republic-os/legislation/us/states/vt/2025-2026/s-27.md

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Bill	An act relating to medical debt relief and excluding medical debt from credit reports	An act relating to medical debt relief and excluding medical debt from credit reports	us/states/vt	Vermont General Assembly	2025-2026	S 27	Vermont S 27 (2025-2026)	bill		enacted	Virginia Lyons	9	58	0	2025-01-29	2025-05-16	openstates	ocd-bill/a0ecb2cb-d653-4a57-a68a-99a8cfbcb979	http://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/loadBillDetailedStatus/2026/251	590812027edf9cfb853937e048db6a1f9cf192e60f227fdabcb4b5139e347926	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-vt

Vermont S 27 (2025-2026) — An act relating to medical debt relief and excluding medical debt from credit reports

Version chain

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

1. As Introduced (filed) — source
2. Act Summary (committee substitute) — source
3. As Enacted (committee substitute) — source
4. As Passed By the Senate (Official) (committee substitute) — source
5. As Passed By the Senate (Unofficial) (committee substitute) — source
6. As Passed by Both House and Senate (Official) (committee substitute) — source
7. As Passed by Both House and Senate (Unofficial) (committee substitute) — source
8. House Proposal of Amendment (Official) (committee substitute) — source
9. House Proposal of Amendment (Unofficial) (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Virginia Lyons — primary (person)
• Alison Clarkson — cosponsor (person)
• Ann Cummings — cosponsor (person)
• Anne Watson — cosponsor (person)
• Brian Collamore — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph Major — cosponsor (person)
• Kesha Ram Hinsdale — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Hart — cosponsor (person)
• Martine Gulick — cosponsor (person)
• Nader Hashim — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Brennan — cosponsor (person)
• Philip Baruth — cosponsor (person)
• Rebecca White — cosponsor (person)
• Richard Westman — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Norris — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Plunkett — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Hardy — cosponsor (person)
• Scott Beck — cosponsor (person)
• Seth Bongartz — cosponsor (person)
• Tanya Vyhovsky — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas Chittenden — cosponsor (person)
• Wendy Harrison — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-29 Read 1st time & referred to Committee on Judiciary introduction
• 2025-01-31 Committee on Judiciary relieved; bill committed to Committee on Health and Welfare on motion of Senator Hashim
• 2025-03-11 Entered on Notice Calendar
• 2025-03-11 Second Reading reading-2
• 2025-03-11 Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare committee-passage
• 2025-03-11 Referred to Committee on Appropriations per Senate Rule 31
• 2025-03-18 Entered on Notice Calendar
• 2025-03-18 Second Reading reading-2
• 2025-03-18 Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare committee-passage
• 2025-03-18 Favorable report by Committee on Appropriations committee-passage
• 2025-03-19 New Business/Second Reading reading-2
• 2025-03-19 Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare committee-passage
• 2025-03-19 Favorable report by Committee on Appropriations committee-passage
• 2025-03-19 Read 2nd time, reported favorably with recommendation of amendment by Senator Cummings for Committee on Health and Welfare committee-passage-favorable, reading-2
• 2025-03-19 Reported favorably by Senator Lyons for Committee on Appropriations committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-19 Recommendation of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare agreed to
• 2025-03-19 3rd reading ordered
• 2025-03-20 New Business/Third Reading reading-3
• 2025-03-20 Read 3rd time & passed reading-3
• 2025-03-25 Read first time and referred to the Committee on Health Care introduction
• 2025-04-04 Notice Calendar: Favorable with Amendment
• 2025-04-04 Referred to Committee on Appropriations per Rule 35(a)
• 2025-04-11 Notice Calendar: Favorable with Amendment
• 2025-04-15 Action Calendar: Favorable with Amendment
• 2025-04-15 Referred to Committee on Ways and Means per Rule 35(a)
• 2025-04-17 Notice Calendar: Favorable with Amendment
• 2025-04-18 Action Calendar: Favorable with Amendment
• 2025-04-18 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-04-18 Rep. Page of Newport City reported for the Committee on Health Care
• 2025-04-18 Rep. Nigro of Bennington recommended for the Committee on Appropriations
• 2025-04-18 Rep. Feltus of Lyndon recommended for the Committee on Ways and Means
• 2025-04-18 Rep. Black of Essex, Berbeco of Winooski, Cina of Burlington, Cordes of Bristol, Critchlow of Colchester, Demar of Enosburgh, Goldman of Rockingham, Houghton of Essex Junction, McFaun of Barre Town, Page of Newport City, and Powers of Waterford moved to amend the report of the Committee on Health Care, which was agreed to
• 2025-04-18 Rep. Donahue of Northfield and Black of Essex moved to amend the report of the Committee on Health Care, as amended, which was agreed to
• 2025-04-18 Report of Committee on Health Care, as amended, agreed to
• 2025-04-18 Third Reading ordered reading-3
• 2025-04-22 Action Calendar: Third Reading reading-3
• 2025-04-22 Read third time and passed in concurrence with proposal of amendment amendment-introduction, reading-3
• 2025-04-23 House message: House passed bill in concurrence with proposal(s) of amendment
• 2025-04-24 Entered on Notice Calendar
• 2025-04-24 House proposal of amendment amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-25 New Business/House Proposal of Amendment amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-25 House proposal of amendment; text amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-25 Consideration postponed without objection
• 2025-04-29 Unfinished Business/House Proposal of Amendment amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-29 Proposal of amendment to be offered by Senator(s) Lyons and Perchlik amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-29 Pending question: Shall the Senate concur in the House proposal of amendment?? amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-29 Consideration resumed
• 2025-04-29 House proposal of amendment; text amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-29 House proposal of amendment concurred in with further proposal of amendment as moved by Senator(s) Lyons and Perchlik amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-30 Senate Message: House proposal of amendment concurred in with further proposal of amendment thereto amendment-introduction
• 2025-05-01 Notice Calendar: Senate Proposal of Amendment to House Proposal of Amendment amendment-introduction
• 2025-05-02 Action Calendar: Senate Proposal of Amendment to House Proposal of Amendment amendment-introduction
• 2025-05-02 Senate proposal of amendment to House proposal of amendment concurred in amendment-introduction
• 2025-05-06 House message: House concurred in Senate proposal of amendment to House proposal of amendment amendment-introduction
• 2025-05-06 As passed by Senate and House passage
• 2025-05-09 Delivered to Governor on May 9, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-05-16 Signed by Governor on May 15, 2025 executive-signature
• 2025-05-16 Senate Message: Signed by Governor May 15, 2025 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a0ecb2cb-d653-4a57-a68a-99a8cfbcb979. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Vermont legislature records).