The U.S. Senate gives its approval to a mental health parity bill, minus provisions that would have watered down key parts of Vermont’s existing parity law; State officials are encouraging Vermonters who have “advance directives” to put them in an online registry; Congressman Peter Welch is leading an effort to persuade the EPA to give Vermont, California and
other states permission to regulate how much greenhouse gas carbon dioxide can be emitted by cars; State officials raise the number of Southern
Vermont Correctional Facility prisoners affected with strep throat; and commentator Allen Gilbert says that changes in state law have made it
difficult for schools to address bullying.
