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Senate amends open meetings law to clarify hybrid rules, executive session language
Summary
The Vermont Senate on March 19 approved committee amendments to S.59, a cleanup of recent open meeting law changes that clarifies "undue burden" standards, exempts site inspections from hybrid-meeting rules and tightens agenda and executive-session procedures.
The Vermont Senate considered S.59, an amendment package to the state's open meeting law that the committee described as a cleanup following a substantial post‑COVID overhaul.
Senator Ruth Hardy and the Committee on Government Operations reported the bill section by section. Changes include amending 1 V.S.A. § 310 to revise the definition of "undue burden" (clarifying…
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