Legislative Reports and Budgets

Act 26 (2019)

• Analysis of Need: Residential Mental Health Beds (January 15, 2020)

Act 35 (2007)

• Success Beyond Six, Section 2 - 18 V.S.A. (January 15, 2008)

Act 46 (2015)

• Coordination of Educational and Social Services, Section 49 (January 15, 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 15, 2014)

Act 72 (2019)

• Review of Success Beyond Six; School Mental Health Services (January 15, 2020)

Act 78 (2017)

• Memorandum of Understanding between DMH and DOC (July 2017)
• Act 78 Summary Section 6.1 (2017)

Act 79 (2012)

• Act 79 Reforming Vermont's Mental Health System: Report to the Legislature (January 15, 2022)
• Reforming Vermont's Mental Health System: Report to the Leigislature on the Implemetation of Act 79 (January 15, 2021)
• Act 79 Reforming Vermont's Mental Health System: Report to the Legislature on the Implementation of Act 79 (January 15, 2020)
• Act 79 Final Report (January 2019)
• Reforming Vermont's Mental Health System Report to the Legislature on the Implementation of Act 79 (January 15, 2018)
• Act 79 Report (February 2017) and Memo Correction to 2017 Act 79 Report (February 22, 2017)
• Act 79 Revised (January 2016)

Act 82 (2017)

• Data Collection and Report; Patients Seeking Mental Health Care in Hospital Settings (January 31, 2019)

• 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)
• Report to the Legislature on the Implementation of Act 82 (September 1, 2017)
• Report to the Legislature on the Implementation of Act 82 (sections three and four) and (section 5) (December 15, 2017) and (TAC Report - Reimagining ONH) 

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: July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020 (January 2021)
• The Implementation of Act 114: July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019 (February 2020)
• The Implementation of Act 114: July 1, 2017-June 30, 2018 (January 15, 2019)
• The Implementation of Act 114: December 1, 2016-September 30, 2017 (January 22, 2018)
• Implementation of Act 114 Report from the Commissioner (January 2017)
• An Independent Study of the Administration of Involuntary Non-Emergency Medications Under Act 114 (January 15, 2017)
• The Implementation of Act 114  (January 2016)

Act 140

• Act 140, Section 5: Brattleboro Retreat Conditions of Funding A 2021 Report to the Legislature

Act 200

• Vision 2030 A 10 Year Plan for Intergrated and Holistic System of Care (January 29, 2020)
• Act 200 Section 7 Report (January 31, 2020)
• Act 200 Section 9 Report (March 25, 2019
• Act 200 ONH Study Legislative Report (December 1, 2018)
• Act 200 Section 7 Report (January 31, 2019)

Brattleboro Retreat & Vermont Agency of Human Services

• Final Report on Steps to Improve Communication & Employee Relations at the Brattleboro Retreat (January 27, 2021)

S.302

• Mobile Response and Stablization 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.  The full legislation can be found here.

• Duty to Warn (2017)
• Peggy's Law (2002)
• Secure Residential Facility: Plan for Siting and Design (February 22, 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