republic-os/legislation/us/states/vt/2017-2018/h-589.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	An act relating to the reasonable and prudent parent standard	An act relating to the reasonable and prudent parent standard	us/states/vt	Vermont General Assembly	2017-2018	H. 589	Vermont H. 589 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	Ann Pugh Janssen Willhoit Maxine Grad	5	21	0	2018-01-09	2018-04-20	openstates	ocd-bill/42600d9c-c74f-467d-aef7-02a64dce4b43	http://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/loadBillDetailedStatus/2018/2027	bb76d139dfc6f7ef93eb42e148870ae41938e269e4424a258593f271168f2f71	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-vt

Vermont H. 589 (2017-2018) — An act relating to the reasonable and prudent parent standard

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. As Introduced (filed) — source
2. Act Summary (committee substitute) — source
3. As Enacted (committee substitute) — source
4. Official (committee substitute) — source
5. Unofficial (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Ann Pugh — primary (person)
• Janssen Willhoit — primary (person)
• Maxine Grad — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2018-01-09 Read First Time and Referred to the Committee on Human Services
• 2018-01-19 Rep. Pugh of South Burlington moved to suspend rules and take up bill for immediate consideration
• 2018-01-19 Rep. Pugh of South Burlington moved to commit bill to the committee on Judiciary which was agreed to.
• 2018-02-06 Read Second Time
• 2018-02-06 Rep. Troiano of Stannard reported for the committee on Human Services
• 2018-02-06 Rep. Willhoit of St. Johnsbury reported for the committee on Judiciary
• 2018-02-06 Recommendation of Amendment of the Committee on Judiciary agreed to
• 2018-02-06 Third Reading Ordered
• 2018-02-07 Read Third time
• 2018-02-07 Passed passage
• 2018-02-09 Read 1st time & referred to Committee on Judiciary introduction
• 2018-03-21 Committee on Judiciary relieved; bill committed to Committee on Health and Welfare on motion of Senator Sears
• 2018-04-03 Entered on Notice Calendar
• 2018-04-03 Favorable report by Committee on Health and Welfare
• 2018-04-04 New Business/Second Reading
• 2018-04-04 Favorable report by Committee on Health and Welfare
• 2018-04-04 Reported favorably by Senator Ingram for Committee on Health and Welfare, read 2nd time and 3rd reading ordered committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-04-05 New Business/Third Reading
• 2018-04-05 Read 3rd time & passed in concurrence passage
• 2018-04-06 Senate Message, Passed in Concurrence passage
• 2018-04-20 Signed by Governor on April 20, 2018 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/42600d9c-c74f-467d-aef7-02a64dce4b43. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Vermont legislature records).