---
type: "Bill"
title: "An act relating to allowing silver-level nonqualified health benefit plans to be offered outside the Vermont Health Benefit Exchange"
description: "An act relating to allowing silver-level nonqualified health benefit plans to be offered outside the Vermont Health Benefit Exchange"
jurisdiction: "us/states/vt"
legislature: "Vermont General Assembly"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "S. 19"
citation: "Vermont S. 19 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Claire Ayer", "Kevin Mullin", "Michael Sirotkin"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-01-12"
last_action: "2018-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f24ef001-0b7c-4b22-b458-ad6c511087aa"
source_url: "http://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/loadBillDetailedStatus/2018/236"
source_hash: "68bd601792f6abd8b84153966905e08ed9610e375dd20ae3b61e283768b5ee13"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-vt"]
---

# Vermont S. 19 (2017-2018) — An act relating to allowing silver-level nonqualified health benefit plans to be offered outside the Vermont Health Benefit Exchange

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **As Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/assets/Documents/2018/Docs/BILLS/S-0019/S-0019%20As%20Introduced.pdf)
2. **Act Summary** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/assets/Documents/2018/Docs/ACTS/ACT088/ACT088%20Act%20Summary.pdf)
3. **As Enacted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/assets/Documents/2018/Docs/ACTS/ACT088/ACT088%20As%20Enacted.pdf)
4. **Official** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/assets/Documents/2018/Docs/BILLS/S-0019/S-0019%20As%20passed%20by%20the%20Senate%20Official.pdf)
5. **Unofficial** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/assets/Documents/2018/Docs/BILLS/S-0019/S-0019%20As%20Passed%20by%20the%20Senate%20Unofficial.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Claire Ayer — primary (person)
- Kevin Mullin — primary (person)
- Michael Sirotkin — primary (person)
- Jeanette White — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-12** Read 1st time & referred to Committee on Health and Welfare `introduction`
- **2017-02-14** Committee on Health and Welfare relieved; bill committed to Committee on Finance on motion of Senator Ayer
- **2018-01-10** Committee on Finance relieved; bill committed to Committee on Health and Welfare on motion of Senator Cummings
- **2018-01-12** Rules suspended & bill committed to Committee on Finance with the report of Committee on Health and Welfare intact, on motion of Senator Ingram
- **2018-01-17** Entered on Notice Calendar
- **2018-01-17** Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee onHealth and Welfare
- **2018-01-17** Favorable report by Committee on Finance
- **2018-01-18** New Business/Second Reading
- **2018-01-18** Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare
- **2018-01-18** Favorable report by Committee on Finance
- **2018-01-18** Reported favorably by Senator Cummings for Committee on Health and Welfare with recommendation of amendment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-18** Reported favorably by Senator Cummings for Committee on Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-18** Recommendation of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare agreed to
- **2018-01-19** New Business/Third Reading
- **2018-01-18** 3rd reading ordered
- **2018-01-19** Read 3rd time & passed `passage`
- **2018-01-24** Read First Time and Referred to the Committee on Health Care
- **2018-01-30** Read Second Time
- **2018-01-30** Rep. Briglin of Thetford reported for the committee on Health Care
- **2018-01-30** Third Reading Ordered
- **2018-01-31** Read Third time
- **2018-01-31** Passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2018-02-01** House message House passed bill in concurrence
- **2018-02-01** As passed by Senate and House `passage`
- **2018-02-21** Signed by Governor on February 20, 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f24ef001-0b7c-4b22-b458-ad6c511087aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Vermont legislature records).