---
type: "Bill"
title: "An act relating to informed health care financial decision making and the consent policy for the Vermont Health Information Exchange"
description: "An act relating to informed health care financial decision making and the consent policy for the Vermont Health Information Exchange"
jurisdiction: "us/states/vt"
legislature: "Vermont General Assembly"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "S 31"
citation: "Vermont S 31 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher Pearson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 43
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-18"
last_action: "2019-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/597dce5f-8fee-491d-9f9d-6b1e904c87b9"
source_url: "http://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/loadBillDetailedStatus/2020/384"
source_hash: "27bd8ebbd9e4ad23241fcedf7327b38489756e549b1f359cbc6c512d46af324e"
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 31 (2019-2020) — An act relating to informed health care financial decision making and the consent policy for the Vermont Health Information 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/Documents/2020/Docs/BILLS/S-0031/S-0031%20As%20Introduced.pdf)
2. **Act Summary** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2020/Docs/ACTS/ACT053/ACT053%20Act%20Summary.pdf)
3. **As Enacted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2020/Docs/ACTS/ACT053/ACT053%20As%20Enacted.pdf)
4. **Official** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2020/Docs/BILLS/S-0031/S-0031%20As%20passed%20by%20the%20Senate%20Official.pdf)
5. **Unofficial** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2020/Docs/BILLS/S-0031/S-0031%20As%20Passed%20by%20the%20Senate%20Unofficial.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Christopher Pearson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-18** Read 1st time & referred to Committee on Health and Welfare `introduction`
- **2019-03-19** Entered on Notice Calendar
- **2019-03-19** Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare
- **2019-03-20** New Business/Second Reading
- **2019-03-20** Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare
- **2019-03-20** Read second time, reported favorably with recommendation of amendment by Senator Cummings for Committee on Health and Welfare
- **2019-03-20** Recommendation of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare agreed to
- **2019-03-20** 3rd reading ordered
- **2019-03-21** New Business/Third Reading
- **2019-03-21** Pending third reading, motion to amend to be offered by Senator(s) Benning
- **2019-03-21** Pending third reading, motion to amend bill offered by Senator(s) Benning
- **2019-03-21** Motion agreed to
- **2019-03-21** Read 3rd time & passed `passage`
- **2019-03-26** Read First Time and Referred to the Committee on Health Care
- **2019-05-07** Read Second Time
- **2019-05-07** Rep. Smith of Derby reported for the committee on Health Care
- **2019-05-07** Report of Committee on Health Care agreed to.
- **2019-05-07** Third Reading Ordered
- **2019-05-08** Read Third time and Passed in Concurrence with Proposal of Amendment `passage`
- **2019-05-10** House message House passed bill in concurrence with proposal(s) of amendment
- **2019-05-13** Entered on Notice Calendar
- **2019-05-13** House Proposal of Amendment
- **2019-05-14** New Business/House Proposal of Amendment
- **2019-05-14** Proposal of amendment to be offered by Senator(s) Lyons
- **2019-05-14** House proposal of amendment; text
- **2019-05-14** Proposal of amendment by Senator(s) Lyons; text
- **2019-05-14** House proposal of amendment concurred in with proposal of amendment, on motion of Senator Lyons
- **2019-05-14** Rules suspended & messaged to House forthwith, on motion of Senator Mazza
- **2019-05-14** Senate message, House proposal of amendment concurred in with further amendment thereto
- **2019-05-16** Senate Proposal of Amendment concurred in with further amendment thereto, as offered by Rep. Jickling of Randolph
- **2019-05-16** Rules suspended and bill messaged forthwith to the Senate as moved by Rep. McCoy of Poultney
- **2019-05-16** House message House concurred in Senate proposal of amendment to House proposal of amendment, with further proposal of amendment
- **2019-05-17** House Proposal of Amendment
- **2019-05-20** New Business/House Proposal of Amendment
- **2019-05-21** Unfinished Business/House Proposal of Amendment
- **2019-05-21** House proposal of amendment; text
- **2019-05-21** House proposal of amendment concurred in
- **2019-05-21** As passed by Senate and House `passage`
- **2019-05-21** Rules suspended & messaged to House forthwith, on motion of Senator Ashe
- **2019-05-21** Senate Message, House proposal of amendment concurred in `passage`
- **2019-05-29** Delivered to Governor on June 5, 2019
- **2019-05-29** Signed by Governor on June 10, 2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-29** Senate Message, Signed by Governor June 10, 2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/597dce5f-8fee-491d-9f9d-6b1e904c87b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Vermont legislature records).