Legislature to tackle school safety

Sen. Dick Sears listens to testimony on gun control legislation. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin work this week on a bill that tackles school safety, school discipline and laws related to threats of mass violence.Sen. Dick Sears, D-Bennington and chair of the committee, said he intends to take a now-irrelevant House bill on gun violence, strip its current language, and use it as a foundation for efforts to prevent school violence. Get all of VTDigg