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Read. Follow. Verify.Vermont requires hospital boards to include public representatives and report executive pay changes
Last action · January 6, 2026: Read 1st time & referred to Committee on Health and WelfareSponsor: Virginia Lyons
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What This Bill Would Do
This bill requires every hospital board of directors in Vermont to include at least two Governor-appointed public representatives and mandates that hospitals submit executive compensation data and benchmarks to the before approving pay changes.
Hospital boards must add public members to their governance and compensation committees, and executive pay packages must undergo state-level review using specific peer data and benchmarks.
- The Green Mountain Care Board is Vermont's health care regulatory agency responsible for overseeing hospital budgets, health insurance rates, and overall system expenditures. context
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Vermont hospitals
Hospitals must appoint public members to their boards and compensation committees and file executive compensation details with the state before making pay changes.
hospital executives
Executive compensation packages and benchmarks must be reviewed by a board compensation committee containing public members and reported to the Green Mountain Care Board.
Green Mountain Care Board
The board receives executive pay filings, has authority to require modifications to peer comparison groups, and may retain advisors at hospital expense.
Key Facts
- Two voting members of a hospital's board of directors, or at least one-sixth of the board, must be public representatives appointed by the Governor.
- The initial term for one public representative is two years, and the other is three years, with subsequent terms lasting three years.
- Hospital boards must create a compensation committee that includes at least two public representatives to review and recommend executive compensation packages.
- Beginning July 1, 2026, hospitals must file sworn statements regarding executive compensation benchmarks, surveys, and bonus criteria with the Green Mountain Care Board prior to approving pay changes.
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- The Green Mountain Care Board may require hospitals to modify peer comparison groups if they are not sufficiently similar in size, patient volume, payer mix, or operations.
- The Green Mountain Care Board may retain consultants at the hospital's expense to evaluate submitted compensation materials.
- Hospitals may designate provided compensation materials as proprietary or confidential under the Public Records Act.
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Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
1 action- Jan 6, 2026SenateIntroducedRead 1st time & referred to Committee on Health and Welfare
Version history
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