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Rep. Troy Hickrick introduces H.22 to clarify public access to severance and benefit extensions
Summary
Representative Troy Hickrick told the Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee that H.22 would clarify that extensions of salary and benefits paid to public employees are public records; legislative counsel said existing law requires a case-by-case balancing of privacy and public interest under the Public Records Act.
Representative Troy Hickrick of Burlington introduced H.22 Friday to the Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee, saying the bill would clarify that extensions of salary and benefits paid to public employees — commonly described as severance packages — are public records subject to disclosure.
The bill, Hickrick said, grew out of a June situation at the University of Vermont in which several staff members learned they were no longer employed and, he said, received short-term severance assistance; Hickrick said his public-records requests for the terms of those severance arrangements were denied. He said H.22 would make clear that “an extension of salary, an extension of benefits should be considered … salary and…
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