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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.

A bill that would allow terminally ill patients to access life-ending medication won’t advance beyond the legislature’s Judiciary Committee this year.

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.

Supporters of a bill that would allow terminally ill patients to access a lethal dose of medication are making a last-minute push to get the proposal to the Senate floor for a vote, but hopes are dimming for its passage this year.

State officials are encouraging people with multiple co-morbidities and older residents to get a second booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Advocates who had hoped to see another expansion of Medicaid coverage this year for children regardless of their immigration status are now calling for the proposal to be included in the state budget implementer, following a surprising defeat of the bill in committee.

Seeking to end federal oversight of the state Department of Children and Families, the state and plaintiffs in the decades-old Juan F. consent decree filed a motion on Monday to exit the arrangement.

A bill that would require the state’s to use 90% of their Medicaid funding on direct care for residents won’t advance out of the legislature’s Aging Committee this session, but proponents vowed to revive the measure next year.

Supports of a aid-in-dying bill say they have incorporated the needed revisions and will press for a vote in the House during the next legislative session.