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The Senate Committee on Judiciary has jurisdiction over matters relating to judicial and legal affairs; and motor vehicle and homeowner liability insurance.

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  • H.18 - An act relating to sexual exploitation of children and limited immunity from liability for a person reporting a crime.
  • H.20 - An act relating to pretrial risk assessments and pretrial services
  • H.89 - An act relating to limiting liability for agritourism
  • H.128 - An act relating to limiting criminal defenses based on victim identity
  • H.133 - An act relating to emergency relief from abuse orders and relinquishment of firearms
  • H.145 - An act relating to amending the standards for law enforcement use of force
  • H.183 - An act relating to sexual violence
  • H.195 - An act relating to use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement in cases involving sexual exploitation of children
  • H.199 - An act relating to validating legal instruments used in connection with the conveyance of real estate
  • H.225 - An act relating to possession of a therapeutic dosage of buprenorphine
  • H.317 - An act relating to establishing the Bureau of Racial Justice Statistics and the Bureau of Racial Justice Statistics Advisory Panel
  • H.399 - An act relating to incarceration terms for criminal defendants who are primary caretakers of dependent children
  • H.428 - An act relating to hate-motivated crimes and misconduct
  • H.505 - An act relating to the creation of the Drug Use Standards Advisory Board within the Vermont Sentencing Commission
  • H.533 - An act relating to forfeited property disposition and a study assessing civil and criminal seizure and forfeiture of property in drug-related offenses
  • H.534 - An act relating to expanding eligibility for expungement and sealing of criminal history records for nonviolent offenses
  • H.546 - An act relating to racial justice statistics
  • H.548 - An act relating to miscellaneous cannabis establishment procedures
  • H.551 - An act relating to prohibiting racially and religiously restrictive covenants in deeds
  • H.553 - An act relating to eligibility of domestic partners for reimbursement from the Victims Compensation Program
  • H.629 - An act relating to access to adoption records
  • H.635 - An act relating to secondary enforcement of minor traffic offenses
  • H.729 - An act relating to miscellaneous judiciary procedures
  • S.3 - An act relating to competency to stand trial and insanity as a defense
  • S.4 - An act relating to procedures involving firearms
  • S.7 - An act relating to expanding access to expungement and sealing of criminal history records
  • S.11 - An act relating to economic and workforce development
  • S.18 - An act relating to limiting earned good time sentence reductions for offenders convicted of certain crimes
  • S.25 - An act relating to miscellaneous cannabis regulation procedures
  • S.30 - An act relating to prohibiting possession of firearms within hospital buildings
  • S.39 - An act relating to the Judicial Branch fee report and electronic filing fees
  • S.45 - An act relating to earned discharge from probation
  • S.97 - An act relating to miscellaneous judiciary procedures
  • S.99 - An act relating to repealing the statute of limitations for civil actions based on childhood physical abuse
  • S.103 - An act relating to immunity from liability for a person reporting a crime
  • S.108 - An act relating to establishing the Bureau of Racial Justice Statistics and the Bureau of Racial Justice Statistics Advisory Panel
  • S.113 - An act relating to establishing a cause of action for medical monitoring expenses
  • S.127 - An act relating to clarifying community supervision furlough appeals and the powers of the Corrections Monitoring Commission
  • S.133 - An act relating to authorizing the Probate Division to reopen guardianship proceedings to correct or remedy manifest injustice
  • S.140 - An act relating to prohibiting civil arrests at courthouses
  • S.163 - An act relating to State court petitions for vulnerable noncitizen youth
  • S.166 - An act relating to utility construction worksites and consumer protection
  • S.178 - An act relating to supermajority verdicts in civil trials
  • S.179 - An act relating to judicial nominations and appointments
  • S.180 - An act relating to the aggregate value of stolen property in certain crimes
  • S.183 - An act relating to midpoint probation review
  • S.184 - An act relating to defense of others and justifiable homicide
  • S.224 - An act relating to juvenile proceedings
  • S.228 - An act relating to prohibiting no-knock warrants
  • S.254 - An act relating to maintaining records of judgments and settlements paid by law enforcement agencies and a legal analysis of qualified immunity
  • S.265 - An act relating to expanding criminal threatening to include threats to third persons
  • S.268 - An act relating to the right to farm
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