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[Alyssa Black (Chair)]: Hi, welcome back everyone. We're going back to two seventy. The counselors made edits from this morning. Let's do a quick walkthrough of those and make sure we have all of our members with us.
[Katie McLean (Office of Legislative Counsel)]: Okay. Good afternoon. Katie McLean, Office of Legislative Counsel. You now have a draft 3.1 of H two seventy in front of you. You already saw the change in the title in lines eight and nine, peer support for emergency service providers. And then you have a replacement throughout the draft of sort of peer support specialists. You have emergency service peer support specialists. So the first time that appears is right here in Subdivision 6 A, but you'll see it throughout. Oops, emergency service peer support specialist. Yes. Here it is again on the top of page four. We have it in Subdivision B 1 A, a peer support program led by an emergency service peer support specialist. Again, in Subdivision B1B. In Subsection C, we have it twice. Or emergency service provider in a peer support session led by an emergency service peer support specialist. In D2, nothing in the section shall prohibit any communications between emergency service peer support specialists regarding a peer support session or between an emergency service peer support specialist. In subdivision B, nothing in this section shall prohibit an emergency service peer support specialist or an emergency service provider participating in a peer support session. I'm gonna pause there because that is the one where we spent some time talking about, well, it's not just the participant who we want to be able to speak. We want the emergency service peer support specialist to have that flexibility too. So this language tries to incorporate both parties. Nothing in this section shall prohibit an emergency service peer support specialist or an emergency service provider participating in a peer session from disclosing personal experiences or emotions, etcetera. That's fair. In Subsection E, we have the same swap out for emergency service peer support specialists instead of a peer support specialist. And then lastly, you have a new title of your bill, an act relating to confidentiality and peer support sessions for emergency service providers.
[Alyssa Black (Chair)]: I think it's great. Beautiful. Anybody have any questions? Everybody satisfied with the language of the bill?
[Brian Cina (Member)]: I wouldn't say I'm satisfied, but I'm accepting it. I don't feel like it covers enough, but it's a starting point and I'm not going to oppose it. I've talked about this already, still have providers, I'm so not gonna repeat myself. But yes, you did a good job, Katie, it's not your It's our policy decision that I have concerns about.
[Alyssa Black (Chair)]: It's gonna make sense. Yeah.
[Brian Cina (Member)]: She wants to make
[Alyssa Black (Chair)]: a motion. I would entertain a motion to support this previous bill as amended. I say which? Yep. Yeah, okay, I vote. 3.1, H270, the title of, An act relating to confidentiality in peer support sessions for emergency service providers. Is that clerk ready? Clerk ready? She ready? Will she commence to call the role? Yes. Yes, did, she wrote a play, Allen Demar.
[Allen "Penny" Demar (Member)]: Yes, I'm first.
[Alyssa Black (Chair)]: Oh, Wendy Critchlow. Critchlow. I'm gonna use the line. Is it right before me?
[Brian Cina (Member)]: You're in
[Alyssa Black (Chair)]: the middle of a vote. Figure it out. And Cina.
[Brian Cina (Member)]: Yes.
[Alyssa Black (Chair)]: Yes. Leslie Goldman. Yes. Lori Houghton. Yes. Karen Lueders. Yes. Debra Powers. Yes. Valerie Taylor. Daisy Berbeco. Yes. Francis McFaun.
[Francis McFaun (Vice Chair)]: Yes.
[Alyssa Black (Chair)]: Chittenden. Yes. 100. 500. Who's the reporter? Well, I have asked Karen to report to Bill. This will be on notice Tuesday. It doesn't need to go anywhere else, so it'll mean that they'll be up for action on Wednesday, and this is going to be Karen's first bill report. And she's going to do great, I know she's going do great, and we're all going to support her in that. All right. Thank you. I
[Brian Cina (Member)]: have have somebody else ask her the question. That's the case. I don't have any questions. You have to think of difficult questions for your colleague to ask her, the teacher.
[Alyssa Black (Chair)]: Unwritten rule. Questions from one another, we ask it.
[Brian Cina (Member)]: Yeah, we'll work on it. I'm going to come
[Alyssa Black (Chair)]: up with really difficult ones. Or you can ask somebody else. Okay, thank you everyone. Thanks for all your work on that. Really, everyone. I think it was an important job. Okay, so we're moving on to flip over my paper, five seventy seven. Markup and possible vote. Fin, do want to join us? We're gonna take a little, like a three minute break.