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The order defines “medically vulnerable” as being “homebound”; requiring a lifesaving device that needs access to electricity, like an oxygen concentrator; in active treatment for cancer, “severe kidney/renal disease, or severe liver or heart conditions”; receiving Medicaid or Medicare-eligible “home-based” nursing services; or women in their third trimester of pregnancy.?

“Creating these new districts must be done right, must be done carefully and thoughtfully by the right people,” said Rep. Peter Conlon, D-Cornwall, chair of the House Education Committee

The “big bill,”?H.493, would allow the state’s Emergency Board to use a portion of the state’s “rainy day” fund to reduce the impacts of potential federal cuts. The board, which includes the governor and the chairs of the Legislature’s four taxing and spending committees, is able to meet when legislators aren’t in session.?

The admission sheds light on a secretive and little-known function of the state Department for Children and Families, one that top officials said helps protect newborns from potential abuse or danger.?

Most of the funds, about $5 million, were allocated for vaccination programs at the health department. The statement said the grants began during the pandemic but have continued to support the department’s work beyond the pandemic.?

The Waterbury shelter, located at the former National Guard armory, will remain open until June 13. The state is?extending a contract?with North Carolina-based?IEM International, Inc.?to continue operating the shelter until then.

The property owner sued Colchester in 2022, after town officials started eminent domain proceedings to seize the land. Aaron Frank, Colchester’s town manager, said in an email the town pursued condemnation of the property “for environmental and liability reasons.”

“We’re trying our hardest to, you know, do what we’re supposed to do and raise our family,” Chris Duprey said. A former construction worker, Duprey, who’s 46, fell off a roof and hurt his back about three years ago, inhibiting his ability to work. But now he is searching for a tent to sleep in when the family’s motel voucher is set to expire next month.

The settlement also includes restrictions on bonuses paid out to hospital executives. In the 2026 fiscal year, at least half of executives’ bonuses would be tied to specific factors: reducing the usage of emergency departments, payments from New York hospitals to Vermont hospitals, and reducing prices charged to commercial health insurers and revenue from those insurers.