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type: "Bill"
title: "An act relating to unmerging the individual and small group health insurance markets"
description: "An act relating to unmerging the individual and small group health insurance markets"
jurisdiction: "us/states/vt"
legislature: "Vermont General Assembly"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "H 35"
citation: "Vermont H 35 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lori Houghton"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-15"
last_action: "2025-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2df3e3eb-d51d-46f0-9e87-3bd8da705788"
source_url: "http://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/loadBillDetailedStatus/2026/382"
source_hash: "dd322d3931059d7ffabd1e83ac039952866c62bf1d5ffe9775b3db69ae765d25"
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 35 (2025-2026) — An act relating to unmerging the individual and small group health insurance markets
## 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/2026/Docs/BILLS/H-0035/H-0035%20As%20Introduced.pdf)
2. **Act Summary** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Docs/ACTS/ACT002/ACT002%20Act%20Summary.pdf)
3. **As Enacted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Docs/ACTS/ACT002/ACT002%20As%20Enacted.pdf)
4. **As Passed By the House (Official)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Docs/BILLS/H-0035/H-0035%20As%20passed%20by%20the%20House%20Official.pdf)
5. **As Passed By the House (Unofficial)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Docs/BILLS/H-0035/H-0035%20As%20Passed%20by%20the%20House%20Unofficial.pdf)
6. **As Passed by Both House and Senate (Official)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Docs/BILLS/H-0035/H-0035%20As%20Passed%20by%20Both%20House%20and%20Senate%20Official.pdf)
7. **As Passed by Both House and Senate (Unofficial)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Docs/BILLS/H-0035/H-0035%20As%20Passed%20by%20Both%20House%20and%20Senate%20Unofficial.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Lori Houghton — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-15** Read first time and referred to the Committee on Health Care `introduction`
- **2025-01-28** On Notice Calendar
- **2025-01-29** Action Calendar: Favorable
- **2025-01-29** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-01-29** Rep. Demar of Enosburgh reported for the Committee on Health Care
- **2025-01-29** Third Reading ordered `reading-3`
- **2025-01-30** Action Calendar: Third Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-01-30** Read third time and passed `reading-3`
- **2025-02-04** Read 1st time & referred to Committee on Finance `introduction`
- **2025-02-07** Entered on Notice Calendar
- **2025-02-07** Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-07** Favorable report by Committee on Finance `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-11** New Business/Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-11** Favorable report by Committee on Finance `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-11** Reported favorably by Senator Cummings for Committee on Finance, read 2nd time and 3rd reading ordered `committee-passage-favorable, reading-2`
- **2025-02-12** New Business/Third Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-12** Read 3rd time & passed in concurrence `reading-3`
- **2025-02-14** Senate Message: Passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-02-14** Delivered to the Governor on February 14, 2025 `passage`
- **2025-02-20** Signed by Governor on 2/19/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-02-21** House message: Governor approved bill on February 19, 2025
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2df3e3eb-d51d-46f0-9e87-3bd8da705788`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Vermont legislature records).