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Senate Health & Welfare hears testimony on S.28 to expand provider protections, authorize remote questionnaires for medication abortion
Summary
Stakeholders told the Senate Health & Welfare Committee that S.28 would strengthen consumer protections and prescriber privacy, and asked lawmakers to refine broad unprofessional-conduct language while authorizing adaptive questionnaires for medication abortion under safeguards.
The Senate Committee on Health & Welfare on Feb. 13 heard testimony on S.28, an act described by witnesses as aiming to protect access to legally protected health care services and to clarify privacy and professional-conduct rules for clinicians.
Proponents and health-system representatives told the committee they generally support several provisions in S.28 but urged changes to avoid overly broad discipline standards and to add privacy and data‑sharing protections. Devin Green of the Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems, Jessica Barnard of the Vermont Medical Society, and Jessica Barquist, vice president of public affairs at Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, testified.
Supporters told the committee they back section 1s expansion of consumer‑protection language and changes that would let prescribers request that identifying contact…
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