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The House Committee on Ways & Means considers matters relating to the revenue of the state, and which shall inquire into the state of the treasury; ascertain the amount of debt due the state, and the claims against it; report the amount of taxes necessary to be raised for the support of the government and inquire what measures, if any, ought to be adopted, the better to equalize the public burdens, secure the accountability of public agents, and otherwise improve the financial concerns of the state, including all matters relating to taxation, local or otherwise and all matters relating to the grand list.

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  • H.5 - An act relating to hunting, fishing, and trapping
  • H.22 - An act relating to military pension income tax exemption
  • H.35 - An act relating to improving the quality of State waters
  • H.40 - An act relating to establishing a renewable energy standard and energy transformation program
  • H.66 - An act relating to extending the deadline for qualifying contributions to Vermont’s 529 plan and creating an income tax return checkoff to permit contributions to Vermont’s 529 plan
  • H.93 - An act relating to increasing the smoking age from 18 to 21 years of age
  • H.108 - An act relating to electrical installations
  • H.117 - An act relating to telecommunications.
  • H.135 - An act relating to enabling the Vermont Department of Health to reach an agreement with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission regarding authority over regulation and licensing of radioactive material
  • H.178 - An act relating to the assessment of residential property values near the Burlington Airport
  • H.184 - An act relating to Executive Branch fees
  • H.206 - An act relating to regulating notaries public
  • H.222 - An act relating to extraction of groundwater and surface water
  • H.238 - An act relating to an income tax credit for home modifications required by a disability or physical hardship
  • H.272 - An act relating to current use and technical tax changes
  • H.282 - An act relating to professions and occupations regulated by the Office of Professional Regulation
  • H.317 - An act relating to military pension income tax exemption
  • H.324 - An act relating to making numerous changes to Vermont’s tax laws
  • H.354 - An act relating to clarifying the meaning of food processing for the purpose of the manufacturer’s exemption to Vermont’s sales and use tax
  • H.355 - An act relating to licensing and regulating foresters
  • H.356 - An act relating to an income tax checkoff for the General Fund
  • H.361 - An act relating to making amendments to education funding, education spending, and education governance
  • H.406 - An act relating to the renewal of tax liens
  • H.438 - An act relating to reducing the capital gains exclusion
  • H.442 - An act relating to trustee process of income tax refunds and renter rebates
  • H.472 - An act relating to an occupancy fee
  • H.480 - An act relating to making miscellaneous technical and other amendments to education laws
  • H.481 - An act relating to supporting health care initiatives and establishing payroll and sugar-sweetened beverage taxes
  • H.488 - An act relating to the State’s Transportation Program and miscellaneous changes to laws related to transportation
  • H.489 - An act relating to revenue
  • H.497 - An act relating to approval of amendments to the charter of the Town of Colchester
  • H.516 - An act relating to the transfer of assets and debt belonging to merging school districts
  • H.519 - An act relating to approval of the adoption and codification of the charter of the Town of Brandon
  • H.544 - An act relating to the powers of the boards of abatement
  • H.552 - An act relating to threatened and endangered species
  • H.556 - An act relating to raising the education spending thresholds for fiscal year 2017
  • H.562 - An act relating to professions and occupations regulated by the Office of Professional Regulation and to the review of professional regulation
  • H.570 - An act relating to hunting, fishing, and trapping
  • H.571 - An act relating to driver’s license suspensions and judicial, criminal justice, and insurance topics
  • H.602 - An act relating to application of the solid waste franchise tax
  • H.624 - An act relating to the appraisal of open land under the Use Value Appraisal Program
  • H.647 - An act relating to excluded from household income amounts earned by an adult child who lived in the household for less than six months
  • H.649 - An act relating to exempting from the statewide education property tax a property owner who is 80 years of age or older, has owned and resided in the home for 50 years or more, and has an income of $25,000.00 or less
  • H.652 - An act relating to school district reporting to the Agency of Education
  • H.656 - An act relating to creating an education tax that is adjusted by income for all taxpayers
  • H.707 - An act relating to excluding reinvested capital gains from Vermont’s income tax
  • H.718 - An act relating to an aggregate common level of appraisal
  • H.729 - An act relating to a tax deduction for education loan payments
  • H.735 - An act relating to creating an exemption from the statewide education property tax for certain municipally owned parking areas
  • H.753 - An act relating to increasing use tax compliance
  • H.756 - An act relating to reducing filing frequency for small businesses filing taxes on malt and vinous beverages, taxes on spirits and fortified wines, and meals and rooms taxes
  • H.806 - An act relating to military pension income tax exemption and the Office of Veterans Affairs
  • H.833 - An act relating to valuing property subject to a use value appraisal at 25 percent of its fair market value
  • H.852 - An act relating to State lands
  • H.853 - An act relating to setting the nonresidential property tax rate, the property dollar equivalent yield, and the income dollar equivalent yield for fiscal year 2017, and other education changes
  • H.864 - An act relating to agricultural exemption from Vermont’s sales and use tax
  • H.865 - An act relating to promoting workforce housing
  • H.868 - An act relating to miscellaneous economic development provisions
  • H.870 - An act relating to telecommunications
  • H.871 - An act relating to approval of amendments to the charter of the City of Montpelier
  • H.873 - An act relating to making miscellaneous tax changes
  • H.879 - An act relating to the Health Care Fund contribution assessment and the taxation of e-cigarettes
  • H.872 Fee Bill
  • S.20 - An act relating to establishing and regulating dental therapists
  • S.41 - An act relating to developing a strategy for evaluating the effectiveness of individual tax expenditures
  • S.55 - An act relating to Vermont’s estate tax
  • S.138 - An act relating to promoting economic development
  • S.139 - An act relating to health care
  • S.223 - An act relating to regulating fantasy sports contests
  • S.225 - An act relating to miscellaneous changes to laws related to motor vehicles
  • S.233 - An act relating to amending Act 46
  • S.241 - An act relating to regulation of marijuana
  • S.243 - An act relating to combating opioid abuse in Vermont
  • S.250 - An act relating to alcoholic beverages
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  • Rep. Janet Ancel, Chair
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