Jenna Carlesso / CT Mirror
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For the third year in a row, an effort to ban flavored vaping products in Connecticut couldn’t muster enough support.
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Children 12 years old and younger whose guardians meet the qualifying income limit will be eligible for Medicaid coverage regardless of their immigration status beginning Jan 1.
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Lawmakers called the youth mental health crisis the “defining issue” of the legislative session.
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SB 1 would bolster mental health programs in schools, increase wages for child care workers and create a minority teacher scholarship fund, among other priorities, passed the Senate with a vote of 33 to 2.
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The Connecticut House of Representatives unanimously passed one of three major pieces of legislation that would improve access to mental health services for children, teens and young adults, with several members saying the proposal would save lives.
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The state’s health insurance exchange is opening a special enrollment period for low-income families that will run for the rest of the calendar year.
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Three ambitious bills that aim to tackle the growing crisis of children’s mental health in Connecticut would devote tens of millions in funding to a broad range of initiatives, including a grant program to attract and retain child psychiatrists, expanded mobile crisis services and additional staff across multiple state departments to manage new projects.
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More than 400 doctors, physician assistants, nurses and other health care providers signed a letter urging legislative leaders and Gov. Lamont to expand Medicaid to all low-income residents, regardless of immigration status.
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A bill that would allow terminally ill patients to access life-ending medication won’t advance beyond the legislature’s Judiciary Committee this year.
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The so-called aid in dying bill was voted out of the Public Health Committee on March 4 — just three weeks into the legislative session. It has been in limbo ever since.