Senate Committee on Health and Welfare

 

AGENDA

 

Room 17

March 26, 2019 - March 29, 2019

Last Updated 3/28/2019 4:05 PM

 

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

9:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

9:00 AM                   Health Care Workforce

Sarah Buxton, Director, Workforce Policy and Performance, Department of Labor

Mat Barewicz, Economic & Labor Market Information Chief, Department of Labor

 

9:45 AM                   Health Care Workforce

Katie McLinn, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

10:10 AM                   Prop 5 - Declaration of rights; right to personal reproductive liberty

 

10:30 AM                   Retention of Superior Court Judges and Magistrates

Joint Assembly

 

12:00 PM                   Adjourn

 

Thursday, March 28, 2019

9:00 AM                   Nutrition Discussion

 

9:30 AM                   Woodside

Alex Hodgetts, Clinical Services Rehabilitation Coordinator, Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center

 

9:45 AM                   Health Care Workforce

Lorraine Jenne, Chief Operations and Human Resources Officer, Rutland Mental Health Services

Jena Trombley, Director of Human Resources, Clara Martin Center

Devon Green, Vice President of Government Relations, Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems

Laura Pelosi, Lobbyist, Vermont Health Care Association & Bayada Home Health

Kevin Mullin, Chair, Green Mountain Care Board

 

11:00 AM                   H. 204 - An act relating to miscellaneous provisions affecting navigators, Medicaid records, and the Department of Vermont Health Access

Introduction and walk-through

Jennifer Carbee, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

-                                   H. 528 - An act relating to the Rural Health Services Task Force

Introduction and walk-through

Rep. Lucy Rogers, Sponsor

Jennifer Carbee, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

-                                   H. 26 - An act relating to restricting retail and Internet sales of electronic cigarettes, liquid nicotine, and tobacco paraphernalia in Vermont

Walk-through

Jennifer Carbee, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

12:00 PM                   Adjourn

 

Friday, March 29, 2019

9:00 AM                   Vermont Health Information Exchange

Michael K. Smith, Interim President and CEO, Vermont Information Technology Leaders (VITL)

Kevin Mullin, Chair, Green Mountain Care Board

Jenney Samuelson, Deputy Commissioner, Department of Vermont Health Access (DVHA)

Michael Fisher, Chief Health Care Advocate, Office of Health Care Advocate, Vermont Legal Aid

Dan Smith, Consultant, Joint Fiscal Office

 

10:15 AM                   Break

 

10:30 AM                   Affordable Housing and Step-Down Beds

Jeffrey Rothenberg, Director of Community Living, Washington County Mental Health Services

Rebeka Lawrence-Gomez, Deputy Director, Pathways Vermont

 

11:00 AM                   Affordable Housing and Step-Down Beds

Gus Seelig, Executive Director, Vermont Housing & Conservation Board

 

11:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

ATTENTION WITNESSES- Please email handouts to the committee assistant before your scheduled meeting date and bring 1 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

 Maya Sutton-Smith at 802-828-2279 or msuttonsmith@leg.state.vt.us