Community Media Public Benefit Bill: H.575 and S.181: Vermont Senate Committee on Government Operations - Discussion of S.55 Update to Open Meeting Law

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Discussion of S.55 Update to Open Meeting Law at the Senate Committee on Government Operations.

On Thursday, the Senate Government Operations Committee was scheduled to meet to go over the bill, but they could not get a quorum because most of the members were on conference committees that were meeting at the same time. However, Chair Ruth Hardy and Senator Tanya Vyhovsky met unofficially (and thus, not streamed) to get a walkthrough of the House changes to the bill. Senator Vyhovsky was very upset with a few of the changes and asked if they could have a conference committee. However, they did not want the bill to die because of there not being enough time. Senator Hardy agreed to find out if a conference committee was possible, with the back-up plan of accepting the House changes in order to get the bill all the way through to final passage. On FRIDAY, the Senate concurred officially with the House proposal of amendment, so this bill will be headed to the Governor’s desk sometime soon.

S.55 as Passed by the Senate:
https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2024/Docs/BILLS/S-0055/S-0055%20As%20Passed%20by%20the%20Senate%20Unofficial.pdf