republic-os/legislation/us/states/vt/2021-2022/s-184.md

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Bill	An act relating to defense of others and justifiable homicide	An act relating to defense of others and justifiable homicide	us/states/vt	Vermont General Assembly	2021-2022	S 184	Vermont S 184 (2021-2022)	bill		enacted	Joseph Benning Richard Sears	5	23	0	2022-01-04	2022-04-21	openstates	ocd-bill/19f9094b-3877-4c13-9341-8b9aa6b6929a	http://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/loadBillDetailedStatus/2022/1226	2564dff0f3bc316499b2da2449e895dbd748f57f7542432be9e7df48f21766f8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-vt

Vermont S 184 (2021-2022) — An act relating to defense of others and justifiable homicide

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

• Joseph Benning — primary (person)
• Richard Sears — primary (person)
• Alice Nitka — cosponsor (person)
• Andrew Perchlik — cosponsor (person)
• Ann Cummings — cosponsor (person)
• Brian Collamore — cosponsor (person)
• Corey Parent — cosponsor (person)
• Jeanette White — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua Terenzini — cosponsor (person)
• Randolph Brock — cosponsor (person)
• Richard McCormack — cosponsor (person)
• Richard Westman — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Starr — cosponsor (person)
• Russell Ingalls — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas Chittenden — cosponsor (person)
• Virginia Lyons — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-04 Read 1st time & referred to Committee on Judiciary introduction
• 2022-02-02 Entered on Notice Calendar
• 2022-02-02 Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Judiciary committee-passage
• 2022-02-03 New Business/Second Reading reading-2
• 2022-02-03 Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Judiciary committee-passage
• 2022-02-03 Read 2nd time, reported favorably with recommendation of amendment by Senator Benning for Committee on Judiciary committee-passage-favorable, reading-2
• 2022-02-03 Recommendation of amendment agreed to
• 2022-02-03 3rd reading ordered
• 2022-02-04 New Business/Third Reading reading-3
• 2022-02-04 Read 3rd time & passed reading-3
• 2022-02-09 Read First Time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary introduction
• 2022-03-31 Notice Calendar: Favorable
• 2022-04-05 Action Calendar: Favorable
• 2022-04-05 Read Second time reading-2
• 2022-04-05 Rep. Grad of Moretown reported for the Committee on Judiciary
• 2022-04-05 Third Reading ordered reading-3
• 2022-04-06 Action Calendar: Third reading reading-3
• 2022-04-06 Read Third time and passed in concurrence reading-3
• 2022-04-08 House message: House passed bill in concurrence
• 2022-04-08 As passed by Senate and House passage
• 2022-04-15 Delivered to Governor on April 15, 2022 executive-receipt
• 2022-04-21 Signed by Governor on April 21, 2022 executive-signature
• 2022-04-21 Senate Message, signed by Governor April 21, 2022 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/19f9094b-3877-4c13-9341-8b9aa6b6929a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Vermont legislature records).