2020 Legislation Session Survey

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* 1. What is your name?

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* 2. What town do you reside in:

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* 3. What is your age?

18 to 24

25 to 34

35 to 44

45 to 54

55 to 64

65 to 74

75 or older

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* 4. Which of the following categories best describes your employment status?

Employed, working full-time

Employed, working part-time

Not employed, looking for work

Not employed, NOT looking for work

Retired

Disabled, not able to work

Student

Other (please specify)

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* 5. What is your living situation?

Renter

Homeowner

Second homeowner

Student

Other (please specify)

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* 6. What legislative issues are most important to you? Please rank the issues from 1 through 15 according to how important the issues are to you with 1 being the most important and 15 being the least important.

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* 7. Are there any other issues that the Legislature should address in 2020? Please describe.

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* 8. Are there issues that the Legislature should not address in 2020? Please describe.

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* 9. Do you think increasing Vermont's minimum wage will benefit the economy in our area?

Yes

Other (please specify)

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* 10. If paid family and medical leave legislation becomes law, do you think this is a benefit you would use?

Yes

Other (please specify)

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* 11. The Vermont Climate Solutions Caucus (a group of legislators) and other climate change advocates are advocating that the legislature pass several pieces of climate change legislation. Below are brief descriptions of those bills. Check all climate change legislation you would support?

Global Warming Solutions Act - This bill would make Vermont's existing climate goals binding requirements and mandate that the State take measurable steps to meet those requirements. This would set Vermont on a path towards a 28% reduction in climate pollution by 2025 (the goals the U.S. committed to as part of the Paris Climate Accord) and towards a target of net zero by 2050.

100 % Renewable Electricity Standard - Currently, Vermont requires its utilities to supply 75% of their electricity renewably by 2032. This proposal would (1) establish a 100% renewable electricity requirement by 2030, (2) significantly increase the requirement for newly built renewable projects (especially those built in Vermont) beyond the 10% currently required by 2032 and (3) Expand the efficiency and electrification work being done by Efficiency Vermont and our other utilities, to provide far more help to Vermonters in cutting their fossil fuel use for heating and transportation.

Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) - Vermont has been working with 11 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and Washington, DC on a regional approach to reduce Green House Gas emissions from the transportation sector through a cap-and-invest program in which fuel suppliers would be required to buy carbon allowances through an auction system. TCI is aimed at designing a program that reduces carbon pollution from transportation – our most polluting sector – and using the proceeds raised to help people invest in more diverse transportation options, such as electric vehicles, bike and pedestrian infrastructure, transit, affordable housing in community centers and far more. The General Assembly authorized the Agency of Natural Resources to participate in the planning of TCI in the 2019 Transportation Bill. Now that the planning of TCI is nearing completion, the General Assembly and legislatures in other states will have to pass enabling legislation in 2020 to allow TCI to become operational in 2021.

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* 12. As mandated by the U.S. Constitution, every ten years the U.S. Census Bureau must conduct a confidential count of all people residing in the United States. The results of the Census are used to determine the number of seats for each state in the U.S. House of Representatives, the legislative districts within states (State Senators and Representatives) and the amount of federal taxpayer dollars returned to states through federal grants and programs. Ensuring a complete count of our population is essential for the fair representation of Vermonters at all levels of government.

Would you support local efforts to identifying barriers to full participation in the 2020 Census and developing an outreach action plan to overcome those barriers to ensure as complete a count as possible of Vermont’s population in the 2020 Census?

Yes