2019-2020 Session
Change SessionSenator Becca Balint
- District
- Windham District
- Party
- Democrat
- Seat Number
- 17
- bbalint@leg.state.vt.us
- Phone
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- Home Address
- 115 State St, Montpelier, VT 05633
- Committees
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- Senate Committee on Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs
- Senate Committee on Finance
- Senate Rules Committee
- Senate Sexual Harassment Panel, Chair
- Joint Rules
- Legislative Committee on Judicial Rules
- Adverse Childhood Experiences Working Group
- PEG Access Study Committee, Chair
- Senate Workgroup on Lessons Learned, Co-Chair
- Review Board on Retail Sales of Electric Energy, ex officio
- Vermont State Infrastructure Bank Board
- Biography
- REBECCA A. BALINT of Brattleboro, Windham County, Democrat, was born in a US Army hospital in Heidelberg, Germany where her dad was stationed. She was raised predominantly in upstate New York and attended public schools in Peekskill. She received her BA from Smith College in Northampton, MA, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Rebecca earned her masters in education from Harvard University in 1995 and her MA in history from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2001. Her career in education has been spent teaching in public and private schools in New England, as well as at the Community College of Vermont. She first moved to Vermont in 1994 to teach rock climbing at the Farm and Wilderness Foundation in Plymouth and relocated permanently to Vermont in 1997. During her first term Rebecca served on the Institutions Committee and the Economic Development and Housing Committee, as well as the Judicial Rules Committee. During her 2nd term she was made vice chair of the Education Committee, and continued to serve on the Economic Development Committee. She was elected to the position of Senate Majority Leader and was also appointed Chair of the Senate Sexual Harassment Prevention Panel. In her 3rd term she was re-elected to the position of Senate Majority Leader. When she's not running around the statehouse, she's running in Hubbard Park. Rebecca lives in Brattleboro with her wife, attorney Elizabeth R. Wohl and their two children.
Bills and Resolutions Sponsored by Senator Balint
Regular Session 2019-2020
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Roll Call Votes by Senator Balint
Regular Session 2019-2020
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