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The bill directs the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) to create a program addressing Internet gaming disorder, including prevention, treatment and rehabilitation. The proposal allows the commissioner to enlist regional behavioral health action organizations to provide services and permits a reasonable sliding‑scale fee for participants. Committee discussion noted that Internet gaming disorder is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) as a condition warranting further study and that young adults are a vulnerable group.

Committee members discussed the overlap between gaming and gambling — including concerns about loot boxes and online gambling access for young people who may obtain parents' credit card information — and whether any parallel consumer protections or age verification rules should be considered in related policy work. Members agreed the bill is a starting point and that DMHAS and local behavioral health organizations should lead program design; additional funding and statutory detail would be determined through appropriations and further legislative action.

Ending

Committee members described the measure as an initial, awareness‑raising step to address a behavioral health concern for youth and young adults. The committee approved the bill and sent it on for further legislative review; the DMHAS and regional partners will be the logical next contacts for program design if the bill advances and receives funding.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Public Health Committee Meeting in Room 1D and Via ZOOM","oneSentenceSummary","The Public Health Committee approved a bill directing the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services to create prevention, treatment and rehabilitation programming for Internet gaming disorder and related services; the bill was advanced for further legislative review.","taxTitle","Public Health, House of Representatives, Committees, Legislative, Connecticut","taxId",15635,"location","Connecticut","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":81,"_47":82,"_49":83,"_51":84,"_53":85,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":86,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":87,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6622049,"Public Health Committee advances maternal health bill with report‑card provision; amendment to strip data section fails",1815,7185000,9000000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2789012-e63194dd3f2129739e78dde293d9f965&start=7185&end=9000","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2789012-e63194dd3f2129739e78dde293d9f965/thumbnail_7185000.jpg","/articles/6622049/Connecticut/Public-Health-Committee-advances-maternal-health-bill-with-reportcard-provision-amendment-to-strip-data-section-fails","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6622049-9f77ffda505ab9ee125b5014eaed6f1d/orig.mp4?Expires=1770801142&Signature=LZFyk5jZsoUjlIAoE5fyA-LWwljWvlzhvE0fN5up0ejXbBvjBk7g2wTSezIHXRkonQkB2HM13IeUXdftC49hp-ZOky3fbZ4dVz65jItgMmGzHzjZxg26q4fuukxfg1a-dIXk4iGN9nsVGqZ9WDFjluIow6am-aZYwWBSz8mgNmQ~t84u-5q2RsXpT9orpkGLTdWK4wJKob89QiOXo2nb70lECLIBWW88SF1lBy2BAep6wBJrJmxTaSloFuHigRM~sWmtSBNqB0292mf~ayxGr4IHfIhXGcKwvKaGdjWKQxLBKW-VVWnBbjY~1okS~u7vdAvh7SimfPGIS6QJVppslw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Public Health Committee voted to advance House Bill 7214, \"An Act Concerning Maternal Health,\" sending the measure to the legislature's next stage.

The bill creates a perinatal mental health task force to study available programs, treatment innovations and service gaps with attention to communities of color, adolescents and immigrants. It directs the Department of Public Health (DPH) to establish an annual maternity care report card, with an advisory committee to design the tool and to adjust facility scores for acuity. The bill also requires DPH to convene an advisory group to study making hospitals more doula‑friendly.

Senator Summers proposed an amendment to delete the bill's data‑collection section (section 2), arguing for consistency with the committee's recent debate on abortion reporting. The amendment would have removed language directing the commissioner to identify and collect disaggregated data (race, ethnicity, income, facility characteristics) used to compile the report card. Supporters of the amendment said they opposed special data collection unless it is applied consistently; opponents argued that disaggregated maternal data is necessary to identify disparities and target interventions.

The amendment to delete section 2 was defeated on a roll call. Committee testimony and remarks emphasized the high and preventable share of maternal deaths among Black and Hispanic women in Connecticut and the value of data to guide targeted interventions (Senator Amor and other members cited state mortality reviews and trend analyses). The committee then voted to report the bill out to the next stage (committee report/JF to the floor).

Ending

Members described the bill as a starting point to address maternal mortality and disparities; several emphasized the need for follow‑up work, pilots and stakeholder engagement on how a report card would be designed and used. The failed amendment left the bill's reporting language intact for further consideration.","The committee approved a maternal health bill that establishes a perinatal mental health task force and requires DPH to produce an annual maternity care report card; an amendment to remove the bill's data collection/reporting section failed on a roll call.",{"_33":89,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":90,"_41":91,"_43":92,"_45":93,"_47":94,"_49":95,"_51":96,"_53":97,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":98,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":99,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6622054,"Connecticut public health committee rejects amendments to require hospital-only third‑trimester abortions and to restore clinic reporting",1152,781000,1933000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2789012-e63194dd3f2129739e78dde293d9f965&start=781&end=1933","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2789012-e63194dd3f2129739e78dde293d9f965/thumbnail_781000.jpg","/articles/6622054/Connecticut/Connecticut-public-health-committee-rejects-amendments-to-require-hospital-only-thirdtrimester-abortions-and-to-restore-clinic-reporting","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6622054-cf27afb24c0d4e1650467657eccef6ac/orig.mp4?Expires=1770801142&Signature=E7cpLB0TEqnjLULTvaYe4tlmwqzBEl4pgSafwVcx4iue6bzIu1M7MsNq6qDKNsxGq0mPVryfyZd8hphJn051sit6Ec7m1y4v6WvlOTSV2yToE7~cfKXnYXzfFLjKSuzMP6QjrS83qLecs32O~dzzJeT1srO6TDcbcBPB8PgZt69sWjK3G1U1CUFrrQ1fbbwpOFD~5-bhUqrvm~1LQN423Hi1arnxC2thJPdwRUGGGYMZRfYfBdcL~YSUgljtLSddcym27h6Da8PqjzC8yk0vgxlNZHwPUakPFPv6SnfaT7OOmjqpOvWkG76moapvZ202DE5DYyU3c8Ez7avW3tb0OA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Connecticut General Assembly's Public Health Committee debated a bill that would repeal certain Department of Public Health regulations for abortion clinics and related provisions, including where later procedures may be performed and whether clinics must report abortion data to the state.

Representative Mara proposed an amendment that would require \"all induced abortions after second trimester shall be done in a licensed hospital.\" The committee discussed the amendment at length, with senators and representatives asking whether state law already limits post‑viability procedures and whether existing regulations require hospital care when necessary to preserve the life or health of the patient. Representative Mara said the amendment intended to ensure later procedures occur where hospital resources are available if an infant were born alive. The amendment was defeated on a roll call and did not pass.

A separate amendment from Senator Summers sought to add back reporting requirements for abortions that had been in current DPH regulations. Summers read the reporting language into the record: \"All induced abortions will be reported within 7 days by the physician performing the procedure to the state commissioner of public health, who maintains such reports in a confidential file and use them only for statistical purposes... The name of the woman is not given. These records will be destroyed within 2 years after date of receipt.\" Summers said the reporting helps track trends, ages of patients, locations of services and complications, and that the data have supported prior policy work on contraception and access. Opponents said the reporting requirement singled out abortion services and expressed concerns about confidentiality, the scope of data collection and potential misuse. The amendment failed on a roll call.

Senator Summers later moved to strike sections of the bill that repeal DPH regulations (arguing that regulations normally must go through the Uniform Administrative Procedure Act/regulations review process), asking that the repeal be routed through the regs review committee. Supporters of the bill said the legislature may repeal regulations by statute and that there is precedent. That amendment also failed on a roll call.

Throughout debate, members raised two recurrent themes: (1) whether the legislature or DPH should be the primary forum for changing regulatory text and (2) the public‑health value of deidentified reporting data vs. concerns about privacy and \"abortion exceptionalism.\" Supporters of data collection argued the state uses similar data for other public health programs and that deidentified, time‑limited records allow trend analysis and targeted prevention; opponents said many routine outpatient procedures are not subject to the same specific reporting and expressed concern about expanding state reporting obligations for abortion clinics without careful safeguards.

The committee recorded roll calls on the individual amendments. Multiple members spoke for and against the measures, and the discussion repeatedly returned to statutory citations: the committee referenced Connecticut General Statutes including references to post‑viability limits (reported in debate as \"19a‑602\") and to fetal death and vital records requirements (sections cited during debate included sections in title 7 of the Connecticut General Statutes). The bill remained the subject of additional floor and committee process after the votes reported here.

Ending

The committee's debate spanned detailed procedural questions and policy disagreements about safety, confidentiality and the appropriate role of the legislature versus administrative rulemaking. Three explicit amendment efforts described above failed on roll calls during the hearing; debate about reporting, confidentiality and how to treat abortion data continued in committee records and in later floor work.","Lawmakers debated a bill that would repeal Department of Public Health clinic regulations; three amendments — one to require post‑second‑trimester abortions in licensed hospitals, one to restore DPH reporting rules, and one to require the repeal to go through regs review — were defeated on roll calls.","actionData","errors"]

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Committee endorses measure directing DMHAS to study and develop services for Internet gaming disorder

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Connecticut public health committee rejects amendments to require hospital-only third‑trimester abortions and to restore clinic reporting