House Committee on Human Services

 

AGENDA

 

Room 46

March 19, 2019 - March 22, 2019

Last Updated 3/22/2019 12:20 PM

 

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

10:00 AM                   House Floor

 

12:00 PM                   Lunch

 

1:00 PM                   FLOOR

 

Immediately following adjournment                   Caucuses

 

after caucuses                      Unused Drug Repository Report 2018

Shayla Livingston, Public Health Policy Advisor, Department of Health

Carrie Phillips, Executive Officer, Vermont Board of Pharmacy

 

4:30 PM                   Adjourn

 

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

9:00 AM                   S. 14 - An act relating to extending the moratorium on home health agency certificates of need

 

Sen. Tim Ashe, Sponsor

Amerin Aborjaily, Associate General Counsel, Green Mountain Care Board

Jennifer Carbee, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Jill Olson, Executive  Director, VNAs of Vermont

 

10:25 AM                   Committee Discussion

 

11:00 AM                   Prevention: Afterschool Programs

Holly Morehouse, Executive Director, Vermont Afterschool, Inc.

Humberto Soriano, Pediatrician, Gastroenterology, Nutritionist, Hematologist, President, Chilean Society of Pediatrics

Michael Mann, Ph.D., Icelandic Centre for Social Research and Analysis Community Intervention Specialist, Associate Professor, Boise State University

 

12:00 PM                   Lunch

 

1:00 PM                   House Floor

 

15 mins after Floor                   Committee  Discussion

 

4:30 PM                   Adjourn

 

 

9:00 AM                   S. 86 - An act relating to increasing the legal age for buying and using cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, and other tobacco products from 18 to 21 years of age

Walk-through

Sen. Debbie Ingram, Reporter

Jennifer Carbee, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Prospero Gogo, Cardiologist and Director, Cardiac Catheterization Lab at UVMMC, On Behalf of the Vermont Medical Society

Rebecca Bell, MD, FAAP, Pediatric Intensivist, University of Vermont Medical Center, On behalf of Vermont Medical Society

Shayla Livingston, Public Health Policy Advisor, Department of Health

Nolan Langweil, Senior Fiscal Analyst, Joint Fiscal Office - Invited

 

10:15 AM                   Break

 

10:30 AM                   Marijuana for Symptom Relief 2018 Report

Jeffrey Wallin, Director,Vermont Crime Information Center, Department of Public Safety

Amy Klingler, Member, Marijuana for Symptom Relief Oversight Committee

 

11:45 AM                   Committee Discussion

 

12:00 PM                   Lunch

 

1:00 PM                   House Floor

 

Friday, March 22, 2019

9:30 AM                   House Floor

 

12:25 PM                   S. 14 - An act relating to extending the moratorium on home health agency certificates of need

Vote-update at noon: the Committee will work through lunch when the Floor adjourns

Jennifer Carbee, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

ATTENTION WITNESSES- Please email handouts to the committee assistant before your scheduled meeting date and bring 2 hard copies. Please write your name, organization, date and title on each document. With few exceptions, any documents you hand out to a committee, or send to a committee assistant, are open to the public and may be posted to the committee’s webpage.

 

If you have any questions and comments, please contact

 Julie Tucker 828-2265 or jtucker@leg.state.vt.us