Bill Tracker 2023
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Active Bills |
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Topic |
Bill |
Description |
Status |
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340B |
Makes 340B protections permanent |
Passed |
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Abortion, birth care, or gender-affirming services |
Civil and criminal liability protection for legal health care services |
Law |
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Abortion, birth care, or gender-affirming services |
Regulatory protection for legal health care services and protection of PHI related to protected health care services |
Law |
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Blueprint Expansion |
$10.5M per year to expand community health teams to include more mental health, expand DULCE program, expand hub services |
Passed |
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Cybersecurity |
Cybersecurity Advisory Council-- removed GMCB creating cybersecurity standards for health facilities |
Passed |
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EMS |
Medicaid to 100% Medicare rates, $1M for training, $100k to study regional coordination |
Passed |
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Hospital Liens/Bill collection |
Limitation on hospital liens for claims other than workers' comp- hospitals to bill health care coverage and then can claim 1/3 of judgment or settlement for out of pocket costs or uninsured |
Passed, language from S.79 folded into H.206 |
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Public Safety |
Ability for law enforcement to arrest individuals who commit (1) simple assault; (2) criminal threatening; or (3) engaging in fighting or in violent, tumultuous, or threatening behavior that interferes with the provision of health care in a hospital or by EMS. Increased penalty for criminal threatening against a health care worker. Report on use of arrest and demographic data required. |
Passed |
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Public Safety |
Forensic residential beds at Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital, proposed rules for involuntary procedures and treatment at forensic unit by 9/1/23, working group for justice-involved individuals with intellectual disabilities |
Senate Proposal of Amendment |
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Public Safety |
Competency to stand trial and insanity as a defense-- presumes competency, decouples competency and sanity evaluations, recommendations on whether VT should have a competency restoration program |
Passed |
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Regulatory |
Update to vulnerable adult abuse and neglect investigations with APS-- removed negligent mindset for abuse or neglect |
House concurring with Senate proposal of amendment |
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Regulatory |
Covid regulatory flexibilities & BOM report on streamlining licensure |
Law (Act 4) |
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Substance Use- Reducing Drug Overdoses |
Drug-checking permitted, no PA needed for health care providers in office-based opioid treatment programs to prescribe 24 milligrams or less of the preferred medication for buprenorphine |
Passed |
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Suicide Prevention |
Director of Suicide Prevention and stakeholders to develop a model protocol for health care facilities regarding sucide prevention and postvention services and eating disorders |
Passed |
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Suicide Prevention |
Safe firearm storage, 72-hour waiting period to purchase a firearm |
Passed |
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Workforce |
$3m for nursing forgivable loan program; $3.8m for critical occupation scholarships; $763k to increase rates for primary care to 110% of Medicare; $1.65m to increase rates for specialty care by 3.8% |
Passed |
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Workforce |
Psychology interjurisdictional compact |
Passed |
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Workforce |
Radiologist Assistants can be supervised remotely |
Passed |
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Workforce |
Interstate counseling compact |
Passed |
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Workforce |
Physical therapy licensure compact |
Passed |
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Workforce |
Audiology and speech-language pathology compact |
Passed |
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Unused Drug Repository |
VDH can contract and make rules for an unused drug repository |
Passed |
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Missed Deadline |
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Topic |
Bill |
Description |
Status |
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Regulatory |
Data privacy |
Missed deadline |
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Regulatory |
State auditor to examine the books and records of State contractors |
Missed deadline |
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Substance Use- Harm Reduction |
Allows for safe injection sites |
Missed deadline |
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Substance Use- Psychedelics |
Removal of criminal penalties for possessing, dispensing, or selling psilocybin and establishment of the Psychedelic Therapy Advisory Working Group |
Missed deadline |
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Regulatory |
Criminal liability protection for good faith health care services |
Missed deadline |
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EMS |
Annual appropriation to EMS Special Fund, expand commercial and Medicaid coverage of services, increase EMS provider rates |
Missed deadline, but some provisions in budget |
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Health Care Reform |
GMCB will collect and review representative sample health care contracts and fee schedules |
Missed deadline |
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Reference Pricing |
Task force to bring commercial reimbursement to 100% Medicare for state and school employees |
Missed deadline |
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Birth Centers |
Licensure of freestanding birth centers |
Missed deadline |
