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VermontH.802025-2026 SessionHouseWALLET

An act relating to the Office of the Health Care Advocate

Sponsored By: Rep. Mari Cordes

Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

New Health Care Advocate helps Vermonters

Beginning July 1, 2025, the law creates the Office of the Health Care Advocate, which AHS maintains by contract with a nonprofit. You can get free help to pick plans, fix denials, and file appeals. With your written consent, insurers and providers must share your records with the Office. State agencies must share information and include the Office in policy work when the law allows. Staff must avoid conflicts, and the Office sends a yearly report by January 15.

Advocate joins hospital and nursing home reviews

Beginning July 1, 2025, the Health Care Advocate can file to intervene in certificate-of-need reviews. For nursing homes, the Long-Term Care Ombudsman can also intervene. Once they file, they get needed records, can ask questions, send comments, and testify at hearings. They cannot further disclose confidential or proprietary information they receive in these reviews.

More transparency in insurance rate reviews

Beginning July 1, 2025, the Green Mountain Care Board must post insurer rate filings and solvency and actuary analyses within 60 days. The Health Care Advocate has 30 days to send questions and written comments on a rate request. The Board must post those comments and consider them. After redacting confidential parts, the Board must post all questions and answers and the materials in the rate review record.

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Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Rep. Mari Cordes

    Affiliation unavailable

Cosponsors

  • Allen "Penny" R Demar

    Republican • House

  • Alyssa Black

    Democratic • House

  • Brian J Cina

    Democrat/Progressive • House

  • Daisy Berbeco

    Democratic • House

  • Rep. Francis McFaun

    Affiliation unavailable

  • Leslie Goldman

    Democratic • House

  • Wendy A Critchlow

    Democratic • House

  • Woodman H Page

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

Actions Timeline

  1. House message: Governor approved bill on April 23, 2025

    4/24/2025Senate

  2. Signed by Governor on April 23, 2025

    4/23/2025House

  3. Delivered to the Governor on April 17, 2025

    4/17/2025House

  4. House message: House concurred in Senate proposal of amendment

    4/16/2025Senate

  5. Senate proposal of amendment concurred in

    4/15/2025House

  6. Action Calendar: Senate Proposal of Amendment

    4/15/2025House

  7. Notice Calendar: Senate Proposal of Amendment

    4/11/2025House

  8. Senate Message: Passed in concurrence with proposal of amendment

    4/10/2025House

  9. Read 3rd time & passed in concurrence with proposal of amendment

    4/9/2025Senate

  10. New Business/Third Reading

    4/9/2025Senate

  11. 3rd reading ordered

    4/8/2025Senate

  12. Proposal of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare agreed to

    4/8/2025Senate

  13. Read 2nd time, reported favorably with proposal of amendment by Senator Gulick for Committee on Health and Welfare

    4/8/2025Senate

  14. Favorable report with proposal of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare

    4/8/2025Senate

  15. New Business/Second Reading

    4/8/2025Senate

  16. Favorable report with proposal of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare

    4/4/2025Senate

  17. Second Reading

    4/4/2025Senate

  18. Entered on Notice Calendar

    4/4/2025Senate

  19. Read 1st time & referred to Committee on Health and Welfare

    3/25/2025Senate

  20. Read third time and passed

    3/20/2025House

  21. Action Calendar: Third Reading

    3/20/2025House

  22. Third Reading ordered

    3/19/2025House

  23. Report of Committee on Health Care, as amended, agreed to

    3/19/2025House

  24. 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

    3/19/2025House

  25. Rep. Critchlow of Colchester reported for the Committee on Health Care

    3/19/2025House

Bill Text

  • As Enacted (ACT 6)

    4/30/2025

    PDF

  • As Passed by Both Chambers

    4/16/2025

    PDF

  • As Passed by Both Chambers (Unofficial)

    4/16/2025

    PDF

  • Senate Proposal of Amendment

    4/15/2025

    PDF

  • Senate Proposal of Amendment (Unofficial)

    4/15/2025

    PDF

  • As Passed by the House

    3/26/2025

    PDF

  • As Passed by the House (Unofficial)

    3/26/2025

    PDF

  • As Introduced

    1/24/2025

    PDF

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