Legislative Reports and Budgets

Act 26 (2019)

• Analysis of Need: Residential Mental Health Beds (January 2019)

Act 35 (2007)

• Success Beyond Six, Section 2 - 18 V.S.A. (January 2008)

Act 46 (2015)

• Coordination of Educational and Social Services, Section 49 (January 2016)

Act 50

• Residential beds for Individuals Discharged from Inpatient Psychiatric Care Act 50, Sec. 27 (January 15, 2022)

Act 64 (2013)

• School-Based Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services: Study Section 4 (January 2014)

Act 72 (2019)

• Review of Success Beyond Six; School Mental Health Services (January 2020)

Act 78 (2017)

• Memorandum of Understanding DMH and DOC (July 2017)
• Act 78 Corrections Offenders with Mental Illness (2017)

Act 79 (2012)

• Act 79 Reforming Vermont's Mental Health System: Report to the Legislature (January 2021)
• Act 79 Reforming Vermont's Mental Health System: Report to the Legislature (January 2020)
• Act 79 Reforming Vermont's Mental Health System: Report to the Legislature (January 2019)
• Act 79 Reforming Vermont's Mental Health System: Report to the Legislature (January 2018)
• Act 79 Reforming Vermont's Mental Health System: Report to the Legislature (February 2017) 
• Act 79 Reforming Vermont's Mental Health System: Report to the Legislature (January 2016)

Act 82 (2017)

• Act 82 Data Collection and Report; Patients Seeking Mental Health Care in Hospital Settings (January 2019)

• Act 82 Evaluation of the Overarching Structure for the Delivery of Mental Health Services (January 2019) 

• Responses to Data Inquiries regarding Act 82 and Act 84 AHS Legislative Reports (February 2018)
• Reforming Vermont's Mental Health System: Report to the Legislature on the Implementation of Act 82 (September 2017)
• Reforming Vermont's Mental Health System: Report to the Legislature on the Implementation of Act 82 (Sections three and four) and (Section 5) (December 2017)
• Reimagining ONH: A Report to the Vermont Department of Mental Health (October 2017)

Act 114 (1998)

• An Independent Study of the Administration of Involuntary Non-Emergency Medications Under Act 114 (18 V.S.A. 7624 et seq.) During FY 2020 (February 2021)
  • Addendum to Act 114 Report (February 9, 2021)
• The Implementation of Act 114 Report to the Commissioner FY2020 (2021)
• The Implementation of Act 114 Report to the Commissioner FY2019 (February 2020)
• The Implementation of Act 114 Report to the Commissioner FY2018 (January 15, 2019)
• The Implementation of Act 114 Report to the Commissioner: December 2016 through September 2017 (January 22, 2018)
• Implementation of Act 114 Report from the Commissioner: December 2015 through September 2016 (January 2017)
• An Independent Study of the Administration of Involuntary Non-Emergency Medications Under Act 114 (January 15, 2017)
• The Implementation of Act 114 in Vermont: Report to the General Assembly (January 2016)

Act 140

• Act 140 Brattleboro Retreat Conditions of Funding A 2021 Report to the Legislature

Act 200

• Vision 2030 A 10 Year Plan for Integrated and Holistic System of Care (January 2020)
• Act 200 Data Collection and Report; Patients Seeking Mental Health Care in Hospital Settings (January 2020)
• Act 200 Evaluation of the Overarching Structure for the Delivery of Mental Health Services Report (March 2019)
• Act 200 Reforming Vermont’s Mental Health System Report to the Legislature on the Implementation (December 2018)
• Act 200 Data Collection and Report; Patients Seeking Mental Health Care in Hospital Settings 2019(January 2019)

Brattleboro Retreat & Vermont Agency of Human Services

• Final Report on Steps to Improve Communication & Employee Relations at the Brattleboro Retreat (January 2021)

S.302

• Mobile Response and Stabilization Services (MRSS) for Children in Vermont (February 2020)

Other

• During the 2017 Legislative session, Act 35 Minor Consent for Outpatient Mental Health Treatment was passed and went into effect on January 1, 2018. The Department of Mental Health received many questions related to this bill. While we understand the desire for more guidelines related to this new legislation, we understand from the Legislature it is not their expectation or desire that the Department of Mental Health provide those guidelines.  Their intent is to keep the legislation as open as possible. Therefore, we requested the Committees that were key on passing this bill to provide some clarification on their legislative intent. Click here for a link to the clarification.  

• Duty to Warn (2017)
• Peggy's Law (2002)
• Secure Residential Facility: Plan for Siting and Design (February 2016)

Proposed FY 2022 Department of Mental Health Budget 

• FY22 Budget Detail
• FY22 Budget Rollup
• FY22 Position Summary
• FY22 Federal Receipts
• FY22 Grants Out Inventory
• FY22 Interdepartmental Transfers Inventory Report
• FY22 Fund and Account
• FY22 Budget Major Object Report