VA Code | §38-2 | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | SB921 | Health insurance reform. Revises Virginia's laws pertaining to the regulation of health insurance and related products in order to be consistent with relevant requirements of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) that become ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Communicated to Governor |
| VA | HB1900 | Health insurance reform. Revises Virginia's laws pertaining to the regulation of health insurance and related products in order to be consistent with relevant requirements of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) that become ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0751) |
| VA | SB1261 | Health benefit exchange; regulation of navigators. Prohibits an individual or entity selected to serve as a navigator in a health benefit exchange from engaging in any activity that would require an insurance agent license under Title 38.2, offering... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0791) |
| VA | HB2138 | Health Insurance Reform Commission created. Establishes the Health Insurance Reform Commission as a legislative commission. The duties of the Commission include monitoring the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; determi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709) |
| VA | SB922 | Health insurance; plan management and rate review. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to perform plan management functions for participation in the federal health benefit exchange established by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0679) |
| VA | HB1769 | Health insurance; plan management and rate review. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to perform plan management functions for participation in the federal health benefit exchange established by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0670) |
| VA | SB881 | Volunteer fire departments; billing by localities. Allows localities to directly bill homeowners on behalf of local volunteer fire departments under certain circumstances. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0616) |
| VA | SB1243 | Coverage for newborns; health maintenance organizations. Requires health care plans provided by a health maintenance organization to provide coverage for newborn children. The same requirement currently exists for health insurance policies and subsc... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0653) |
| VA | HB2246 | Health benefit exchange; regulation of navigators. Prohibits an individual or entity selected to serve as a navigator in a health benefit exchange from engaging in any activity that would require an insurance agent license under Title 38.2, offering ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0595) |
| VA | HB2023 | Travel insurance. Provides authorization for a business entity that is licensed as a travel agent, or acting under direction of a licensed travel agent, to offer travel insurance under a limited lines travel insurance agent license, upon complying wi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0497) |
| VA | SB1059 | Dental and optometric services plans. Provides that two existing provisions, relating to the payment of interest on accident and sickness claim proceeds and to the use of explanation of benefits forms, that apply to insurance companies will also appl... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0473) |
| VA | HB2301 | Volunteer fire departments; billing by localities. Allows localities to directly bill homeowners on behalf of local volunteer fire departments under certain circumstances. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0356) |
| VA | HB1607 | Property and casualty insurance policies; electronic notices. Removes provisions that prevent property and casualty insurers from delivering electronically notices of cancellation of certain policies of property or casualty insurance. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0257) |
| VA | SB780 | Individual accident and sickness insurance; open enrollment program. Repeals the requirement that a health insurer that is, or is successor to, a health services plan provide an open enrollment program for individual accident and sickness contracts. ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0136) |
| VA | SB950 | Practice of medicine and other healing arts. Updates terminology in sections governing licensure of practitioners of the healing arts, provides for use of electronic communication, expands the list of acceptable accrediting organizations for educati... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0144) |
| VA | SB984 | Notification of settlement payment. Requires an insurer that has made a payment of at least $5,000 in a single check to an attorney or other representative of a claimant or judgment creditor, in settlement or satisfaction by an insured or a third par... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0146) |
| VA | HB1838 | Insurance agents; effect of loss of license. Prohibits an individual whose license has been revoked by the State Corporation Commission, or voluntarily surrendered in lieu of a hearing before the Commission, from directly or indirectly owning and ope... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0212) |
| VA | HB1784 | Individual accident and sickness insurance; open enrollment program. Repeals the requirement that a health insurer that is, or is successor to, a health services plan provide an open enrollment program for individual accident and sickness contracts.... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0210) |
| VA | HB1731 | Self storage unit insurance. Establishes a procedure for lessors of self storage units to sell insurance that provides coverage against loss of or damage to items of personal property stored in a self storage unit in accordance with the terms of the ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0203) |
| VA | SB1216 | Technical corrections for administration of the insurance premiums license tax. Makes technical corrections to facilitate the transfer of the administration of the state insurance premiums license tax from the State Corporation Commission to the Depa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0163) |
| VA | SB777 | Insurance; notice of lapse in coverage. Restates a provision enacted in 1991 that was intended to provide that the requirement that insurers issuing certain life and accident and sickness insurance policies provide notice of lapse for failure to pay ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0093) |
| VA | HB1655 | Motor vehicle insurance; assignment of medical expense benefits. Establishes requirements for assigning motor vehicle insurance medical expense benefits to the assignor's health care provider. In order for an assignment to be valid, a copy of the exe... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0075) |
| VA | HB1396 | Portable electronics insurance. Eliminates a provision that caps, at $10 per customer, the incidental compensation that a vendor of portable electronics may provide to its employees or authorized representatives who sell portable electronics insuranc... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0009) |
| VA | HB1510 | Dental or optometric services plans. Requires any nonstock corporation that offers or administers a dental or optometric services plan without acting as an agent for participating dentists or optometrists to maintain a contingency reserve of at least... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0011) |
| VA | HB1527 | Fire insurance policy forms. Clarifies that excess fire insurance may be written on an endorsement as well as on a separate policy. The measure also deletes references to primary policies and deletes a requirement that insurers indicate in the headin... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0012) |
| VA | HB1528 | Insurance notices. Permits insurers to send termination notices on commercial liability policies to the first named insured listed in the policy's declarations page. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0013) |
| VA | HB2118 | Insurance policies; required notice. Clarifies that insurers are required to provide a notice that a policyholder may contact the Bureau of Insurance if he is unable to contact or obtain satisfaction from the insurer or agent. The measure corrects an... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0027) |
| VA | HB2155 | Technical corrections for administration of the insurance premiums license tax. Makes technical corrections to facilitate the transfer of the administration of the state insurance premiums license tax from the State Corporation Commission to the Depa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0029) |
| VA | SB945 | Health insurance; installment payments of cost-sharing obligations. Directs the Virginia Department of Health to convene a work group, which is to develop recommendations regarding issues relating to patient assistance programs for specialty drug nee... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-12 Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| VA | HB1572 | Workers' compensation insurance; experience modification factor. Prohibits the use of an accident in determining an insured employer's experience modification factor or level, for purposes of workers' compensation insurance, if the accident is the fa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2024 | Health insurance; diagnostic procedures resulting from preventive care or screening. Prohibits a health carrier from imposing cost-sharing requirements with respect to any diagnostic service, test, or related procedure that is administered or conduct... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2030 | Health insurance; installment payments of cost-sharing obligations. Requires health plans to allow certain covered persons to pay their cost-sharing obligations under their health benefit plan in 12 equal monthly installments. The option is to be pro... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | SB924 | Virginia Health Benefit Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange, which will be established and operated by a new division within the State Corporation Commission (SCC). The Exchange shall facilitate the purchase and sale of qualified h... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-04 Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (16-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1664 | State partnership health benefit exchange. Directs the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to contract with and enter into memoranda of understanding with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or any other state or federal agency as may be ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-31 Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| VA | HB1869 | Long-term care insurance; notice of lapse and reinstatement. Requires an insurer issuing a policy of long-term care insurance to give the policyholder or certificateholder, and a person designated by the policyholder or certificateholder to receive n... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-31 Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| VA | SB947 | Health insurance; modification of prescription drug coverage. Prohibits a health insurer, corporation providing accident and sickness subscription contracts, or health maintenance organization from making certain modifications in prescription drug co... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-28 Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| VA | SB1084 | State partnership health benefit exchange. Directs the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to contract with and enter into memoranda of understanding with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or any other state or federal agency as may be ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-28 Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| VA | HB1740 | Motor vehicle insurance; premiums based on credit information. Prohibits insurers from setting rates for motor vehicle insurance on the basis of a person's credit history or credit score. The measure will become effective January 1, 2014. [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-24 Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (4-Y 16-N) |
| VA | SB867 | Coverage for certain foods; phenylketonuria. Requires each (i) insurer issuing individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverage on an expense-incurred basis; (ii) corpora... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-21 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB866 | Health insurance; mandated coverage for enteral formulas necessitated by short bowel syndrome. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage, under a policy, contract, or plan that ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-21 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1057 | Insurers; Own Risk and Solvency Assessments. Requires insurance companies to maintain a risk management framework to assist with identifying, assessing, monitoring, managing, and reporting on material and relevant risks. As part of this requirement, ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-21 Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2195 | Insurance holding companies. Revises the requirements applicable to insurance holding companies to conform to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Insurance Holding Company System Regulatory Act and Insurance Holding Company System Mod... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-17 Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| VA | HB1486 | Insurance agent; continuing education materials. Requires instructors of an approved insurance agent continuing education course to mail to agents enrolled in the course a postcard that provides the agent with the option to either (i) download the ed... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-10 Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| VA | SB38 | Virginia Life, Accident, and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association; advertisements. Exempts displays of the logo of the Virginia Life, Accident, and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association on letterheads and signs, plaques, and posters within the o... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB496 | Virginia Health Benefit Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange, which will be established and operated by a new division within the State Corporation Commission. The Exchange shall facilitate the purchase and sale of qualified health... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB516 | Motor vehicle insurance; medical expense benefits; assignments. Invalidates assignments of medical expenses benefits provided under a motor vehicle liability insurance policy. Medical expense benefits due to a covered injured person may be paid direc... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB518 | Mandated health insurance benefits; essential benefits package. Provides that health insurance plans will not be required, effective January 1, 2014, to provide coverage for state-mandated health benefits to the extent that the benefit is not an esse... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | HB398 | Radiology benefits managers. Requires that any decision by a radiology benefits manager to deny a treating physician's order or recommendation for a diagnostic radiology test be made by a physician. An authorization to perform a diagnostic radiology ... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB705 | Health insurance; diagnostic procedures resulting from preventive care or screening. Prohibits a health carrier from imposing cost-sharing requirements with respect to any diagnostic service or test, or related procedure, that is administered or cond... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB709 | Motor vehicle insurance; medical expense benefits; assignments. Invalidates assignments of medical expenses benefits provided under a motor vehicle liability insurance policy. Medical expense benefits due to a covered injured person may be paid direc... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
