responsibilities, establish the creation of a State environmental justice mapping tool, and establish a 17-member Advisory Council on Environmental Justice.

  • National Popular Vote

    Nominates state electors based on the national popular vote in presidential elections.

  • Affordable Housing

    Introduces new programs with the goal of increasing access to housing, primarily by increasing the housing stock and making existing homes more affordable to homebuyers.

House Votes

  • Vote by Mail

    Requires the Secretary of State to mail every active voter a postage-paid ballot for each general election.

  • Broadband Expansion

    Provides government funding for broadband expansion under the Vermont Community Broadband Authority.

  • Racism Health Emergency

    Declares racism as a public health emergency.

  • Clean Heat Standard

    Establishes the Clean Heat Standard to reduce Vermont's greenhouse gas emissions from the thermal (heating) sector.

  • Affordable Housing

    Introduces new programs with the goal of increasing access to housing, primarily by increasing the housing stock and making existing homes more affordable to homebuyers.

  • Trans Youth

    Supports transgender youth and their parents who seek essential medical care for the treatment of gender dysphoria.

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