Reparations · State · VT

Vermont enacts bill on recommendations of Post-Adjudication Reparative Program Working Group

Why this rating

The provided material gives only the bill's title, committee referral (Corrections and Institutions, then Judiciary), and procedural history — it contains no bill text describing the substantive content of the 'reparative program' at issue, no mention of Freedmen, Black Americans, race, lineage, or slavery, and no data on who the program targets or benefits. 'Reparative' in a Corrections and Institutions context commonly refers to restorative-justice/victim-offender programs rather than lineage-based slavery reparations, but this cannot be confirmed or ruled out from the material given. Because no lineage-specific mechanism is stated or evidenced, impact_direction is recorded as 0 (genuinely unclear/unsigned) rather than inferred. The bill has fully completed the legislative process and was signed into law April 20, 2026, so impact_force is 1.00 — reflecting that whatever the law does, it is now fully in effect, even though what it does to Freedmen specifically cannot be determined from this record.

Summary

Vermont H.0540, referred to the House Committee on Corrections and Institutions, addresses recommendations from a 'Post-Adjudication Reparative Program Working Group.' The bill passed the House on February 6, 2026, passed the Senate in concurrence on April 3, 2026, was delivered to the Governor on April 14, 2026, and was signed into law on April 20, 2026.

Sources

• An act relating to the recommendations of the Post-Adjudication Reparative Program Working Group — bill text · primary · legiscan

Rated under the published impact rubric. Direction records what a measure would do if fully effective; force records how far it has actually travelled. Neither is inferred — both trace to the sources above. Think something here is wrong? Tell us and we will log the correction.

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