The 15% local share is allocated to participating counties, cities, and towns according to Exhibit G of the national settlement agreements.[1]
Non-participating subdivisions’ amounts are reallocated to the Abatement Fund,[2] and Vermont’s counties may also redirect their shares to the Fund.[3]
With limited exceptions,[4] this share must be spent on the uses described in the national settlement agreement’s (non-exhaustive) Exhibit E,[5] which includes prevention, harm reduction, treatment, recovery, and other strategies.
Local governments decide autonomously. Decisionmakers for the participating counties, cities, and towns will ultimately decide for themselves how to spend their monies on Exhibit E uses.[6]
No, supplantation is not prohibited. Vermont does not explicitly prohibit supplantation uses of funds from its 15% local share. This means that the local share may be spent in ways that replace (or “supplant”) — rather than supplement — existing resources.
Up to each locality (neither public nor intrastate reporting required). Opioid settlement expenditures are not officially published in a centralized location for this share.
Visit OpioidSettlementTracker.com’s for an updated collection of states’ and localities’ available expenditure reports.
Not applicable.
. September 14, 2021. Accessed August 28, 2024 (“15% to state subdivisions to be used to abate the opioid crisis”). (“Exhibit G provides the calculation of the relative allocation of funds available to the respective subdivision as a portion of the 15% subdivision settlement bucket” and “Vermont subdivisions with populations under 10,000 will be allocated modest sums as part of the subdivision bucket. If they sign a release, they will receive those sums directly. If they do not sign a release, the sums allocated to them will go to the Abatement Fund”). See also 18 V.S.A. Sec. 4771 (“While an opioid litigation settlement may designate a portion of the monies for local or State use, this subchapter applies to only monies from abatement accounts funds”). ↑
See, e.g., . October 11, 2022. Accessed August 28, 2024 (“Pursuant to … the … Distributor Settlement Agreement, the identified Non-Participating Subdivisions are ineligible to receive their allocated shares for the current Payment Year. The Directing Administrator has added the amounts allocated to these ineligible Subdivisions to the Abatement Accounts Fund”)... ↑
See (“[A]pproved purposes can be found at Exhibit E to the [Settlement Agreements], which is attached to this memo”) and I.SS (“Exhibit E provides a non-exhaustive list of expenditures that qualify as being paid for Opioid Remediation. Qualifying expenditures may include reasonable related administrative expenses”). ↑
(“15% to state subdivisions to be used to abate the opioid crisis”), (“[A] subdivision will use any monies received for Opioid Remediation Uses … listed in Exhibit E”), and (“[A]pproved purposes can be found at Exhibit E”). See also I.SS (“Exhibit E provides a non-exhaustive list of expenditures that qualify as being paid for Opioid Remediation.”). ↑
(“15% to state subdivisions to be used to abate the opioid crisis”) and (“[A] subdivision will use any monies received for Opioid Remediation Uses … listed in Exhibit E”). See also 18 V.S.A. Sec. 4771 (“While an opioid litigation settlement may designate a portion of the monies for local or State use, this subchapter applies to only monies from abatement accounts funds”). ↑