# Heather Surprenant

Heather Surprenant is a Democratic member of the Vermont House for district Windsor-4.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Vermont House, district Windsor-4
- Serving since: 2023-01-04
- Current term: VT 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/a424d253-1d98-4865-a5b7-998d3ffd1bc8

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/a424d253-1d98-4865-a5b7-998d3ffd1bc8 (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

50% of the 44 bills Surprenant sponsored got out of committee, in the bottom quarter of the Vermont House.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.41 (standard error 0.05), from 8 donors and 189 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 80% of State House Democrats score lower.

## Votes (VT 2025–26 session)

26 roll calls. Attendance 81% (Vermont House 92.3%). Party unity 100% (92.1%). 2 votes against the party majority.

Key votes:

- 2025-06-16 · voted nay · Which was agreed to on a Roll Call Passed -- Needed 71 of 141 to Pass -- Yeas = 96, Nays = 45 · H 454 An act relating to transforming Vermont’s education governance, quality, and finance systems · pass · https://openstates.org/vt/bills/2025-2026/H454/
- 2025-05-30 · voted yea · Which was agreed to on a Roll Call Passed -- Needed 70 of 139 to Pass -- Yeas = 137, Nays = 2 · S 127 An act relating to housing and housing development · pass · https://openstates.org/vt/bills/2025-2026/S127/
- 2025-05-29 · voted not voting · Which was agreed to on a Roll Call Passed -- Needed 67 of 134 to Pass -- Yeas = 92, Nays = 42 · H 91 An act relating to the Vermont Homeless Emergency Assistance and Responsive Transition to Housing Program · pass · https://openstates.org/vt/bills/2025-2026/H91/
- 2025-05-23 · voted yea · Which was agreed to on a Roll Call Passed -- Needed 68 of 136 to Pass -- Yeas = 100, Nays = 36 · S 127 An act relating to housing and housing development · pass · https://openstates.org/vt/bills/2025-2026/S127/
- 2025-05-23 · voted yea · Which was agreed to on a Roll Call Passed -- Needed 71 of 142 to Pass -- Yeas = 133, Nays = 9 · S 69 An act relating to an age-appropriate design code · pass · https://openstates.org/vt/bills/2025-2026/S69/
- 2025-05-23 · voted nay · Which was disagreed to on a Roll Call Failed -- Needed 70 of 139 to Pass -- Yeas = 53, Nays = 86 · S 127 An act relating to housing and housing development · fail · https://openstates.org/vt/bills/2025-2026/S127/
- 2025-05-21 · voted yea · Which was agreed to on a Roll Call Passed -- Needed 69 of 137 to Pass -- Yeas = 99, Nays = 38 · S 126 An act relating to health care payment and delivery system reform · pass · https://openstates.org/vt/bills/2025-2026/S126/
- 2025-05-15 · voted yea · Which was agreed to on a Roll Call Passed -- Needed 68 of 135 to Pass -- Yeas = 132, Nays = 3 · H 493 An act relating to making appropriations for the support of the government · pass · https://openstates.org/vt/bills/2025-2026/H493/
- 2025-05-13 · voted not voting · Which was agreed to on a Roll Call Passed -- Needed 66 of 132 to Pass -- Yeas = 81, Nays = 51 · S 125 An act relating to collective bargaining · pass · https://openstates.org/vt/bills/2025-2026/S125/
- 2025-05-08 · voted yea · Which was disagreed to on a Roll Call Failed -- Needed 72 of 144 to Pass -- Yeas = 20, Nays = 124 · H 248 An act relating to supplemental child care grants and the Child Care Financial Assistance Program · fail · https://openstates.org/vt/bills/2025-2026/H248/

## Legislation (VT 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 44 bills: 42 reached committee, 22 passed one chamber, 3 passed both, 3 became law. Cosponsored 0. 50.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Vermont House 62.4%; rank 125 of 150).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HCR 122: House concurrent resolution recognizing the week of May 6–12 as National Nurses Week in Vermont (passed one chamber, 2025-05-02) https://openstates.org/vt/bills/2025-2026/HCR122/
- HCR 116: House concurrent resolution commemorating the 50th anniversary of the conclusion of the Vietnam War (passed one chamber, 2025-04-30) https://openstates.org/vt/bills/2025-2026/HCR116/
- HR 8: House resolution strongly objecting to the manner and circumstances under which U.S. immigration authorities arrested and detained Mohsen Mahdawi and strongly… (introduced, 2025-04-22) https://openstates.org/vt/bills/2025-2026/HR8/
- HCR 94: House concurrent resolution congratulating Tyler Riggs of Fletcher on the Vermont Forest Products Association naming him Vermont’s Outstanding Sawmill… (passed one chamber, 2025-04-17) https://openstates.org/vt/bills/2025-2026/HCR94/
- HCR 81: House concurrent resolution in memory of former Bakersfield Select Board member Brenda Churchill (passed one chamber, 2025-05-06) https://openstates.org/vt/bills/2025-2026/HCR81/
- HCR 83: House concurrent resolution congratulating the 2024 Green Mountain Council Class of Eagle Scouts (passed one chamber, 2025-04-25) https://openstates.org/vt/bills/2025-2026/HCR83/
- HCR 74: House concurrent resolution congratulating the 2025 Boys & Girls Clubs of Vermont Youth of the Year honorees (passed one chamber, 2025-04-10) https://openstates.org/vt/bills/2025-2026/HCR74/
- HCR 70: House concurrent resolution designating April 10, 2025 as Alzheimer’s Awareness Day at the State House (passed one chamber, 2025-04-10) https://openstates.org/vt/bills/2025-2026/HCR70/
- HCR 55: House concurrent resolution recognizing April 2025 as the Month of the Military Child in Vermont (passed one chamber, 2025-04-08) https://openstates.org/vt/bills/2025-2026/HCR55/
- HCR 54: House concurrent resolution in memory of former Representative, Governor, and Interim University of Vermont President Thomas Paul Salmon (passed one chamber, 2025-03-21) https://openstates.org/vt/bills/2025-2026/HCR54/

## Campaign money (2020 cycle)

Itemized receipts $3,650 (State House Democrats median $776). 33% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://legislature.vermont.gov/people/single/2024/34695
- Campaign site: https://heather4vthouse.com/
- X: https://x.com/Heather4vthouse
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heather.surprenant.9
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heather.surprenant
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-surprenant-2a93a92a/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/a424d253-1d98-4865-a5b7-998d3ffd1bc8