2025 Vermont Legislative Guide
Use this guide to learn all about how the Vermont Legislature works.
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A starter kit to the legislative session
Vermont lawmakers are regular citizens who are elected to represent your interests. It’s easier than you might think to follow along, reach out and get involved. Here’s what you need to know.
How to watch House & Senate
The Vermont General Assembly livestreams most of its activity on YouTube.
How to contact your legislators
You have at least one person representing you in the House and the Senate.
How a bill becomes a law
There are lots of ways a bill can get scuttled before it reaches the governor’s desk.
How to read the legislative calendar
If you want to follow the action, there are three different schedules to check.
Who’s in charge of the Legislature
Understand who’s doing what inside the Statehouse and the powers they hold.
How Vermont pays for schools
Lawmakers plan to make major changes to the education finance system in 2025.
How Vermont’s state budget is written
It’s a complex endeavor but tends to follow a predictable pattern from year to year.
Bill tracker
VTDigger has selected key pieces of legislation to follow as they make their way through the House and Senate during the session. Browse the bills below using the arrow buttons or search by name or topic. This tool will be regularly updated as the status of bills changes and additional legislation will be added.
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"The fastest, steadiest and most hilarious way to understand Vermont politics."
Final Reading is our free insider's guide to the Statehouse, delivered Tuesday through Friday evenings during the legislative session.
Lawmakers' ethics and financial disclosures
This tool includes state legislators’ 2025 ethics disclosures, which were filed at the beginning of the 2025 legislative session, and each person’s 2024 campaign disclosures, which were filed before the latest state elections. The two records contain slightly different pieces of information, each a snapshot of what occupations, volunteer roles and other involvements legislators hold outside of the Legislature.
Use the search bar below to look for a particular legislator or browse through the pages with the arrow key. The table contains pdf links to each legislators’ disclosure forms, along with a link to their profile page on the legislative website to learn more about the individual.
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Look up your legislators
Click on your county or use the maps below to find more information on your legislators.
Most recent legislative coverage
Gov. Phil Scott has signed Vermont’s education bill into law. Here’s what happens next.
The transformation is far from guaranteed. Lawmakers first need to agree on a new school district map before proceeding with other facets of the law.
Complaints allege Vermont senators with private school ties violated ethics rules during education bill negotiations
“I believe this crossed a line. Vermonters should be able to trust that lawmakers are working in the public interest, not using their influence to benefit their employers or clients,” the complaint author said.
Gov. Phil Scott signs $13.5 million tax credit package benefiting low-income workers, families, retirees and veterans
Scott and legislative Republicans have long pushed for exempting military pensions from income taxes. This year, lawmakers in all parties signed on to a significant exemption.
Final Reading: That’s all, folks, for Vermont’s 2025 legislative session
With lawmakers clearing out their desks and heading home for the summer, Final Reading is signing off, too, until the start of the 2026 legislative session next January.
Vermont Legislature adjourns 2025 session after weeks of debate on education reform
Negotiations over a bill that would fundamentally change how the state’s K-12 schools are governed and funded pushed this year’s session well into overtime.
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