The week of March 16th, schools and colleges across the state closed, non-essential businesses shuttered, the healthcare system prepared for a wave of COVID cases, and tens of thousands of Vermonters lost their jobs. Over a two-week period, the VT House rewrote its Rules to allow for meeting and voting during the declared public health emergency. Attending to heightened cybersecurity concerns, we figured out how to hold publicly accessible committee hearings and full-House de

Vermont’s 2020 legislative session has been one for the record books. Back when we convened in January, no one would have guessed that the session would stretch into peak foliage season. Certainly no one could have envisioned a shuttered State House with legislators working remotely by Zoom from kitchen tables and home offices across Vermont. Not since 1857, when the second Vermont State House was destroyed by fire, has the General Assembly been forced to conduct business out