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Read. Follow. Verify.Vermont requires Division of Fire Safety to adopt universal design residential building codes and ties state housing funds to compliance
Last action · March 20, 2026: Read first time and referred to the Committee on General and HousingSponsor: Elizabeth Burrows
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What This Bill Would Do
The State of Vermont directs the Division of Fire Safety to initiate for a residential building code and mandates that state-funded housing developments incorporate these designs.
Changes construction and accessibility requirements for future state-funded residential housing developments across Vermont by conditioning state financial support on code compliance.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Division of Fire Safety
Must initiate rulemaking to implement a residential universal design building code.
State-funded housing developers
Must incorporate housing designs that meet the newly adopted residential universal design building code to utilize State funding.
Key Facts
- The Division of Fire Safety within the Department of Public Safety must initiate rulemaking to implement a residential universal design building code.
- Any housing development utilizing State funding is required to incorporate housing designs meeting the adopted residential universal design building code.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
1 action- Mar 20, 2026HouseIntroducedRead first time and referred to the Committee on General and Housing
Version history
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