VermontVermont schools limit immigration enforcement and protect student information
Vermont schools provide immigration resources and limit when they collect students' immigration or citizenship status; school leaders must check identification and a judicial warrant before nonpublic access.
What it does
Schools must provide students with immigration resources. They may collect a student's immigration or citizenship status only when required by law.
School leaders must keep immigration-related officers out of nonpublic school areas unless the officers show identification and present a judicial warrant.
The Agency of Education must prepare a model policy and recommend procedures. Each school must adopt that policy or make its own policy that meets the law's requirements by the 2027–2028 school year.
Argument forStudents could have more privacy because schools may collect immigration or citizenship status only when required by law, and officers need identification and a judicial warrant for nonpublic access.
Argument againstSchools may need staff time to adopt the state model or create their own policy by the 2027–2028 school year.
More detail
The law requires schools to provide students with immigration resources and limits when they may collect students' immigration or citizenship status. These requirements apply to Vermont schools and their students. Schools may collect a student's immigration or citizenship status only when required by law.
Superintendents and school heads must keep immigration-related officers out of nonpublic school areas unless the officers show official identification and present a judicial warrant. This applies when an officer comes to a school on an immigration-related matter. The officer must show official identification and present a judicial warrant before entering.
The Agency of Education must develop a model policy and recommend procedures to help schools meet the law's requirements. The Agency of Education develops the model policy and recommended procedures; Vermont schools must adopt or develop a policy. Each school must adopt the model policy or develop its own policy that meets the law's requirements. Schools must adopt the model policy or develop a compliant policy by the 2027–2028 school year.
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- Introduced
- Passed 1st Chamber
- Passed 2nd Chamber
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
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History
- 2026
- May 29Senate Message: Signed by Governor Phil Scott June 8, 2026Latest
- May 29Signed by Governor Phil Scott on June 8, 2026Became Law
- May 29Delivered to Governor on June 2, 2026To Governor
- May 21As passed by Senate and HouseMajor
- May 21House message: House concurred in Senate proposal of amendment to House proposal of amendmentMinor
- May 19Senate proposal of amendment to House proposal of amendment concurred inMinor
- May 19Action Calendar: Unfinished Business
- May 18Action Calendar: Senate Proposal of Amendment to House Proposal of AmendmentMinor
- May 15Notice Calendar: Senate Proposal of Amendment to House Proposal of AmendmentMinor
- May 14Senate Message: House proposal of amendment concurred in with further proposal of amendment theretoMinor
- May 13House proposal of amendment concurred in with further proposal of amendment as moved by Senator(s) Ram HinsdaleMinor
- May 13House proposal of amendment; textMinor
- May 13Proposal of amendment to be offered by Senator(s) Ram HinsdaleMinor
- May 13Unfinished Business/House Proposal of AmendmentMinor
- May 12Unfinished Business/House Proposal of AmendmentMinor
- May 8Unfinished Business/House Proposal of AmendmentMinor
- May 7Unfinished Business/House Proposal of AmendmentMinor
- May 6House proposal of amendmentMinor
- May 5House proposal of amendmentMinor
- May 5Entered on Notice Calendar
- May 1House message: House passed bill in concurrence with proposal(s) of amendment
- Apr 30Read third time and passed in concurrence with proposal of amendmentPassed 2nd Chamber
- Apr 30Action Calendar: Third ReadingMinor
- Apr 29Third Reading orderedMinor
- Apr 29Report of Committee on Education agreed to
- Apr 29Rep. Brady of Williston reported for the Committee on Education
- Apr 29Read second timeMinor
- Apr 29Action Calendar: Favorable with Amendment
- Apr 28Notice Calendar: Favorable with Amendment
- Mar 18Read first time and referred to the Committee on EducationMinor
- Mar 13Read 3rd time & passedPassed 1st Chamber
- Mar 13Pending third reading, bill amended as moved by Senator(s) Ram HinsdaleMinor
- Mar 13New Business/Third ReadingMinor
- Mar 123rd reading ordered
- Vote recorded Recommendation of amendment by Committee on Education agreed to on roll call, requested by Senator Ram Hinsdale, Passed -- Needed 14 of 28 to Pass -- Yeas = 26, Nays = 2. Result: pass.Upper
- Mar 12Roll Call, Requested by Sen. Ram Hinsdale
- Mar 12Recommendation of amendment by Committee on Education agreed to on roll call, requested by Senator Ram Hinsdale, Passed -- Needed 14 of 28 to Pass -- Yeas = 26, Nays = 2
- Mar 12Read 2nd time, reported favorably with recommendation of amendment by Senator Ram Hinsdale for Committee on EducationMinor
- Mar 12Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on EducationMinor
- Mar 12New Business/Second ReadingMinor
- Mar 11Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on EducationMinor
- Mar 11Second ReadingMinor
- Mar 11Entered on Notice Calendar
- Jan 9Read 1st time & referred to Committee on EducationIntroduced
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