The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
Subchapter
001
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GENERAL PROVISIONS
(Cite as: 16 V.S.A. § 1986)
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§ 1986. Noninterference with right to testify
(a) Subject to subsection (b) of this section, no teacher, administrator, or other employee
of a school district or supervisory union shall be subject to discipline by the school
district or supervisory union for testifying before the General Assembly or a committee
of the General Assembly or before the State Board of Education.
(b) A teacher, administrator, or other employee of a school district or supervisory union
who testifies before the General Assembly or a committee of the General Assembly or
before the State Board of Education shall not divulge information that is confidential
to the school district or supervisory union or to its students or staff and may be
disciplined by the individual’s employer for divulging such confidential information.
(c) A teacher, administrator, or other employee of a school district or supervisory union
who testifies before the General Assembly or a committee of the General Assembly or
before the State Board of Education shall, unless authorized by the individual’s employer
to testify on the employer’s behalf, state for the record that the individual is not
testifying on behalf of the individual’s employer. (Added 2021, No. 111 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 11, 2022.)