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2025 Vermont Statutes
Title 15 - Domestic Relations
Chapter 21 - Abuse Prevention
§ 1150. Findings and intent

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15 VT Stats § 1150
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§ 1150. Findings and intent

(a) The General Assembly finds that:

(1) persons attempting to escape from actual or threatened domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and human trafficking frequently establish new addresses in order to prevent their assailants or probable assailants from finding them; and

(2) persons who provide reproductive health care services or gender- affirming health care services, persons who assist others in obtaining reproductive health care services or gender-affirming health care services, and persons who exercise their legal right to obtain reproductive health care services or gender-affirming health care services in this State may be harassed, intimidated, or threatened because of their legally protected health care activity.

(b) It is the purpose of this subchapter to:

(1) enable State and local agencies to respond to requests for public records without disclosing the location of persons identified in subsection (a) of this section;

(2) promote interagency cooperation with the Secretary of State in providing address confidentiality for persons identified in subsection (a) of this section; and

(3) enable State and local agencies and school districts to accept a Program participant’s use of an address, and local agencies to accept an address, designated by the Secretary of State as a substitute mailing address. (Added 1999, No. 134 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2001; amended 2023, No. 14, § 8, eff. May 10, 2023.)

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