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House concurs with Senate amendments to expand youth substance awareness program, adds cannabis possession to diversion statute
Summary
The House concurred in the Senate's amendments to H.105, adding certain underage cannabis possession offenses to the Youth Substance Awareness Safety Program and creating a procedure to review automatic motor-vehicle license suspensions.
The Vermont House of Representatives on the floor concurred in a Senate proposal of amendment to H.105, an act expanding the Youth Substance Awareness Safety Program (YSASP), moving cannabis possession for some youths from delinquency proceedings to civil diversion and adding a review process for automatic motor-vehicle license suspensions.
The change places certain underage cannabis possession offenses under 7 V.S.A. §656 (the statute governing underage alcohol diversion) so those offenses are treated like alcohol-possession diversion cases for youth ages 12–21. The Senate amendments repeal duplicative provisions that treated cannabis possession as delinquency and add a definition section and…
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