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Attorney General explains modest inflation-based fee increases added to budget bill
Summary
At a May 13 committee meeting, the attorney general's office and fiscal staff described adjustments to three existing fees in the budget bill—updating long-unchanged amounts for inflation and projecting roughly $42,000 in additional annual revenue to a special fund.
The attorney general's office and Joint Fiscal Office staff told a legislative committee on May 13 that three existing fees in the fiscal 2026 budget were increased to reflect inflation, producing an estimated $42,000 in additional revenue to a miscellaneous special revenue fund.
Todd Daylows, a representative of the Vermont Attorney General's Office, told the committee the office inadvertently did not notify the committee earlier about the fee proposals and apologized. “That is our mistake, and I apologize for that,” Daylows said. He said the changes update fees that had not been adjusted since 2009 or 2013 and are intended to align the office's fee revenue with the governor's budget request.
The fee adjustments include: raising the prescribed-products disclosure fee (the reporting tied to manufacturers of products that may be…
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