It’s unclear which chamber will take up the proposal first.
Public Health Committee
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Proposal to eliminate CT’s religious exemption for mandatory vaccines is headed for a vote. Here’s what’s in the bill.
Although the legislature’s public health committee has until April 7 to advance the bill, a vote is expected Wednesday.
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Aid-in-dying bill clears key hurdle with committee passage
The bill would let terminally ill patients access medication to end their lives.
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Lawmakers advanced a bill barring new religious exemptions to vaccines. Here’s what it would do.
As thousands of angry parents protested Monday, lawmakers advanced a bill eliminating the religious exemption to vaccines.
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Lawmakers to revive aid in dying, crisis pregnancy centers legislation
Aid in dying and the regulation of faith-based pregnancy centers are poised to return this legislative session.
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Bill allowing doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medication dies in committee
Strongly held religious beliefs and concerns from people with disabilities prevented the bill from advancing to the House.
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Lawmakers consider bill to permit marijuana use for opioid withdrawal
Supporters say medical marijuana can ease the symptoms of opioid withdrawal.
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Reforms to stem Whiting abuses head to the governor
Spurred by urgent demands that horrific abuse at Whiting Forensic never happen again, the state House of Representatives unanimously gave final approval to a series of reforms designed to increase oversight of the facility. The House vote was 148 to 0.
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After abuse scandal, CT lawmakers push to reform Whiting
About a year after cruel, ongoing abuse of a Whiting Forensic patient was revealed, the legislature’s Public Health Committee has reported out three bills aimed at reforming the state’s only maximum-security psychiatric facility by increasing transparency and oversight.
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Connecticut patient privacy rights bill needs citizen support
The State of Connecticut is on track to collect all of your medical insurance claims information into a large data base called the All-Payers Claims Database- APCD. Senate Bill 130 has been raised to allow patients a mechanism to prevent their data from being included in the APCD by using either an opt-in or opt-out option. This bill would make the APCD directly accountable to consumers for its actions as they would be able to choose who sees this medical information. But right now many state agencies have expressed opposition to that choice because of the cost and the possible decrease to the data base. So unless citizens express their support of SB 130 to the members of the Public Health Committee now, the bill may never get out of committee to go to the legislature for a vote, and we will lose this control over our medical information.