---
type: "Bill"
title: "An act relating to increasing hospital price transparency, hospital sustainability planning, provider sustainability and reimbursements, and regulators' access to information"
description: "An act relating to increasing hospital price transparency, hospital sustainability planning, provider sustainability and reimbursements, and regulators' access to information"
jurisdiction: "us/states/vt"
legislature: "Vermont General Assembly"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "H 795"
citation: "Vermont H 795 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lucy Rogers"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 27
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-01-21"
last_action: "2020-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/020abb20-e3c9-45c5-b475-a9181c5a7478"
source_url: "http://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/loadBillDetailedStatus/2020/2204"
source_hash: "289cf8238f2aecdd6b04b82091d28637597abc3280580ee6b23e8bb4889152a6"
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 795 (2019-2020) — An act relating to increasing hospital price transparency, hospital sustainability planning, provider sustainability and reimbursements, and regulators' access to information

## 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-0795/H-0795%20As%20Introduced.pdf)
2. **Act Summary** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2020/Docs/ACTS/ACT159/ACT159%20Act%20Summary.pdf)
3. **As Enacted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2020/Docs/ACTS/ACT159/ACT159%20As%20Enacted.pdf)
4. **Official** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2020/Docs/BILLS/H-0795/H-0795%20As%20passed%20by%20the%20House%20Official.pdf)
5. **Unofficial** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2020/Docs/BILLS/H-0795/H-0795%20As%20Passed%20by%20the%20House%20Unofficial.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Lucy Rogers — primary (person)
- Anne Donahue — cosponsor (person)
- Annmarie Christensen — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Less… — cosponsor (person)
- Lori Houghton — cosponsor (person)
- Mari Cordes — cosponsor (person)
- Woodman Page — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-21** Read First Time and Referred to the Committee on Health Care
- **2020-03-12** Read Second Time
- **2020-03-12** Rep. Rogers of Waterville reported for the committee on Health Care
- **2020-03-12** Report of Committee on Health Care agreed to.
- **2020-03-12** Third Reading Ordered
- **2020-03-13** Read Third time and Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-13** Rules suspended and bill messaged forthwith to the Senate as moved by Rep. McCoy of Poultney
- **2020-03-24** Read 1st time & referred to Committee on Government Operations `introduction`
- **2020-05-12** Committee on Government Operations relieved; bill committed to Committee on Health and Welfare on motion of Senator White
- **2020-09-15** Entered on Notice Calendar
- **2020-09-15** Favorable report with proposal of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare
- **2020-09-16** New Business/Second Reading
- **2020-09-16** Favorable report with proposal of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare
- **2020-09-16** Read 2nd time, reported favorably with proposal of amendment by Senator Lyons for Committee on Health and Welfare
- **2020-09-16** Proposal of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare agreed to
- **2020-09-16** 3rd reading ordered
- **2020-09-17** New Business/Third Reading
- **2020-09-17** Senate Message, passed in Concurrence with proposal of amendment
- **2020-09-17** Pending third reading, Senator(s) Lyons, Ingram, McCormack, and Westman motion to amend proposal of amendment; text
- **2020-09-17** Proposal of amendment agreed to
- **2020-09-17** Read 3rd time & passed in concurrence with proposal of amendment `passage`
- **2020-09-17** Rules suspended & messaged to House forthwith, on motion of Senator Ashe
- **2020-09-22** Senate Proposal of Amendment concurred in `passage`
- **2020-09-24** House message: House concurred in Senate proposal of amendment
- **2020-09-25** Delivered to the Governor on September 30, 2020 `passage`
- **2020-09-25** Signed by Governor on October 5, 2020 `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-25** House message: Governor approved bill on October 5, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/020abb20-e3c9-45c5-b475-a9181c5a7478`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Vermont legislature records).