Throughout the legislative session, VSEA’s Legislative Department will be providing a schedule of committee meetings of interest to VSEA members and retirees. Due to the pandemic, meetings are all done by Zoom.
Note: Sometimes a meeting will start late, or won’t stream live for one reason or another, but visit the committee’s page a few hours afterward to see if the meeting you were interested in has now posted for viewing.
The House Government Operations Committee takes testimony earlier this week from VSEA member Leona Watt on proposed legislation to address the pension funding “crisis.” Watt was one of two VSEA members who served on the Pension Task Force that authored the legislation.
The Governor has signaled in a letter from his Secretary of Administration to the Legislature that he isn’t “comfortable” supporting the State budget if he doesn’t get what he wants.
Call Governor Scott at (802) 828-3333, or e-mail him using this link! Tell him you want him to support both the pension bill and the State budget. A deal is a deal.
Governor Scott signed the bill that created the Pension Taskforce— which included an appointed representative of his Administration who supported the compromise.
The unanimous vote in support of the compromise was bipartisan. Members of the Governor’s political party served on the Taskforce and supported the compromise.
Governor Scott failed to propose these changes during five months of Taskforce’s meetings.
Now, at the very last minute, Governor Scott is threatening the entire deal by demanding that the agreement be reopened, so he can make major changes to the hard-earned, unanimously backed compromise.
Governor Scott is demanding a poison pill be added that will threaten the health and stability of your pension.
Throughout the legislative session, VSEA’s Legislative Department will be providing a schedule of committee meetings of interest to VSEA members and retirees. Due to the pandemic, meetings are all done by Zoom.
Note: Sometimes a meeting will start late, or won’t stream live for one reason or another, but visit the committee’s page a few hours afterward to see if the meeting you were interested in has now posted for viewing.
