Senate Committee on Health and Welfare

 

AGENDA

 

Room 17

January 21, 2020 - January 24, 2020

Last Updated 1/24/2020 10:55 AM

 

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

10:30 AM                   S. 288 - An act relating to banning flavored tobacco products and e-liquids

Jennifer Costa, Government Relations Director, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network

Tina Zuk, Government Relations Director, American Heart Association

Phillip Gardiner, Senior Program Officer, University of California Office of the President

Elizabeth Hamlin, Advocacy Director for New York, Massachusetts, and Vermont, American Lung Association

Jennifer Carbee, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

11:45 AM                   Adjourn

 

1:55 PM                   Senate Floor

 

2:00 PM                   Governor's FY2021 Proposed Budget Address

Joint Assembly-House Chamber

 

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

9:00 AM                   S. 288 - An act relating to banning flavored tobacco products and e-liquids

Room 11

Safiya Ibrahim, Student, Burlington High School, Above the Influence

Grace Brown ,  Student, Burlington High School, Above the Influence

Shamura Awayle, Student, Burlington High School, Above the Influence

Qamar Ibrahim, Student, Burlington High School, Above the Influence

 

9:30 AM                   S. 288 - An act relating to banning flavored tobacco products and e-liquids

Room 11

Phillip Gardiner, Senior Program Officer, University of California Office of the President

 

10:30 AM                   Break

 

10:45 AM                   Press Conference on S.288

Cedar Creek Room

 

11:30 AM                   Adjourn

 

Thursday, January 23, 2020

9:00 AM                   S. 288 - An act relating to banning flavored tobacco products and e-liquids

Jennifer Carbee, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

9:30 AM                   Homelessness Awareness Day

Rebeka Lawrence-Gomez, Deputy Director, Pathways Vermont, and Co-Chair, Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness

Jennifer Furey, Support Line Operator, Pathways Vermont

 

9:50 AM                   Break

 

10:00 AM                   Current Research on the Effect of Gun Waiting Periods on Suicide Prevention and Public Health

Joint Meeting with Senate Judiciary Committee

Room 11

Deepak Malhotra, Professor, Harvard Business School

Michael Luca, Professor, Harvard Business School

 

12:00 PM                   Adjourn

 

Friday, January 24, 2020

9:00 AM                   S. 288 - An act relating to banning flavored tobacco products and e-liquids

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

Lauren E. Faricy, Pediatric Pulmonologist, University of Vermont Medical Center, On Behalf of the Vermont Medical Society

 

9:30 AM                   S. 263 - An act relating to the Parent Child Center Network

Katie McLinn, Legislative Counsel

Donna Bailey, Director, Addison County Parent Child Center

Amy Johnson, Program Manager, Northwest Counseling and Support Services

Kari Aube, Educator, Addison County Parent Child Center

Margot Holmes, Executive Director, Springfield Area Parent Child Center

Claire Kendall, Co-Director, Family Center of Washington County, Parent Child Center Network

 

10:30 AM                   S. 290 - An act relating to health care reform implementation

Walk-through

Jennifer Carbee, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

11:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

ATTENTION WITNESSES- Please email handouts to the committee assistant before your scheduled meeting date and bring 1 hard copy. We are paperless. 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 or comments, please contact

 Doris Oatley at 802-828-2279 or doatley@leg.state.vt.us