• Goes into effect fully on January 1, 2025.

• Beginning July 1, 2023, Vermont state employees will be eligible to receive insurance coverage to provide 60 percent wage replacement for six weeks for qualified events.

Qualified Events Include:

1. The birth of a child and to care for the newborn child within one year of birth.
2. An employee’s adoption of a child or foster care placement, and to care for the newly placed child within one year of placement.
   Caring for the employee’s spouse, child, stepchild, foster child, ward who lives with the employee, parent or parent of the employee’s spouse who has a serious health condition.
3. A serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform the essential functions of their job; or
4. Any qualifying exigency arising out of the fact that the employee’s spouse, child, or parent is a covered military member on “covered active duty,” or to care for a covered service-member with a serious injury or illness if the eligible employee is the service-member’s spouse, son, daughter, parent, or next of kin (i.e. “military caregiver leave”).

Vermont's Program will include 3 Distinct Phases:

1. The first phase will begin exclusively for Vermont state employees on July 1, 2023.
2. The second phase will begin on July 1, 2024, and will see the expansion of the program to include other private and non-state public employers with two or more employees on a voluntary basis.
3. The third and final phase of the roll out will begin on July 1, 2025. The third phase will allow the following individuals to purchase coverage through the program via an individual purchasing pool: employees whose employers do not offer VT-FMLI, self-employed individuals, and employers with only one employee.