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Senate adopts judiciary amendment to S183 to refocus home-improvement fraud statute on intent to defraud
Summary
The Senate amended S183 as recommended by the Judiciary Committee to require that a contractor knowingly entered into a contract with intent to defraud at formation, restoring pre-2015 language and adding change-order language; the amendment was adopted and third reading ordered.
The Senate accepted the Judiciary Committee’s amendment to S183, a revision to Vermont’s law addressing home-improvement and land-improvement fraud. Committee reporter (Senator Norris, speaker 11) summarized that courts had previously interpreted the 2015 changes to the statute as criminalizing breach of labor contract and raised separation concerns with the…
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