Other Significant Legislative Actions
Several bills did not fit neatly into the major policy categories but still carried significant policy weight. These included measures addressing event ticketing, contractor fraud, firearms relinquishment procedures and homelessness response.
H.512 – Event Ticketing
Approved by the Governor on May 26, 2026, H.512 regulates Vermont’s event ticketing market to protect consumers, artists, venues, and nonprofit presenters. The law limits ticket resale prices to no more than 110 percent of face value, bans speculative ticket sales by sellers who do not actually possess the tickets, and prohibits deceptive practices such as misleading URLs or false suggestions of affiliation with a venue, performer, or event sponsor. The bill was supported by arts and venue advocates as a way to curb predatory resale practices while preserving fair access to live events.
H.937 – Judiciary Committee’s Annual Miscellaneous Bill
H.937 is the Judiciary Committee’s annual miscellaneous bill, making a variety of updates to court operations, victim services, criminal justice procedures, property law, and estate planning. The bill expands remote access to certain nonconfidential court records for licensed Vermont attorneys, modifies restitution provisions, clarifies rules governing joint property ownership and survivorship interests, preserves creditor protections for certain trust arrangements, and makes numerous technical corrections to judicial procedures.
The bill also incorporates contractor fraud provisions originally passed in S.183, which was later vetoed due to a drafting error. It expands Vermont’s home improvement and land improvement fraud law to cover written and oral contracts, agreements, and change orders, and clarifies that fraud requires knowing misconduct—such as knowingly failing to perform work, refund payments, follow an agreed completion plan, or making false promises or misrepresentations to induce a customer to enter or modify an agreement. The changes strengthen protections against fraudulent contractor practices while helping distinguish criminal fraud from ordinary contract disputes or project failures.
H.606 – Firearms Relinquishment Procedures
H.606 establishes more detailed procedures governing the surrender, storage, transfer, and return of firearms when an individual becomes prohibited from possessing them under Vermont law. The bill primarily addresses individuals subject to Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs), Relief from Abuse (RFA) orders, and certain mental health-related firearm prohibitions, specifying how firearms must be relinquished, who may take possession of them, how compliance is documented, and the process for their return when the prohibition ends. Throughout the session, lawmakers, prosecutors, defense attorneys, law enforcement officials, and victim advocates focused on implementation, enforceability, due process protections, and practical procedures for the lawful return of firearms. The final bill is considerably narrower than the version introduced at the beginning of the session, with a number of broader firearm policy proposals ultimately excluded or moved to separate legislation that did not advance.
