Vermont 2021-2022 Regular Session Status: Enacted

S 285 — An act relating to health care reform initiatives, data collection, and access to home- and community-based services

Last action — Senate Message, signed by Governor June 1, 2022

Track this bill free

No card. One bill, free forever — alerts when it moves.

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed House
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 28, 2022. Enacted.

Prognosis

Advancing 54% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

How often bills like it became law.

  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Mixed recorded votes

    2 passed, 1 failed in recorded votes so far.

Prognosis reads this bill's own signals — stage, sponsorship breadth, committee status, recorded votes and cross-state momentum. Odds come from a model trained on which bills have become law.

Bill Text

We don't have the full text on file for this bill yet.

Read S 285 on the official Vermont source →

Action History

  1. Senate Message, signed by Governor June 1, 2022

  2. Signed by Governor on June 1, 2022

  3. Delivered to Governor on May 26, 2022

  4. As passed by Senate and House

  5. House message: House concurred in Senate proposal of amendment to House proposal of amendment

  6. Senate proposal of amendment to the House proposal of amendment concurred in

  7. Action Calendar: Senate proposal of amendment

  8. Notice Calendar: Senate proposal of amendment

  9. Senate Message, House proposal of amendment concurred in with further amendment thereto

  10. Rules suspended & messaged to House forthwith, on motion of Senator Mazza

  11. Proposal of amendment agreed to

  12. Proposal of amendment by Senator(s) Lyons, Cummings, Hardy, Hooker, and Terenzini; text

  13. House proposal of amendment; text

  14. Proposal of amendment to be offered by Senator(s) Lyons, Cummings, Hardy, Hooker, and Terenzini

  15. Unfinished Business/House Proposal of Amendment

  16. New Business/House Proposal of Amendment

  17. House Proposal of Amendment

  18. Entered on Notice Calendar

  19. House message: House passed bill in concurrence with proposal(s) of amendment

  20. Rules suspended and bill messaged forthwith to the Senate as moved by Rep. McCoy of Poultney

  21. Read Third time and passed in concurrence with proposal of amendment

  22. Action Calendar: Third reading

  23. Action Calendar: Third reading

  24. Third Reading ordered

  25. Report of Committee on Health Care as amended agreed to

  26. Report of the Committee on Health Care amended as recommended by the Committee on Appropriations

  27. Rep. Yacovone of Morristown recommended for the Committee on Appropriations

  28. Rep. Houghton of Essex reported for the Committee on Health Care

  29. Read Second time

  30. Action Calendar: Favorable with amendment

  31. Rep. Houghton of Essex moved to postpone action until April 29, 2022 which was agreed to

  32. Action Calendar: Favorable with amendment

  33. Notice Calendar: Favorable with amendment

  34. Referred to Committee on Appropriations per Rule 35(a)

  35. Read First Time and referred to the Committee on Health Care

  36. Read 3rd time & passed

  37. New Business/Third Reading

  38. Recommendation of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare, as amended, agreed to

  39. Recommendation of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare amended as recommended by Committee on Appropriations

  40. 3rd reading ordered on roll call, requested by Senator Lyons, Passed -- Needed 15 of 29 to Pass -- Yeas = 27, Nays = 2

  41. Reported favorably by Senator Kitchel for Committee on Appropriations with recommendation of amendment

  42. Reported favorably by Senator Lyons for Committee on Health and Welfare with recommendation of amendment

  43. Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Appropriations

  44. Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare

  45. Unfinished Business/Second Reading

  46. Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Appropriations

  47. Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare

  48. Unfinished Business/Second Reading

  49. Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Appropriations

  50. Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare

  51. Unfinished Business/Second Reading

  52. Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Appropriations

  53. Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare

  54. New Business/Second Reading

  55. Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Appropriations

  56. Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare

  57. Entered on Notice Calendar

  58. Referred to Committee on Appropriations per Senate Rule 31

  59. Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare

  60. Entered on Notice Calendar

  61. Committed to Committee on Health and Welfare on motion of Senator Lyons

  62. Rules suspended & taken up for immediate consideration, on motion of Senator Lyons

  63. Committee bill read first time & placed on Notice Calendar per Senate Rule 48

Sponsors

  • Senate Committee on Health and Welfare · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

Export CSV (upgrade) →

1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 189 not signed on · 18 voted No

Sponsors (1)

  • Senate Committee on Health and Welfare

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (189)

189 members have not signed on to this bill.

Show all 189 →

"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

Whip count is in markup. Polling the chamber and every recorded vote this session. Only the first open is slow. It’s instant for you after this. Calling the roll · Tallying · Engrossing

Votes

Senator Brock motion to amend recommendation of amendment disagreed to on roll call Failed -- Needed 15 of 29 to Pass -- Yeas = 11, Nays = 18

Failed 11 Yea · 18 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Republican 7000
Democrat 3400
Unaffiliated 11001
Democrat/Progressive 0300
Progressive/Democrat 0100
Total 111801
% of votes cast 37%60%0%3%
How each member voted (30)
Member Party Vote
Starr — Yea
Bray — Nay
Campion — Nay
Harrison — Nay
Kitchel — Nay
MacDonald — Nay
McCormack — Nay
Sears — Nay
White — Nay
Wrenner — Nay
Mazza — Not Voting
Ram Hinsdale — Nay
Alison Clarkson Democrat Nay
Ann E Cummings Democrat Yea
Martine Larocque L Gulick Democrat Nay
Nader A Hashim Democrat Nay
Ruth E Hardy Democrat Nay
Thomas I Chittenden Democrat Yea
Virginia "Ginny" V Lyons Democrat Yea
Andrew J Perchlik Democrat/Progressive Nay
Anne E Watson Democrat/Progressive Nay
Philip E Baruth Democrat/Progressive Nay
Tanya C Vyhovsky Progressive/Democrat Nay
Brian P Collamore Republican Yea
David H Weeks Republican Yea
Randy D Brock Republican Yea
Richard A Westman Republican Yea
Robert W Norris Republican Yea
Russ H Ingalls Republican Yea
Terry K Williams Republican Yea

Official roll call →

Recommendation of amendment by Committee on Judiciary agreed to on roll call, requested by Senator Vyhovsky, Passed -- Needed 14 of 28 to Pass -- Yeas = 16, Nays = 12

Passed 16 Yea · 12 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democrat/Progressive 3000
Unaffiliated 7302
Democrat 5200
Progressive/Democrat 1000
Republican 0700
Total 161202
% of votes cast 53%40%0%7%
How each member voted (30)
Member Party Vote
Bray — Yea
Campion — Yea
Harrison — Yea
Kitchel — Yea
MacDonald — Yea
White — Yea
McCormack — Nay
Sears — Nay
Starr — Nay
Mazza — Not Voting
Wrenner — Not Voting
Ram Hinsdale — Yea
Alison Clarkson Democrat Yea
Ann E Cummings Democrat Nay
Martine Larocque L Gulick Democrat Yea
Nader A Hashim Democrat Yea
Ruth E Hardy Democrat Yea
Thomas I Chittenden Democrat Nay
Virginia "Ginny" V Lyons Democrat Yea
Andrew J Perchlik Democrat/Progressive Yea
Anne E Watson Democrat/Progressive Yea
Philip E Baruth Democrat/Progressive Yea
Tanya C Vyhovsky Progressive/Democrat Yea
Brian P Collamore Republican Nay
David H Weeks Republican Nay
Randy D Brock Republican Nay
Richard A Westman Republican Nay
Robert W Norris Republican Nay
Russ H Ingalls Republican Nay
Terry K Williams Republican Nay

Official roll call →

3rd reading ordered on roll call, requested by Senator Lyons, Passed -- Needed 15 of 29 to Pass -- Yeas = 27, Nays = 2

Passed 27 Yea · 2 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democrat/Progressive 2000
Unaffiliated 16201
Republican 4000
Democrat 5000
Total 27201
% of votes cast 90%7%0%3%
How each member voted (30)
Member Party Vote
Benning — Yea
Bray — Yea
Campion — Yea
Hooker — Yea
Kitchel — Yea
MacDonald — Yea
Mazza — Yea
McCormack — Yea
Nitka — Yea
Pearson — Yea
Sears — Yea
Sirotkin — Yea
Starr — Yea
Terenzini — Yea
White — Yea
Parent — Nay
Pollina — Nay
Balint — Not Voting
Ram Hinsdale — Yea
Alison Clarkson Democrat Yea
Ann E Cummings Democrat Yea
Ruth E Hardy Democrat Yea
Thomas I Chittenden Democrat Yea
Virginia "Ginny" V Lyons Democrat Yea
Andrew J Perchlik Democrat/Progressive Yea
Philip E Baruth Democrat/Progressive Yea
Brian P Collamore Republican Yea
Randy D Brock Republican Yea
Richard A Westman Republican Yea
Russ H Ingalls Republican Yea

Official roll call →

Subjects

healthcare health-insurance
Cross-referencing the record. Reading this bill against every other bill in the corpus by meaning, not keywords. Only the first open is slow. It’s instant for you after this. Matching · Ranking · Engrossing

Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors S 285?
S 285 is sponsored by Senate Committee on Health and Welfare.
What is the current status of S 285?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 28, 2022. Enacted.
Where can I track S 285?
Track S 285 free on One Click Politics — get push/email alerts when it moves.

Make your voice heard on S 285

Find the representatives who decide this bill and tell them where you stand — for yourself, or mobilize your whole list in one click with One Click Politics advocacy software.

Find my representatives → Run a campaign

Stay ahead of S 285

Last checked for changes 3 months ago · updated continuously

One Click Politics tracks every bill in Congress and all 50 states.

Track this bill →