Senator • Democrat
Richard Sears
Vermont • District SD-BEN
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Activity Summary
Bills Sponsored
47
Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):
100% Positive
Voting Pattern
Nay: 23
Other: 9
Yea: 124
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Sponsored Bills
VT S0259•Passed
An act relating to climate change cost recovery
Co-Sponsor
VT S0195•Passed
An act relating to how a defendant’s criminal record is considered in imposing conditions of release
Co-Sponsor
VT S0192•Passed
An act relating to civil commitment procedures at a secure residential recovery facility and a psychiatric residential treatment facility for youth and civil commitment procedures for individuals with an intellectual disability
Co-Sponsor
VT S0209•Passed
An act relating to prohibiting unserialized firearms and unserialized firearms frames and receivers
Primary Sponsor
VT S0058•Passed
An act relating to public safety
Primary Sponsor
VT S0072•Introduced
An act relating to lifting the potency limits on concentrated cannabis products
Primary Sponsor
VT S0278•Passed
An act relating to prohibiting a comparative negligence defense in an action for a negligence claim relating to a sexual act or sexual conduct
Co-Sponsor
VT S0285•Engrossed
An act relating to law enforcement interrogation policies
Primary Sponsor
VT S0150•Engrossed
An act relating to automobile insurance
Primary Sponsor
VT S0261•Introduced
An act relating to liability for the release of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances
Co-Sponsor
VT S0222•Introduced
An act relating to sealing records of nonviolent offenses
Primary Sponsor
VT S0056•Engrossed
An act relating to child care and early childhood education
Co-Sponsor
VT S0006•Vetoed
An act relating to law enforcement interrogation policies
Primary Sponsor
VT S0091•Passed
An act relating to competency to stand trial and insanity as a defense
Co-Sponsor
VT S0089•Passed
An act relating to establishing a forensic facility
Co-Sponsor
VT S0047•Passed
An act relating to the transport of individuals requiring psychiatric care
Co-Sponsor
VT S0033•Passed
An act relating to miscellaneous judiciary procedures
Primary Sponsor
VT S0036•Passed
An act relating to crimes against health care workers at hospitals and against emergency medical treatment providers
Primary Sponsor
VT S0017•Passed
An act relating to sheriff reforms
Primary Sponsor
VT S0014•Passed
An act relating to a report on criminal justice-related investments and trends
Primary Sponsor
VT S0004•Passed
An act relating to reducing crimes of violence associated with juveniles and dangerous weapons
Primary Sponsor
VT S0037•Passed
An act relating to access to legally protected health care activity and regulation of health care providers
Co-Sponsor
VT S0152•Introduced
An act relating to public access to trials
Primary Sponsor
VT S0149•Introduced
An act relating to dram shop liability insurance
Primary Sponsor
VT S0104•Engrossed
An act relating to designating August 31 as Overdose Awareness Day
Co-Sponsor
VT S0105•Introduced
An act relating to sports wagering
Primary Sponsor
VT S0075•Introduced
An act relating to civilian oversight of law enforcement
Primary Sponsor
VT S0071•Introduced
An act relating to miscellaneous amendments to the adult-use and medical cannabis programs
Primary Sponsor
VT S0016•Introduced
An act relating to repealing the exception for clergy to report child abuse and neglect
Primary Sponsor
VT S0015•Introduced
An act relating to establishing presumptive probation for nonviolent crimes
Primary Sponsor
VT S0001•Introduced
An act relating to Act 250 jurisdiction over aircraft hangars
Primary Sponsor
VT S0254•Passed
An act relating to maintaining records of judgments and settlements paid by law enforcement agencies and a legal analysis of qualified immunity
Primary Sponsor
VT S0188•Passed
An act relating to regulating licensed small cannabis cultivation as farming
Primary Sponsor
VT S0127•Passed
An act relating to clarifying community supervision furlough appeals and the powers of the Corrections Monitoring Commission
Primary Sponsor
VT S0011•Passed
An act relating to economic and workforce development
Primary Sponsor
VT S0265•Passed
An act relating to expanding criminal threatening to include threats to third persons
Co-Sponsor
VT S0072•Passed
An act relating to the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children
Co-Sponsor
VT S0183•Passed
An act relating to midpoint probation review
Primary Sponsor
VT S0184•Passed
An act relating to defense of others and justifiable homicide
Co-Sponsor
VT S0113•Passed
An act relating to establishing a cause of action for medical monitoring expenses
Primary Sponsor
VT S0178•Engrossed
An act relating to supermajority verdicts in civil trials
Primary Sponsor
VT S0243•Introduced
An act relating to implementation of an unused prescription drug repository program
Co-Sponsor
VT S0185•Introduced
An act relating to miscellaneous cannabis establishment procedures
Primary Sponsor
VT S0186•Introduced
An act relating to the Medical Cannabis Registry
Primary Sponsor
VT S0187•Introduced
An act relating to the mental state required for prosecution of criminal drug offenses and penalties for dispensing or selling fentanyl
Primary Sponsor
VT S0189•Introduced
An act relating to the status of Holocaust education in public schools
Co-Sponsor
VT S0153•Introduced
An act relating to eliminating the religious exemption for required immunizations
Co-Sponsor
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