Virginia House Bill 2538 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: Passed on March 18 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-03-18 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0432)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Balance billing; elective services. Requires a facility where a covered person receives scheduled elective services to post the required notice or inform the covered person of the required notice at the time of pre-admission or pre-registration. The bill also requires such a facility to inform the covered person or his legal representative of the names of all provider groups providing health care services at the facility, that consultation with the covered person's managed care plan is recommended to determine if the provider groups providing health care services at the facility are in-network providers, and that the covered person may be financially responsible for health care services performed by a provider that is not an in-network provider, in addition to any cost-sharing requirements.

Health insurance; payment of out-of-network providers, patient access to elective services.

Del. Lee Ware [R]

Del. Betsy Carr [D]

Del. Hyland Fowler [R]

2019-02-18 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-13 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-05 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-31 - House - House: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (19-Y 0-N) (Y: 19 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-29 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-18		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0432)
2019-03-18		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 432 (effective 7/1/19)
2019-02-28		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
2019-02-28	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
2019-02-21	Senate	Signed by President
2019-02-21	House	Signed by Speaker
2019-02-21	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2538ER)
2019-02-21	House	Enrolled
2019-02-18	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2019-02-18	Senate	Read third time
2019-02-15	Senate	Passed by for the day
2019-02-14	Senate	Passed by for the day
2019-02-13	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2019-02-11	Senate	Reported from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N)
2019-02-06	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2019-02-06	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2019-02-05	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
2019-02-05	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
2019-02-04	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2538H1
2019-02-04	House	Committee substitute agreed to 19105085D-H1
2019-02-04	House	Read second time
2019-02-03	House	Read first time
2019-01-31	House	Committee substitute printed 19105085D-H1
2019-01-31	House	Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (19-Y 0-N)
2019-01-29	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
2019-01-15	House	Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #1
2019-01-09	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2019-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103960D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
38	2	3438	(n/a)	See Bill Text
38	2	3445	(n/a)	See Bill Text
38	2	3445.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2538
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2538+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2538H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2538ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0432+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H1401V0028+HB2538
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H14V0049+HB2538
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV2390+HB2538
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S02V0163+HB2538
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0547HB2538+HB2538
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0743HB2538+HB2538