Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
4 instruments in Vermont. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
▲Expands benefitsOpens the National Guard tuition benefit to graduate degrees and to members who already hold a bachelor's.
Amended 16 V.S.A. 2857 so that an eligible enrollment reaches a program leading to a graduate degree, and repealed subdivision (c)(1)(D), which had excluded any member who had previously earned an undergraduate bachelor’s degree. A Guard member with a bachelor’s degree was shut out before June 27, 2025 and can now use the benefit for a master’s. Accounts describing the program as undergraduate-only, including the federal Army benefits library entry for Vermont, describe the earlier version.
▲Expands benefitsExcludes all military retirement income up to $125,000 of AGI and adds a $250 refundable veteran credit.
Rewrote 32 V.S.A. 5830e(d) so that all federally taxable military retirement and survivor benefit income is excluded at a federal AGI of $125,000 or less for any filing status, phasing out at $175,000. The struck language had routed military retirement through the Civil Service Retirement System treatment, capping it at $10,000 and forcing an election against the Social Security exclusion; subsection (e)(2) now lets a taxpayer take the military exclusion in addition. Section 5 added 32 V.S.A. 5830g, a $250 refundable credit for a resident who has a discharge record verifying service in the uniformed services, at an AGI of $25,000 or less. The Office of Veterans Affairs tax page still tells veterans they must choose between Social Security and military retirement, and does not mention the credit at all.
▲Expands benefitsMakes the veterans property tax exemption a one-time filing where the disability is permanent.
Amended 32 V.S.A. 3802(11) so that an application based upon permanent disability is only required to be filed with the Office of Veterans Affairs before May 1 of the first year for which the exemption is sought, after which the exemption remains on the grand list until title to the property is transferred. Guidance written before June 2024, including the federal Army benefits library entry for Vermont, still tells veterans to re-file every year. The Office of Veterans Affairs describes the once-only rule as applying to veterans deemed totally and permanently disabled, which is narrower than the statute’s "permanent disability".
▲Expands benefitsRemoves the 15-day cap on military leave and extends USERRA protections to State active duty.
Struck the 15 days in any calendar year limit from 21 V.S.A. 491 and the separate reinstatement sentence with it, leaving an uncapped right to a leave of absence for drill, training, or other temporary duty under state or federal orders. It also entitled a member ordered to State active duty to the rights and protections of USERRA, which federal law does not reach, and added the 21 V.S.A. 492(c) health insurance continuation under which the State pays the employer’s premium share past 30 days. The federal Army benefits library entry for Vermont still reports the repealed 15-day rule and the repealed reinstatement sentence as current law.
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