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Committee reviews S.59 changes to open-meeting law: agendas, recordings, executive sessions and undue hardship
Summary
Legislative counsel and committee members walked through S.59 (as passed by the Senate), which amends the Open Meeting Law to clarify 'undue hardship,' adjust hybrid-meeting rules, require more specific agenda detail for certain meetings, change posting requirements for recordings, and add a voting requirement to conclude executive sessions.
Legislative Council drew the Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee through the major provisions of S.59 (as passed by the Senate), which makes technical and substantive changes to the state Open Meeting Law (Title 1 V.S.A. chapter covering public access to meetings).
Tucker Anderson, legislative counsel, said S.59 revises the definition of “undue hardship” so that the relevant standard is the difficulty or expense to the unit of government rather than to the individual public body, and clarifies the factors to be considered (size of the entity, availability of necessary personnel and staff, resources and costs). Anderson said the bill aims to…
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