Vermont H. 809: An act relating to fees for motor vehicle operating records

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H.809 1
Introduced by Representatives Cina of Burlington, Logan of Burlington, and 2
Tomlinson of Winooski 3
Referred to Committee on 4
Date: 5
Subject: Education; education finance; foundation formula; education 6
transformation; tuition eligibility; approved independent schools; 7
State Board of Education; regional assessment districts; property tax 8
classifications; School Construction Aid Special Fund 9
Statement of purpose of bill as introduced: This bill proposes to repeal 2025 10
Acts and Resolves No. 73 except changes made to the tuition eligibility criteria 11
for approved independent schools in 16 V.S.A. § 828; the State Board of 12
Education appointment authority changes in 16 V.S.A. §§ 161 and 162; the 13
creation of regional assessment districts; and miscellaneous tax provisions. 14
The bill would create a new property tax classification and an increased rate 15
for residential properties used as second homes and short-term rentals and 16
further creates a new property classification for nonhomestead seasonal 17
residential properties that are taxed like nonhomestead nonresidential 18
properties. It would also create a summer study committee to study and make 19
recommendations regarding class sizes. 20

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An act relating to the repeal of 2025 Acts and Resolves No. 73 1
It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont: 2
* * * Intent * * * 3
Sec. 1. INTENT 4
With the repeal of portions of 2025 Acts and Resolves No. 73, it is the 5
intent of the General Assembly to transform Vermont’s education governance 6
system by: 7
(1) building upon the work of 2015 Acts and Resolves No. 46 by 8
identifying the characteristics of Vermont’s preferred education governance 9
structure or structures and incentivizing school districts to voluntarily merge 10
into larger school districts that satisfy the identified characteristics; 11
(2) leveraging the economies of scale and efficiencies that may be 12
provided through the use of boards of cooperative education services (BOCEs) 13
by creating five to 10 BOCEs that provide membership for each supervisory 14
union in Vermont; and 15
(3) adding the construction of regional high schools to the list of high-16
priority funding areas in the State Aid for School Construction Program 17
operated pursuant to 16 V.S.A. chapter 123. 18
* * * Act 73 Repeals * * * 19
Sec. 2. ACT 73 REPEALS 20

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The following sections of 2025 Acts and Resolves No. 73 are repealed on 1
passage: 2
(1) Sec. 1 (findings; intent; plan); 3
(2) Sec. 2 (Commission on the Future of Public Education); 4
(3) Sec. 3 (School District Redistricting Task Force); 5
(4) Sec. 4 (School District Voting Ward Working Group); 6
(5) Sec. 5 (scale; intent); 7
(6) Sec. 6 (prospective amendment to 16 V.S.A. § 165; class size 8
minimums); 9
(7) Sec. 7 (failure to comply with class size minimums); 10
(8) Sec. 8 (SBE rules; report); 11
(9) Sec. 9 (AOE report; school calendar; graduation requirements); 12
(10) Sec. 10 (SBE rule review; appropriation); 13
(11) Sec. 23 (state-level governance; intent); 14
(12) Sec. 27 (prospective amendments to 16 V.S.A. § 823); 15
(13) Sec. 28 (prospective tuition repeals); 16
(14) Sec. 28a (State Board of Education tuition fee rules); 17
(15) Sec. 29 (special education report); 18
(16) Sec. 30 (AOE special education strategic plan); 19
(17) Sec. 31 (AOE position); 20
(18) Sec. 32 (AOE transformation support); 21

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(19) Sec. 33 (AOE positions); 1
(20) Secs. 34–43 (transition to cost-factor foundation formula); 2
(21) Sec. 44 (transportation reimbursement guidelines); 3
(22) Sec. 45 (inflationary measures; prekindergarten; reports); 4
(23) Sec. 45a (foundation formula report); 5
(24) Sec. 45b (educational opportunity payment transition); 6
(25) Secs. 46, 47, 49, and 50 (statewide education tax; supplemental 7
district spending tax); 8
(26) Sec. 46a (supplemental district spending tax; cap; transition); 9
(27) Sec. 48 (prospective amendments to December 1 letter); 10
(28) Sec. 48a (tax rate transition); 11
(29) Secs. 51, 52, and 54–56 (property tax credit repeal; creation of 12
homestead exemption); 13
(30) Sec. 53 (homestead exemption report); 14
(31) Sec. 57 (Education Fund Advisory Committee; review of 15
foundation formula); 16
(32) Secs. 60 and 61 (property tax classifications); 17
(33) Sec. 61a (tax classifications transition); 18
(34) Sec. 61b (property tax classifications implementation report); 19
(35) Sec. 61c (tax classifications intent); and 20
(36) Sec. 61d (prospective repeal). 21

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Sec. 3. 2025 Acts and Resolves No. 73, Sec. 70 is amended to read: 1
Sec. 70. EFFECTIVE DATES 2
(a) This section and the following sections shall take effect on passage: 3
(