Vermont House · Windsor-4 District

Heather Surprenant's Vermont House voting record

Democratic Left office Sept. 29, 2025

Heather Surprenant (Democratic) was a member of the Vermont House for the Windsor-4 District until Sept. 29, 2025. This page covers the 27 floor roll calls held while Heather Surprenant was in office, from Feb. 6, 2025 to June 16, 2025. Didn't vote on 15% of roll calls. Heather Surprenant sponsored 3 statewide bills this term; 0 passed. Below are the contested votes where Heather Surprenant split from the House Majority Leader or the party, recent key votes, every roll call with filters, the bills Heather Surprenant sponsored and contact details.

Votes with the House Majority Leader —Not enough votes to score. Votes with own party —Not enough votes to score. Didn't vote at roll call 15% 4 of 27 roll calls · 4 of them excused

Bills passed 0 3 sponsored · 0 became law Bills that became law 0 of 0 passed · 0 vetoed

Where they sit

Every current House member, placed from most liberal to most conservative by how they voted on contested bills.

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Votes with DemocratsCrosses party linesVotes with Republicans

Heather Surprenant has left office, so isn't on the chart of current members. Color shows how often each member crosses party lines toward the middle on votes that divide the parties: solid blue or red means almost never, and purple means on at least 1 in 5 of those votes. Gray seats are members too new to score. How these numbers work

The scores

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Votes with the House Majority Leader

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Each tick is a current member, by party. Heather Surprenant has left office, so isn't marked.

On 18 contested votes where both voted91% on all 23 votes where both voted

Votes with own party

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Each tick is a current member, by party. Heather Surprenant has left office, so isn't marked.

On 13 party-line votes

Bills

The bills Heather Surprenant sponsored this term and how far they got. Co-sponsors aren’t counted.

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Bills: Heather Surprenant
	Bills
Sponsored	3
Passed both chambers	0
Became law	0
Vetoed by the Governor	0

Rank by bills passed: Ranked among current members only.

A bill's sponsor is the member the Journal names first when the bill is introduced; co-sponsors aren't counted, and a committee's bill counts for no one.

Bills that passed both chambers

None of the bills Heather Surprenant sponsored passed both chambers.

Budget projects

These pages don't credit budget items to Vermont legislators.

Contested votes where they split

2 against the House Majority Leader; 2 against most of their party.

Contested votes where they split: Heather Surprenant
Date	Bill and motion	Their vote	House Majority Leader	Most of their party
June 16, 2025	H.454: Transforming Vermont’s education governance, quality, and finance systems Motion to Transmit	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
May 8, 2025	H.248: Supplemental child care grants and the Child Care Financial Assistance Program Amendment	Yea	Nay (split)	Nay (split)

Recent key votes

Heather Surprenant's most recent key votes: contested or party-line votes that gave the chamber's last word on a whole bill (passage, budgets included, the other chamber's changes or a conference report) or overrode a veto, with what each bill does where a checked explanation exists. The full record is below.

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May 29, 2025
House

H.91: The Vermont Homeless Emergency Assistance and Responsive Transition to Housing Program
Excused Adoption of the Conference Report · Yeas 92, nays 42

What the bill does: We don't have a checked plain-language explanation of this bill yet; the vote page links to the official record.
May 21, 2025
House

S.126: Health care payment and delivery system reform
Voted yea Passage in Concurrence with Proposal of Amendment · Yeas 99, nays 38

What the bill does: We don't have a checked plain-language explanation of this bill yet; the vote page links to the official record.
May 1, 2025
House

Prop. 3: Declaration of Rights; right to collectively bargain
Voted yea Adoption of a Constitutional Proposal · Yeas 125, nays 15

What the bill does: We don't have a checked plain-language explanation of this bill yet; the vote page links to the official record.
April 17, 2025
House

S.28: Access to certain legally protected health care services
Excused Third Reading · Yeas 97, nays 43

What the bill does: We don't have a checked plain-language explanation of this bill yet; the vote page links to the official record.
March 28, 2025
House

H.218: Fiscal year 2026 appropriations from the Opioid Abatement Special Fund
Voted yea Passage · Yeas 119, nays 24

What the bill does: We don't have a checked plain-language explanation of this bill yet; the vote page links to the official record.

Every roll call

How Heather Surprenant voted on each of the 27 floor roll calls while in office, newest first.

Every roll call: Heather Surprenant
Date	Vote	Their vote	Most of their party	House Majority Leader	Yeas–nays
May 29, 2025	H.91: The Vermont Homeless Emergency Assistance and Responsive Transition to Housing Program Adoption of the Conference Report	Excused	Yea	Yea	92–42
May 21, 2025	S.126: Health care payment and delivery system reform Passage in Concurrence with Proposal of Amendment	Yea	Yea	Yea	99–38
May 1, 2025	Prop. 3: Declaration of Rights; right to collectively bargain Adoption of a Constitutional Proposal	Yea	Yea	Yea	125–15
April 17, 2025	S.28: Access to certain legally protected health care services Third Reading	Excused	Yea	Yea	97–43
March 28, 2025	H.218: Fiscal year 2026 appropriations from the Opioid Abatement Special Fund Passage	Yea	Yea	Yea	119–24
March 27, 2025	H.493: Making appropriations for the support of the government Third Reading	Yea	Yea	Yea	104–38
March 21, 2025	H.489: Fiscal year 2025 budget adjustments Third Reading	Yea	Yea	Yea	91–55
Feb. 6, 2025	H.141: Fiscal year 2025 budget adjustments Third Reading	Yea	Yea	Yea	87–51

Contested and party-line votes link to their own pages; the rest link to the official record.

Source: the Vermont General Assembly's Journals and roll-call books, Jan. 31, 2025 to May 29, 2026. How these numbers work · Corrections