---
type: "Bill"
title: "An act relating to miscellaneous provisions affecting navigators, Medicaid records, and the Department of Vermont Health Access"
description: "An act relating to miscellaneous provisions affecting navigators, Medicaid records, and the Department of Vermont Health Access"
jurisdiction: "us/states/vt"
legislature: "Vermont General Assembly"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "H 204"
citation: "Vermont H 204 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lori Houghton"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-02-12"
last_action: "2019-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be109c16-e331-47c8-83b2-1383210336c1"
source_url: "http://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/loadBillDetailedStatus/2020/807"
source_hash: "6107b9fad7899c9ab4a8551f30d3d8defc9fc249120ac205d648157110a1f1be"
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 H 204 (2019-2020) — An act relating to miscellaneous provisions affecting navigators, Medicaid records, and the Department of Vermont Health Access

## 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/Documents/2020/Docs/BILLS/H-0204/H-0204%20As%20Introduced.pdf)
2. **Act Summary** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2020/Docs/ACTS/ACT015/ACT015%20Act%20Summary.pdf)
3. **As Enacted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2020/Docs/ACTS/ACT015/ACT015%20As%20Enacted.pdf)
4. **Official** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2020/Docs/BILLS/H-0204/H-0204%20As%20passed%20by%20the%20House%20Official.pdf)
5. **Unofficial** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2020/Docs/BILLS/H-0204/H-0204%20As%20Passed%20by%20the%20House%20Unofficial.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Lori Houghton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-12** Read First Time and Referred to the Committee on Health Care
- **2019-03-19** Read Second Time
- **2019-03-19** Rep. Houghton of Essex reported for the committee on Health Care
- **2019-03-19** Third Reading Ordered
- **2019-03-20** Read Third time and Passed `passage`
- **2019-03-22** Read 1st time & referred to Committee on Health and Welfare `introduction`
- **2019-04-12** Entered on Notice Calendar
- **2019-04-12** Favorable report by Committee on Health and Welfare
- **2019-04-16** New Business/Second Reading
- **2019-04-16** Favorable report by Committee on Health and Welfare
- **2019-04-16** Reported favorably by Senator Cummings for Committee on Health and Welfare, read 2nd time and 3rd reading ordered `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-17** New Business/Third Reading
- **2019-04-17** Read 3rd time & passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2019-04-18** Senate Message, Passed in Concurrence `passage`
- **2019-05-08** House message: Governor approved bill on May 6, 2019
- **2019-04-30** Delivered to the Governor on April 30, 2019 `passage`
- **2019-05-07** Signed by Governor on May 6, 2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/be109c16-e331-47c8-83b2-1383210336c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Vermont legislature records).