Vermont Statutes

Title 33 - Human Services

Chapter 1 - DEPARTMENT OF PREVENTION, ASSISTANCE, TRANSITION, (Contains: §§ 101 – 144)
- § 101 -   Social welfare policy of the state of Vermont
- § 102 -   Definitions and construction
- § 103 -   Composition of department
- § 104 -   Function and powers of department
- § 105 -   Commissioner; appointment, term, duties and powers
- § 111 -   Records, restrictions, penalties
- § 112 -   Banks and agencies to furnish information
- § 113 -   Desertion and nonsupport, information from governmental entities and public utilities
- § 114 -   Allocation of payments when appropriation insufficient
- § 115 -   Access to financial records of deposit accounts of individuals who owe overdue child support
- § 121 -   Cancellation of assistance or benefits
- § 122 -   Recovery of payments
- § 123 -   Guardian or legal representative
- § 124 -   Inalienability of assistance payments
- § 131 -   Repealed. 1995, No. 158 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. May 10, 1996.
- § 132 -   Remedies; penalty
- § 141 -   Fraud
- § 142 -   Bringing needy person into the state
- § 143 -   General penalty
- § 143a -   Civil remedies
- § 143b -   Education and information
- § 144 -   Statutory construction
Chapter 3 - DEPARTMENT FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES (Contains: §§ 301 – 324)
- § 301 -   Departmental services policy
- § 302 -   Definitions
- § 303 -   Composition of department
- § 304 -   Commissioner; appointment, term, duties, and powers
- § 305 -   Duties of department
- § 306 -   Administrative provisions
- § 307 -   Division of child development; duties
- § 308 -   Child care advisory board
- § 309 -   Access to records
- § 310 -   State-placed students
- § 311 -   Delinquent child services; purpose and responsibility
- § 321 -   Definition
- § 322 -   SANE board
- § 323 -   SANE program clinical coordinator
- § 324 -   SANE board; duties
Chapter 5 - DISABILITIES, AGING, AND INDEPENDENT LIVING PROGRA (Contains: §§ 501 – 505)
- § 501 -   Disabilities, aging, and independent living policy
- § 502 -   Definitions
- § 503 -   Composition of department
- § 504 -   Duties of department
- § 505 -   Advisory board
Chapter 6 - PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF SEXUAL ABUSE (Contains: §§ 601 – 601)
- § 601 -   Center for the prevention and treatment of sexual abuse
Chapter 7 - OFFICE OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE (Contains: §§ 701 – 708a)
- § 701 -   Declaration of policy
- § 702 -   Definitions
- § 703 -   Alcohol and drug abuse council; creation; terms; per diem
- § 704 -   Administrative support
- § 705 -   Duties
- § 706 -   Office of alcohol and drug abuse
- § 707 -   Authority and accountability for alcoholism services; rules for acceptance into treatment
- § 708 -   Treatment and services
- § 708a -   Incarceration for inebriation prohibited
Chapter 8 - ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE COUNSELORS (Contains: §§ 801 – 812)
- § 801 -   Definitions
- § 802 -   Prohibition; penalties
- § 803 -   Exemptions
- § 804 -   Coordination of practice acts
- § 805 -   Director; duties
- § 806 -   Advisor appointees
- § 807 -   Eligibility
- § 808 -   Application
- § 809 -   Biennial renewals
- § 810 -   Unprofessional conduct
- § 811 -   Regulatory fee fund
- § 812 -   Fees
Chapter 9 - DIVISION OF RATE SETTING (Contains: §§ 900 – 910)
- § 900 -   Definitions
- § 901 -   Reimbursement objectives
- § 902 -   Division of rate setting, director
- § 903 -   Division, staff
- § 904 -   Rate setting
- § 905 -   Basis for determination of nursing home rates
- § 906 -   Facility payment
- § 907 -   Payment limits
- § 908 -   Powers and duties
- § 909 -   Appeal
- § 910 -   Availability of payment for nursing home services
Chapter 10 - REACH FIRST (Contains: §§ 1001 – 1012)
- § 1001 -   Definitions
- § 1002 -   Purpose
- § 1003 -   Eligibility
- § 1004 -   Reach first payment
- § 1005 -   Required services to participating families
- § 1006 -   Case management; family development plans; coordinated services
- § 1007 -   Required participation
- § 1011 -   Transition to other programs
- § 1012 -   Notice and appeal
Chapter 11 - REACH UP (Contains: §§ 1101 – 1134)
- § 1101 -   Definitions
- § 1102 -   Purpose
- § 1103 -   Eligibility and benefit levels
- § 1104 -   Abandonment or desertion; reporting
- § 1105 -   Child support payments
- § 1106 -   Required services to participating families
- § 1107 -   Case management; family development plans; coordinated services
- § 1108 -   Obligation to assist eligible families with dependent children
- § 1112 -   Family development plan requirements
- § 1113 -   Work requirements
- § 1114 -   Deferments, modifications, and referral
- § 1115 -   Obligation to fund services; good cause
- § 1116 -   Sanctions
- § 1121 -   Authorization to segregate state funds and create separate state and solely state-funded programs
- § 1122 -   Postsecondary education program
- § 1123 -   Individual development savings program
- § 1131 -   Administrative improvements
- § 1132 -   Notice and appeal
- § 1133 -   Transition to other programs
- § 1134 -   Program evaluation
Chapter 12 - REACH AHEAD (Contains: §§ 1201 – 1213)
- § 1201 -   Definitions
- § 1202 -   Purpose
- § 1203 -   Eligibility
- § 1203a -   Application of 21 U.S.C. § 862a
- § 1204 -   Food assistance
- § 1205 -   Required services to participating families
- § 1206 -   Case management; family development plans; coordinated services
- § 1211 -   Recertification
- § 1212 -   Transition to other programs
- § 1213 -   Notice and appeal
Chapter 13 - AID TO THE AGED, BLIND AND DISABLED (Contains: §§ 1301 – 1309)
- § 1301 -   Eligibility requirements-General
- § 1302 -   State aid to the aged
- § 1303 -   State aid to the disabled
- § 1304 -   State aid to the blind
- § 1305 -   Disqualifications
- § 1306 -   Application and investigation
- § 1307 -   Amount of state aid
- § 1308 -   Regulations
- § 1309 -   Agreements
Chapter 15 - SPECIAL SERVICES FOR THE BLIND (Contains: §§ 1501 – 1502)
- § 1501 -   Register
- § 1502 -   Services for the blind
Chapter 17 - FEDERAL SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFITS (Contains: §§ 1701 – 1701)
- § 1701 -   Supplemental nutrition assistance program
Chapter 19 - MEDICAL ASSISTANCE (Contains: §§ 1901 – 2081)
- § 1901 -   Administration of program
- § 1901a -   Medicaid budget
- § 1901b -   Pharmacy program enrollment
- § 1901c -   Medical care advisory committee
- § 1901d -   State health care resources fund
- § 1901e -   Global commitment fund
- § 1902 -   Qualification for medical assistance
- § 1903 -   Contract authorized
- § 1903a -   Chronic care management program
- § 1904 -   Definitions
- § 1905 -   Disproportionate share program
- § 1906 -   Recoupment of amounts spent on child medical care
- § 1906a -   Recovery against estate; homestead exemptions
- § 1907 -   Subrogation
- § 1908 -   Medicaid; payer of last resort; release of information
- § 1908a -   Vermont partnership for long-term care
- § 1909 -   Direct payments to agency; discharge of insurer's obligation
- § 1910 -   Liability of third parties; liens
- § 1911 -   Tobacco manufacturers; liability for Medicaid expenditures
- § 1912 -   Findings and purpose
- § 1913 -   Definitions
- § 1914 -   Requirements
- § 1915 -   Findings and purpose
- § 1916 -   Definitions
- § 1917 -   Certifications
- § 1918 -   Directory of cigarettes approved for stamping and sale
- § 1919 -   Prohibition against the stamping and sale of cigarettes not included in the directory
- § 1920 -   Agent for service of process
- § 1921 -   Reporting and sharing of information
- § 1922 -   Quarterly escrow deposits
- § 1923 -   Penalties and other remedies
- § 1924 -   Miscellaneous provisions
- § 1950 -   Purpose
- § 1951 -   Definitions
- § 1952 -   General provisions
- § 1953 -   Hospital assessment
- § 1954 -   Nursing home assessment
- § 1955 -   ICF/MR assessment
- § 1955a -   Home health agency assessment
- § 1955b -   Pharmacy assessment
- § 1956 -   Proceeds from assessments
- § 1957 -   Audits
- § 1958 -   Appeals
- § 1971 -   Definitions
- § 1972 -   Repealed. 2005, No. 93 (Adj. Sess.), § 16.
- § 1973 -   Vermont health access plan
- § 1974 -   Employer-sponsored insurance, premium assistance
- § 1981 -   Policy and purpose
- § 1982 -   Definitions
- § 1983 -   Eligibility
- § 1984 -   Individual contributions
- § 1985 -   Administration
- § 1986 -   Catamount fund
- § 1991 -   1991-1996. Repealed. 2005, No. 71, § 321(a), eff. January 1, 2006.
- § 1997 -   Definitions
- § 1998 -   Pharmacy best practices and cost control program established
- § 1998a -   Pharmacy mail order
- § 1999 -   Consumer protection rules; prior authorization
- § 2000 -   Pharmacy benefit management
- § 2001 -   Legislative oversight
- § 2002 -   Supplemental rebates
- § 2003 -   Pharmacy discount plans
- § 2004 -   Manufacturer fee
- § 2004a -   Evidence-based education and advertising fund
- § 2005 -   2005-2006. Recodified. 2007, No. 80, § 23.
- § 2007 -   Canadian prescription drug information program
- § 2008 -   Recodified. 2007, No. 80, § 23.
- § 2009 -   Repealed. 2007, No. 80, § 24.
- § 2010 -   Actual price disclosure and certification
- § 2071 -   Definitions
- § 2072 -   General eligibility
- § 2073 -   VPharm assistance program
- § 2074 -   VermontRx program
- § 2075 -   Assistance in enrolling in Medicare Part D
- § 2076 -   Over-the-counter and generic medications
- § 2077 -   Administration
- § 2078 -   Education and outreach
- § 2079 -   Construction
- § 2080 -   Vermont prescription drug pricing and consumer protection program
- § 2081 -   Rules and legislative oversight
Chapter 21 - GENERAL ASSISTANCE (Contains: §§ 2101 – 2114)
- § 2101 -   Definitions
- § 2102 -   Town service officer, appointment, duties, compensation
- § 2103 -   Eligibility
- § 2104 -   Application or information
- § 2105 -   Action on application or information
- § 2106 -   Limitation on liability for medical assistance
- § 2107 -   Disqualification
- § 2108 -   Residential weatherization for fuel assistance recipients
- § 2109 -   Relief by private persons and hospitals
- § 2110 -   Reimbursement for relief expenditures
- § 2111 -   Death
- § 2112 -   Persons outside house, hospital or jail
- § 2113 -   Action for recovery of expenditures
- § 2114 -   Rental or mortgage arrearage program
Chapter 23 - BURIALS AT PUBLIC EXPENSE (Contains: §§ 2301 – 2302)
- § 2301 -   Burial responsibility
- § 2302 -   Use for advancement of anatomical science
Chapter 25 - HOME WEATHERIZATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (Contains: §§ 2501 – 2503)
- § 2501 -   Home weatherization assistance trust fund
- § 2501a -   Office of home energy assistance
- § 2502 -   Home weatherization assistance program
- § 2503 -   Fuel gross receipts tax
Chapter 26 - HOME HEATING FUEL ASSISTANCE (Contains: §§ 2601 – 2609)
- § 2601 -   Policy and purpose
- § 2601a -   Definitions
- § 2602 -   Administration
- § 2603 -   Home heating fuel assistance fund
- § 2604 -   Eligible beneficiaries; requirements
- § 2605 -   Benefit amounts
- § 2606 -   Application period; assistance
- § 2607 -   Payments to fuel suppliers
- § 2608 -   Weatherization program agreements
- § 2609 -   Crisis reserves
Chapter 31 - GOVERNOR'S COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH (Contains: §§ 3101 – 3101)
- § 3101 -   3101-3105. Repealed. 1995, No. 188 (Adj. Sess.), § 4.
Chapter 33 - PREVENTION OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND OTHER PROBL (Contains: §§ 3301 – 3308)
- § 3301 -   Definitions
- § 3302 -   Children and family council for prevention programs
- § 3303 -   Council; duties
- § 3304 -   State primary prevention plan
- § 3305 -   Implementation and evaluation of plan
- § 3306 -   Children's trust fund
- § 3307 -   Trust fund programs
- § 3308 -   Annual report
Chapter 35 - CHILD CARE (Contains: §§ 3501 – 3531)
- § 3501 -   Foster care and placement licensing
- § 3502 -   Child care facilities; school age care in public schools; 21st century fund
- § 3503 -   Corporal punishment prohibited
- § 3511 -   Definitions
- § 3512 -   Child care services program; eligibility
- § 3513 -   Protective and family support child care services
- § 3514 -   Payment to providers
- § 3521 -   Child care facilities financing program established; advisory board
- § 3522 -   Loan program
- § 3523 -   Repealed. 1995, No. 188, § 4.
- § 3531 -   Child care - Building bright spaces for bright futures funds
Chapter 37 - PARENT-CHILD CENTER PROGRAM (Contains: §§ 3701 – 3703)
- § 3701 -   Parent-child center program; eligibility
- § 3702 -   Repealed. 1995, No. 188, § 4.
- § 3703 -   Report
Chapter 39 - ENFORCEMENT OF SUPPORT (Contains: §§ 3901 – 3904)
- § 3901 -   Definitions
- § 3902 -   Assignment of support rights by public assistance recipients; proceedings to establish support obligation
- § 3902a -   Repealed. 1989, No. 221 (Adj. Sess.), § 21(a)(2), eff. Oct. 1, 1990.
- § 3903 -   Child support debt
- § 3903a -   Repealed. 1989, No. 221 (Adj. Sess.), § 21(a)(3), eff. Oct. 1, 1990.
- § 3903b -   Repealed. 1989, No. 221 (Adj. Sess.), § 21(a)(4), eff. Oct. 1, 1990.
- § 3903c -   Repealed. 1989, No. 221 (Adj. Sess.), § 21(a)(5), eff. Oct. 1, 1990.
- § 3904 -   Distribution of proceeds
Chapter 41 - OFFICE OF CHILD SUPPORT (Contains: §§ 4101 – 4110)
- § 4101 -   Office of child support; designation as IV-D agency; legislative purpose
- § 4102 -   Responsibilities
- § 4103 -   Registry
- § 4104 -   Support overpayment
- § 4105 -   Access to information; disclosure and confidentiality
- § 4106 -   Assignment of rights
- § 4107 -   Office of child support; access to motor vehicle information; criminal record information
- § 4108 -   Grievance procedure
- § 4109 -   Office of child support; use of federal parent locator service
- § 4110 -   Employer obligations
Chapter 43 - CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH SEVERE EMOTIONAL DIS (Contains: §§ 4301 – 4305)
- § 4301 -   Definitions
- § 4302 -   State interagency team
- § 4303 -   Local interagency teams
- § 4304 -   Repealed. 1987, No. 264 (Adj. Sess.), § 17, eff. Jan. 15, 1992.
- § 4304a -   Advisory board
- § 4305 -   Coordinated system of care
Chapter 45 - CHILDREN'S COMPREHENSIVE DENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM (Contains: §§ 4501 – 4510)
- § 4501 -   Definitions
- § 4502 -   Formulation and administration of a comprehensive dental program
- § 4503 -   Provision of care
- § 4504 -   Payments to providers
- § 4505 -   Cooperation of private dentists
- § 4506 -   Types of services
- § 4507 -   Eligibility
- § 4508 -   Comprehensive dental health
- § 4509 -   Education
- § 4510 -   Double coverage limitations
Chapter 47 - CHILDREN AT RISK OF SCHOOL FAILURE (Contains: §§ 4701 – 4702)
- § 4701 -   Legislative findings and purpose
- § 4702 -   System for services to children at risk of school failure
Chapter 49 - CHILD WELFARE SERVICES (Contains: §§ 4901 – 4923)
- § 4901 -   Statement of purposes
- § 4902 -   Definitions
- § 4903 -   Responsibility of department
- § 4904 -   Foster care; transitional youth services
- § 4911 -   Purpose
- § 4912 -   Definitions
- § 4913 -   Suspected child abuse and neglect; remedial action
- § 4914 -   Nature and content of report; to whom made
- § 4915 -   Assessment and investigation
- § 4915a -   Procedures for assessment
- § 4915b -   Procedures for investigation
- § 4916 -   Child protection registry
- § 4916a -   Challenging placement on the registry
- § 4916b -   Human services board hearing
- § 4916c -   Petition for expungement from the registry
- § 4916d -   Automatic expungement of registry records
- § 4916e -   Notice to minors
- § 4917 -   Multidisciplinary teams; empaneling
- § 4918 -   Multidisciplinary teams; functions; guidelines
- § 4919 -   Disclosure of registry records
- § 4920 -   Repealed. 2007, No. 168 (Adj. Sess.), § 16.
- § 4921 -   Department's records of abuse and neglect
- § 4922 -   Rulemaking
- § 4923 -   Reporting
Chapter 51 - GENERAL PROVISIONS (Contains: §§ 5101 – 5123)
- § 5101 -   Purposes
- § 5102 -   Definitions and provisions of general application
- § 5103 -   Jurisdiction
- § 5104 -   Retention of jurisdiction over youthful offenders
- § 5105 -   Venue and change of venue
- § 5106 -   Powers and duties of commissioner
- § 5107 -   Contempt power
- § 5108 -   Authority to issue warrants
- § 5109 -   Subpoena
- § 5110 -   Conduct of hearings
- § 5111 -   Noncustodial parents
- § 5112 -   Attorney and guardian ad litem for child
- § 5113 -   Modification or vacation of orders
- § 5114 -   Best interests of the child
- § 5115 -   Protective order
- § 5116 -   Costs and expenses for care of child
- § 5117 -   Records of juvenile judicial proceedings
- § 5118 -   Limited exception to confidentiality of records of juveniles maintained by the family court
- § 5119 -   Sealing of records
- § 5120 -   Indian Child Welfare Act
- § 5121 -   Case planning process
- § 5122 -   Misconduct during court proceedings
- § 5123 -   Transportation of a child
Chapter 52 - DELINQUENCY PROCEEDINGS (Contains: §§ 5201 – 5293)
- § 5201 -   Commencement of delinquency proceedings
- § 5202 -   Order of adjudication; noncriminal
- § 5203 -   Transfer from other courts
- § 5204 -   Transfer from juvenile court
- § 5205 -   Fingerprints; photographs
- § 5221 -   Citation and notice to appear at preliminary hearing
- § 5222 -   Petition; contents
- § 5223 -   Filing of petition
- § 5224 -   Failure to appear at preliminary hearing
- § 5225 -   Preliminary hearing
- § 5226 -   Notification of conditions of release to victim in delinquency proceedings
- § 5227 -   Timelines for pretrial and merits hearing
- § 5228 -   Constitutional protections for a child in delinquency proceedings
- § 5229 -   Merits adjudication
- § 5230 -   Disposition case plan
- § 5231 -   Disposition hearing
- § 5232 -   Disposition order
- § 5233 -   Victim's statement at disposition proceeding; victim notification
- § 5234 -   Rights of victims in delinquency proceedings involving a listed crime
- § 5235 -   Juvenile restitution
- § 5251 -   Taking into custody
- § 5252 -   Request for emergency care order
- § 5253 -   Emergency care order; conditional custody order
- § 5254 -   Notice of emergency care order and temporary care hearing
- § 5255 -   Temporary care hearing
- § 5256 -   Temporary care order
- § 5257 -   Filing of initial case plan
- § 5258 -   Postdisposition review and permanency review for delinquents in custody
- § 5261 -   Powers and responsibilities of the commissioner regarding juvenile probation
- § 5262 -   Conditions of probation
- § 5263 -   Juvenile probation certificate
- § 5264 -   Modification of conditions
- § 5265 -   Violation of conditions of probation
- § 5266 -   Summons, apprehension, and detention of juvenile probationer
- § 5267 -   Detention hearing
- § 5268 -   Notice; violation hearing
- § 5269 -   Disposition alternatives upon violation of conditions of probation
- § 5270 -   Final judgment
- § 5271 -   Discharge from probation
- § 5272 -   Juvenile justice unit; juvenile justice director
- § 5281 -   Motion in district court
- § 5282 -   Report from the department
- § 5283 -   Hearing in family court
- § 5284 -   Determination and order
- § 5285 -   Modification or revocation of disposition
- § 5286 -   Review prior to the age of 18
- § 5287 -   Termination or continuance of probation
- § 5288 -   Rights of victims in youthful offender proceedings
- § 5291 -   Detention of minors charged as delinquents in a secure facility for the detentionof delinquent children
- § 5292 -   Detention in adult facilities of minors charged or adjudicated as delinquents
- § 5293 -   Disposition of minors adjudicated as adult offenders; separation of persons under18 years from adults
Chapter 53 - CHILDREN IN NEED OF CARE OR SUPERVISION (Contains: §§ 5301 – 5322)
- § 5301 -   Taking into custody
- § 5302 -   Request for emergency care order
- § 5303 -   Procedure for runaway children
- § 5304 -   Designated shelters for runaway children
- § 5305 -   Emergency care order; conditional custody order
- § 5306 -   Notice of emergency care order and temporary care hearing
- § 5307 -   Temporary care hearing
- § 5308 -   Temporary care order
- § 5309 -   Filing of a petition
- § 5310 -   Petition, contents
- § 5311 -   Service of summons and petition; no request for temporary care order
- § 5312 -   Failure to appear at preliminary hearing
- § 5313 -   Timelines for pretrial and merits hearing
- § 5314 -   Filing of initial case plan
- § 5315 -   Merits adjudication
- § 5316 -   Disposition case plan
- § 5317 -   Disposition hearing
- § 5318 -   Disposition order
- § 5319 -   Parent-child contact and contact with siblings and relatives
- § 5320 -   Postdisposition review hearing
- § 5321 -   Permanency hearing
- § 5322 -   Placement of a child in a facility used for treatment of delinquent children
Chapter 55 - JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS (Contains: §§ 5501 – 5550)
- § 5501 -   5501-5541. Repealed. 2007, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 13, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.
- § 5550 -   5550-5562. Repealed. 2007, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 13, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.
Chapter 57 - INTERSTATE COMPACT ON JUVENILES (Contains: §§ 5701 – 5715)
- § 5701 -   Execution of compact
- § 5702 -   Execution of additional article
- § 5703 -   Execution of amendment
- § 5711 -   Juvenile compact administrator
- § 5712 -   Supplementary agreements
- § 5713 -   Payments by state
- § 5714 -   Enforcement of compact
- § 5715 -   Additional procedure for return of juveniles
Chapter 58 - WOODSIDE JUVENILE REHABILITATION CENTER (Contains: §§ 5801 – 5802)
- § 5801 -   Woodside juvenile rehabilitation center
- § 5802 -   Separation of victim of sexual assault and perpetrator
Chapter 59 - INTERSTATE COMPACT ON THE PLACEMENT OF CHILDREN (Contains: §§ 5901 – 5927)
- § 5901 -   Purpose and policy-Article 1
- § 5902 -   Definitions-Article II
- § 5903 -   Conditions for placement-Article III
- § 5904 -   Penalty for illegal placement-Article IV
- § 5905 -   Retention of jurisdiction-Article V
- § 5906 -   Institutional care of delinquent children-Article VI
- § 5907 -   Compact administrator-Article VII
- § 5908 -   Limitations-Article VIII
- § 5909 -   Enactment and withdrawal-Article IX
- § 5910 -   Construction and severability-Article X
- § 5921 -   Financial responsibility
- § 5922 -   Appropriate public authorities
- § 5923 -   Commissioner of social and rehabilitation services
- § 5924 -   Agreements
- § 5925 -   Placement of delinquent children
- § 5926 -   Placement of neglected or unmanageable children
- § 5927 -   Executive head
Chapter 61 - VERMONT INDEPENDENCE FUND (Contains: §§ 6101 – 6105)
- § 6101 -   Policy and purpose
- § 6102 -   Independence fund
- § 6103 -   Independence board
- § 6104 -   Specific powers and duties
- § 6105 -   Repealed. 2009, No. 33, § 83(n)(3).
Chapter 63 - HOME CARE PROGRAMS (Contains: §§ 6301 – 6321)
- § 6301 -   6301-6303. Repealed. 2005, No. 57, § 7, eff. June 13, 2005.
- § 6302 -   Definitions
- § 6303 -   Home health services; local plans; board composition
- § 6304 -   Designation; geographic service areas
- § 6305 -   Review of access, cost, and quality issues; remediation process
- § 6306 -   Collaboration and shared service agreements
- § 6307 -   Contracts with nondesignated agencies
- § 6308 -   Complaint process
- § 6321 -   Attendant care services
Chapter 65 - MEDICARE AND GENERAL ASSISTANCE BENEFICIARIES; BAL (Contains: §§ 6501 – 6508)
- § 6501 -   Definitions
- § 6502 -   Balance billing prohibited
- § 6503 -   Exceptions
- § 6504 -   Medicare beneficiary to sign statement
- § 6505 -   Assistance with claims required
- § 6506 -   Posting
- § 6507 -   Administration; enforcement
- § 6508 -   Report required
Chapter 67 - MEDICARE ADVOCACY PROGRAM (Contains: §§ 6701 – 6706)
- § 6701 -   Definitions
- § 6702 -   Program established
- § 6703 -   Contract for services
- § 6704 -   Charges
- § 6705 -   Subrogation
- § 6706 -   Independent analysis
Chapter 69 - REPORTS OF ABUSE, NEGLECT AND EXPLOITATION OF VULN (Contains: §§ 6901 – 6941)
- § 6901 -   Purpose
- § 6902 -   Definitions
- § 6903 -   Reporting suspected abuse, neglect, and exploitation of vulnerable adults
- § 6904 -   Nature and content of report; to whom made
- § 6905 -   Mandatory reporting to and post-mortem investigation of deaths by medical examiner
- § 6906 -   Investigation
- § 6907 -   Remedial action
- § 6908 -   Immunity from liability
- § 6909 -   Retaliatory action by employer prohibited
- § 6910 -   Interference by caregiver
- § 6911 -   Records of abuse, neglect, and exploitation
- § 6912 -   Public education and disclosure of rights and duties; posting of notice
- § 6913 -   Penalties; abuse; neglect; exploitation; mandatory reporter's failure to report
- § 6914 -   Access to criminal records
- § 6931 -   Definitions
- § 6932 -   Jurisdiction and venue
- § 6933 -   Request for relief
- § 6934 -   Notice
- § 6935 -   Findings and order
- § 6936 -   Emergency relief; hearings
- § 6937 -   Service
- § 6938 -   Procedure
- § 6939 -   Filing orders with law enforcement personnel; department of public safety protection order database
- § 6940 -   Enforcement
- § 6941 -   Appeals
Chapter 71 - REGULATION OF LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES (Contains: §§ 7101 – 7217)
- § 7101 -   Policy
- § 7102 -   Definitions
- § 7103 -   License
- § 7104 -   Application
- § 7105 -   License requirements
- § 7106 -   Variance
- § 7107 -   Unlicensed homes
- § 7108 -   Inspection; technical assistance
- § 7109 -   Investigation; complaint
- § 7110 -   Violation; notice
- § 7111 -   Enforcement; protection of residents
- § 7112 -   Confidential information
- § 7113 -   Repealed. 2009, No. 36, § 1.
- § 7114 -   Report
- § 7115 -   Exception
- § 7116 -   Criminal penalty
- § 7117 -   Rules
- § 7118 -   Appeals
- § 7201 -   Policy
- § 7202 -   Application for receiver
- § 7203 -   Appointment of temporary receiver
- § 7204 -   Appointment of receiver; notice
- § 7205 -   Appointment of receiver; recommendations by licensing agency
- § 7206 -   Appointment of receiver; hearing and order
- § 7207 -   Powers and duties of receiver
- § 7208 -   Limitations; corrections of conditions
- § 7209 -   Limitations; payment of debts
- § 7210 -   Limitations; authority to borrow
- § 7211 -   Limitations; closure of the facility
- § 7212 -   Writ of possession
- § 7213 -   Attachment; trustee process
- § 7214 -   Avoidance of contracts
- § 7215 -   Obligations of the owner or licensee
- § 7216 -   Review and termination
- § 7217 -   Duties of licensing agency
Chapter 73 - NURSING HOME RESIDENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS (Contains: §§ 7301 – 7306)
- § 7301 -   Nursing home residents' bill of rights
- § 7302 -   Adoption of grievance procedure
- § 7303 -   Notice to residents; posting
- § 7304 -   Administrative penalty
- § 7305 -   Readmission
- § 7306 -   Resident's representative
Chapter 75 - STATE LONG-TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN (Contains: §§ 7501 – 7510)
- § 7501 -   Definitions
- § 7502 -   Office of the long-term care ombudsman established
- § 7503 -   Responsibilities of the office
- § 7504 -   Authority of the state ombudsman
- § 7505 -   Cooperation of state agencies
- § 7506 -   Disclosure of information
- § 7507 -   Immunity
- § 7508 -   Interference and retaliation
- § 7509 -   Conflict of interest
- § 7510 -   Legal assistance
Chapter 77 - VERMONT ADAPTIVE EQUIPMENT REVOLVING FUND (Contains: §§ 7701 – 7701)
- § 7701 -   7701-7708. Repealed. 2007, No. 65, § 404(c), eff. June 7, 2007.
Chapter 78 - INDIVIDUALS WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI) (Contains: §§ 7801 – 7801)
- § 7801 -   Vermont traumatic brain injury fund
Chapter 79 - ADVISORY COUNCIL ON SPINAL CORD AND HEAD INJURIES (Contains: §§ 7901 – 7901)
- § 7901 -   7901-7903. [Expired.].