Vermont H 931: An act relating to taxing robocalls

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No. 160. An act relating to miscellaneous changes in education law.
(H.931)
It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont:
* * * Approved Independent School Moratorium * * *
Sec. 1. 2023 Acts and Resolves No. 78, Sec. E.511.1, as amended by 2025
Acts and Resolves No. 72, Sec. 16, is amended to read:
Sec. E.511.1 MORATORIUM ON APPROVAL OF NEW APPROVED
INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the State Board
of Education shall be prohibited from approving an application for initial
approval of an approved independent school until further direction by the
General Assembly.
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, a change in either tax
status or conversion to a nonprofit organization by a therapeutic approved
independent school, absent any other changes, shall not affect the approval
status of the school.
(c) Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b) of this section, the moratorium
on approval of new approved independent schools shall not apply to changes in
ownership of therapeutic approved independent schools as that term is defined
in 16 V.S.A. § 828(d). If submission of an application for initial approval of
an approved independent school is required as the result of a change in
ownership of a therapeutic approved independent school that at the time of the

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change in ownership is approved by the State Board of Education pursuant to
16 V.S.A. § 166, and the school will remain a therapeutic approved
independent school after the change in ownership is complete, the moratorium
created pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall not apply and the
Agency of Education and State Board of Education shall process the
application according to applicable State and federal law.
* * * Interstate Compact for Education * * *
Sec. 2. 16 V.S.A. chapter 35 is added to read:
CHAPTER 35. INTERSTATE COMPACT FOR EDUCATION
§ 1501. PURPOSE AND POLICY—ARTICLE I
(a) It is the purpose of this compact to:
(1) establish and maintain close cooperation and understanding among
executive, legislative, professional educational, and lay leadership on a
nationwide basis at the state and local levels;
(2) provide a forum for the discussion, development, crystallization, and
recommendation of public policy alternatives in the field of education;
(3) provide a clearinghouse of information on matters relating to
education problems and how they are being met in different places throughout
the nation, so that the executive and legislative branches of state government
and of local communities may have ready access to the experience and record
of the entire country, and so that both lay and professional groups in the field

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of education may have additional avenues for the sharing of experience and the
interchange of ideas in the formation of public policy in education;
(4) facilitate the improvement of state and local education systems so
that all of them will be able to meet adequate and desirable goals in a society
that requires continuous qualitative and quantitative advance in educational
opportunities, methods, and facilities.
(b) It is the policy of this compact to encourage and promote local and state
initiative in the development, maintenance, improvement, and administration
of education systems and institutions in a manner that will accord with the
needs and advantages of diversity among localities and states.
(c) The party states recognize that each of them has an interest in the
quality and quantity of education furnished in each of the other states, as well
as in the excellence of its own education systems and institutions, because of
the highly mobile character of individuals within the nation, and because the
products and services contributing to the health, welfare, and economic
advancement of each state are supplied in significant part by persons educated
in other states.
§ 1502. STATE DEFINED—ARTICLE II
As used in this compact, “state” means a state, territory, or possession of the
United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

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§ 1503. THE COMMISSION—ARTICLE III
(a) The Education Commission of the States, hereinafter called “the
Commission,” is hereby established. The Commission shall consist of seven
members representing each party state. One of such members shall be the
governor; two shall be members of the state legislature selected by its
respective houses and serving in such manner as the legislature may determine;
and four shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the governor, unless
the laws of the state otherwise provide. If the laws of a state prevent
legislators from serving on the Commission, six members shall be appointed
and serve at the pleasure of the governor, unless the laws of the state otherwise
provide. In addition to an