Gov. Phil Scott signs bills on emergency medical services, capital projects, miscellaneous reforms
VTDigger
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott signed a raft of bills Thursday, codifying legislation that will make changes to various areas of state government and policy.
The nine bills, which include four “miscellaneous” bills — pieces of legislation that generally include many small changes on a particular topic — were signed on the same day that Scott vetoed a bill that set property tax rates to fund the public school system. The approved bills target subjects from agricultural grants to state construction projects to substance use disorder recovery facilities.
One of the bills, H.622, aims to support the state’s struggling emergency medical services providers. Amid dwindling numbers of volunteers, rising call volumes and inadequate reimbursement rates, the state’s EMS system “is failing,” an advisory committee wrote in a report earlier this year.