The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
002
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JOINT FISCAL OFFICE
(Cite as: 2 V.S.A. § 523)
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§ 523. Functions; confidentiality
(a) The Joint Fiscal Office shall furnish:
(1) nonpartisan research and administrative services of a fiscal nature to the Joint Fiscal
Committee and, at the direction of the Joint Fiscal Committee, to the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations, the Senate Committee on Finance, the House Committee
on Ways and Means, the House and Senate Committees on Transportation, the House Committee
on Corrections and Institutions, and the Senate Committee on Institutions;
(2) nonpartisan research and administrative services of a fiscal nature to other legislative
committees and members of the General Assembly, to the extent practicable; and
(3) fiscal and budget assistance to the Joint Legislative Management Committee and to
the other legislative offices.
(b)(1)(A) All requests for assistance, information, and advice from the Joint Fiscal Office,
all information received in connection with fiscal research or related drafting, and
all confidential materials provided to or generated by the Joint Fiscal Office shall
remain confidential unless the party requesting or providing the information designates
that it is not confidential.
(B) Any draft of a report or other work in progress generated by or submitted to the Joint
Fiscal Office shall remain confidential until it has been finalized. (Added 2019, No. 144 (Adj. Sess.), § 5; amended 2023, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.), § E.127, eff. July 1, 2024.)