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House Committee backs confidentiality protections for peer support counseling for emergency responders
Summary
The Vermont House moved H270 forward after a Health Care Committee recommendation to adopt a strike-all amendment. The bill would create confidentiality protections and a Public Records Act exemption for peer support communications among emergency service providers while enumerating statutory exceptions and retaining HIPAA obligations.
The Vermont House advanced H270 on second reading after a detailed committee report that recommends a strike-all amendment to establish confidentiality protections for peer support communications among emergency service providers.
Representative Leaders, speaking for the House Health Care Committee, said the bill would create "the support of a trained peer and to do so with the protections of confidentiality." The measure would add a new statutory section (identified in the committee report as 18 VSA 7257c) defining emergency service provider peer support programs, peer support…
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