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House moves three mental-health bills from Human Services to Healthcare committee
Summary
The House voted to relieve the Human Services Committee of three bills on peer respite, peer support confidentiality and mental health programming and referred them to the Committee on Healthcare for further review.
The House voted to relieve the House Committee on Human Services of three bills and re-refer them to the Committee on Healthcare.
The member from Waterbury moved that House Bill 227, which would establish a residential peer respite facility in southern Vermont; House Bill 270, concerning confidentiality for peer support counseling among emergency service providers; and House Bill 323, concerning mental health programming funded by the Mental Health Innovation Special Fund, be transferred from Human Services to the Committee on Healthcare. The motion carried by voice vote on the floor: "The ayes do have it," the chair said.
Why it matters: the transfer moves the bills into a committee whose jurisdiction overlaps clinical and regulatory aspects of mental-health care, which may affect the bills' technical review, stakeholder hearings and timelines.
The House did not record individual roll-call votes on the floor for the referral; committee records will reflect further scheduling and hearings.
