House Committee on Health Care

 

AGENDA

 

via Zoom

April 20, 2021 - April 23, 2021

Last Updated 4/22/2021 10:44 AM

 

Meetings are livestreamed here unless otherwise noted.

 

 

 

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

10:00 AM                   House Floor

 

after Floor                         Caucuses

 

1:00 PM                   Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System

Committee discussion on S.3 sections 5 and 6

 

4:30 PM                   Committee Adjourns

 

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

10:30 AM                   S. 42 - An act relating to establishing the Emergency Service Provider Wellness Commission

Committee discussion and possible vote

 

10:50 AM                   Break

 

11:00 AM                   S. 42 - An act relating to establishing the Emergency Service Provider Wellness Commission

Committee discussion and possible vote

 

11:45 AM                   Break

 

1:15 PM                   House  Floor

 

after Floor                         Dr. Dynasaur Expansion for Noncitizen Children and Pregnant Women

Review of Senate Language

Jennifer Carbee, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel

 

2:30 PM                   Committee Adjourns

 

Thursday, April 22, 2021

9:00 AM                   Children and Mental Health

Testimony on the crisis in children waiting in emergency departments for psychiatric beds

Testimony will include a break from 10:15-10:30am

Mourning Fox, Deputy Commissioner, Department of Mental Health

Laurel Omland, MS,NCC, Director, Child, Adolescent, and Family Unit, Vermont Department of Mental Health

David Rettew, M.D., Medical Director, Children and Family Division, Department of Mental Health

Christian Pulcini, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, UVMMC

Alison Kapadia, Emergency Department Site Director, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital

Kat McGraw, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital

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

Emma Harrigan, Director of Policy Analysis and Development, Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems

Dillon Burns, Mental Health Services Director, Vermont Care Partners

Lorna Mattern, Executive Director, United Counseling Services

Robyn Freedner-Maguire, Parent

Andy Anderson, Parent, Jericho

Kathleen Kourebanas, Parent, Essex

 

11:45 AM                   Break

 

1:15 PM                   House Floor

 

Friday, April 23, 2021

9:00 AM                   S. 42 - An act relating to establishing the Emergency Service Provider Wellness Commission

Final review and vote

 

9:30 AM                   House Floor

 

1:30 PM                   Committee Meeting

TBA

 

3:30 PM                   Adjourn

 

ATTENTION WITNESSES

 

Please email handouts to the committee assistant at least 24 hours before your scheduled meeting time. With few exceptions, any documents you send to a committee assistant, are open to the public and may be posted to the committee’s web page.

 

If you have any questions or comments, please contact

 Colleen McGovern at cmcgovern@leg.state.vt.us