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  • H.11 - An act relating to the membership of the Commission on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders
  • H.20 - An act relating to licensed alcohol and drug abuse counselors as participating providers in Medicaid
  • H.25 - An act relating to natural burial grounds
  • H.74 - An act relating to safety policies for employees delivering direct social or mental health services
  • H.98 - An act relating to reportable disease registries and data
  • H.112 - An act relating to access to financial information in adult protective services investigations.
  • H.141 - An act relating to the Organ and Tissue Donation Working Group
  • H.171 - An act relating to restrictions on the use of electronic cigarettes
  • H.241 - An act relating to rulemaking on emergency involuntary procedures
  • H.399 - An act relating to the Department for Children and Families’ Registry Review Unit
  • H.481 - An act relating to supporting health care initiatives and establishing payroll and sugar-sweetened beverage taxes
  • H.487 - An act relating to direct enrollment in Exchange plans and to presuit mediation in medical malpractice claims
  • H.490 - An act relating to making appropriations for the support of government
  • H.559 - An act relating to an exemption from licensure for visiting team physicians
  • H.573 - An act relating to insurance coverage for medically necessary services delivered by acupuncturists
  • H.575 - An act relating to eliminating the role of town service officers in administering General Assistance benefits
  • H.620 - An act relating to health insurance and Medicaid coverage for contraceptives
  • H.622 - An act relating to obligations for reporting child abuse and neglect and cooperating in investigations of child abuse and neglect
  • H.690 - An act relating to the practice of acupuncture by health care professionals acting within their scope of practice.
  • H.761 - An act relating to cataloguing and aligning health care performance measures
  • H.812 - An act relating to implementing an all-payer model and oversight of accountable care organizations
  • H.875 - An act relating to making appropriations for the support of government
  • S.5 - An act relating to notification of individuals placed in hospital observation status
  • S.8 - An act relating to the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
  • S.9 - An act relating to improving Vermont’s system for protecting children from abuse and neglect
  • S.20 - An act relating to establishing and regulating dental therapists
  • S.27 - An act relating to equal reimbursement for chiropractic physicians
  • S.30 - An act relating to establishing a prospective payment system for home health services
  • S.31 - An act relating to possession and transfer of firearms
  • S.40 - An act relating to the creation of a Vulnerable Adult Fatality Review Team
  • S.42 - An act relating to the substance abuse system of care
  • S.54 - An act relating to the assignment of payment for dental benefits
  • S.59 - An act relating to insurance coverage for abuse-deterrent formulations of certain medications
  • S.60 - An act relating to payment for medical examinations for victims of sexual assault
  • S.61 - An act relating to fast-track Medicaid enrollment
  • S.62 - An act relating to surrogate decision making for do-not-resuscitate orders and clinician orders for life-sustaining treatment
  • S.75 - An act relating to food and lodging establishments
  • S.87 - An act relating to removal of the philosophical immunization exemption
  • S.88 - An act relating to establishing the framework for publicly financed primary care
  • S.95 - An act relating to regulation and taxation of marijuana
  • S.103 - An act relating to increasing Exchange subsidies and to developing a proposal for universal health care
  • S.107 - An act relating to the Agency of Health Care Administration
  • S.108 - An act relating to repealing the sunset on provisions pertaining to patient choice at end of life
  • S.127 - An act relating to a study regarding massage therapy licensure
  • S.132 - An act relating to the prohibition of conversion therapy on minors
  • S.135 - An act relating to expanding the responsibilities of the Green Mountain Care Board
  • S.139 - An act relating to health care
  • S.145 - An act relating to expanding eligibility and work incentives for the Medicaid for Working Persons with Disabilities program
  • S.157 - An act relating to breast density notification and education
  • S.167 - An act relating to the role of social service providers in accountable care organizations
  • S.189 - An act relating to foster parents’ rights and protections
  • S.190 - An act relating to maintaining prescription drugs outside the original prescription container
  • S.192 - An act relating to Medicaid rates for home- and community-based service providers
  • S.196 - An act relating to nutrition procurement standards for State government and the Agency of Human Services' contracts with providers
  • S.201 - An act relating to limitations on prescriptions for opioids
  • S.215 - An act relating to the regulation of vision insurance plans
  • S.235 - An act relating to the prescription, maintenance, and use of epinephrine auto-injectors
  • S.241 - An act relating to regulation of marijuana
  • S.243 - An act relating to combating opioid abuse in Vermont
  • S.244 - An act relating to determining hospital costs
  • S.245 - An act relating to notice to patients of new health care provider affiliations
  • S.255 - An act relating to regulation of hospitals, health insurers, and managed care organizations
  • S.256 - An act relating to extending the moratorium on home health agency certificates of need
  • S.258 - An act relating to access to treatment for patients with a terminal illness
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