• Act 250, Vermont's Land Use and Development Act, 10 V.S.A. § 6001 et seq., is a law passed in 1970 by the Vermont legislature designed to mitigate the...
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    The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was a law passed by the 31st United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850...
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  • many small communities. As a result of Act 250, Vermont was the last state to get a Wal-Mart. As a result of Act 250, there is only one trash disposal site...
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    environment and many small communities significantly. As a result of Act 250, Vermont was the last state to get a Walmart (there are now six Walmarts in...
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  • Green Up Day (category Organizations based in Vermont)
    All towns have a coordinator who can be contacted with questions. Act 250 (Vermont law) Earth Day National Cleanup Day Hill, Will (May 5, 2017). "Letter:...
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    economic problems with restrained development under the state's Act 250 environmental law. This statute controlled growth by establishing environmental...
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    82nd governor of Vermont since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he was a representative for the Washington District in the Vermont Senate from 2001...
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    Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas, Vermont and Wyoming that sought to strike down the Brady Act as unconstitutional. These cases wound their...
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  • Judiciary of Vermont is the state court system of Vermont, charged with Vermont law. The Vermont courts are established in the Vermont Constitution in...
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  • 12, 2018). "Vermont Governor Signs State's First Significant Gun-Control Laws". National Review. Retrieved April 13, 2018. "No. 45. An act relating to...
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  • California End of Life Option Act is a law enacted in June 2016 by the California State Legislature which allows terminally ill adult residents in the...
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    Arthur Gibb (category Republican Party Vermont state senators)
    noted conservationist, Gibb was one of the primary architects behind Act 250, Vermont's landmark environmental legislation. Gibb was born in Brooklyn, New...
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  • protection, law enforcement requirements, anti-fraud measures, or individual party consent. The federal Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979...
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    Bernie Sanders (category 20th-century Vermont politicians)
    American politician and activist who is the senior United States senator from Vermont. Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history...
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    The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) is a United States federal law which aims to reduce the federal government budget deficit, lower prescription...
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  • overlap with other districts at the high school level. There are 250 public schools in Vermont. This includes 28 union high schools. Union high schools are...
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    The Mann Act, previously called the White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910, is a United States federal law, passed June 25, 1910 (ch. 395, 36 Stat. 825; codified...
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  • The University of Vermont (UVM), officially titled as University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a public land-grant research university...
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  • Robert A. Bloomer (category People from Proctor, Vermont)
    of Vermont in 1943 and served as a pilot in the Eighth Air Force of the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. In 1947 Bloomer received his law degree...
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    Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. Together with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 amendment,...
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  • Justin Brande (category Environment of Vermont)
    support of passage of Vermont Act 250, the state's land use and development law. Vermont's state legislature passed the act into law in 1970. Describing...
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    Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) was a United States proposed federal online privacy bill that, if enacted into law, would have regulated how organizations...
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    The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), (H.R. 3684) is a United States federal statute...
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  • Helmet Law Exemptions". Helmets.org. 2015-04-28. Archived from the original on 2016-08-02. Retrieved 2016-09-16. "Vermont Laws". Legislature.vermont.gov...
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    Vincent Illuzzi (category Vermont Law and Graduate School alumni)
    which became Act 78 of 2010. This law appropriated $8.665 million to build on the work in Act 54 of 2009. It included funding for: the Vermont Economic Development...
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  • Retrieved April 1, 2012. Wing, Nicholas (May 26, 2011). "Vermont Single-Payer Health Care Law Signed By Governor". The Huffington Post. Archived from the...
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    George Aiken (category People from Dummerston, Vermont)
    flood control in Vermont. As a Northeastern Republican in the Senate, he was one of four Republican cosponsors of the Full Employment Act of 1946. Aiken...
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    because of repeal of the ban. Gates encouraged Congress to act quickly to repeal the law so that the military could carefully adjust rather than face...
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    The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA /ˈfɔɪjə/ FOY-yə), 5 U.S.C. § 552, is the United States federal freedom of information law that requires the full or...
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    of expression, independence of the judiciary, rule of law. A famous example is the Enabling Act of 1933, which lawfully ended democracy in Weimar Germany...
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