Virginia Senate Bill 488 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2012 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2012-02-13 - Senate: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

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 plans and qualified dental plans to qualified individuals and qualified employers. The Exchange will be funded by assessments on health insurers offering plans in the Exchange. A health plan will not be required to cover any state mandated health benefit if federal law does not require it to be covered as part of the essential benefits package.

Virginia Health Benefit Exchange; created, report.

Sen. Richard Saslaw [D]

2012-02-13 - Senate - Senate: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-02-13		Senate: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor
2012-02-13		Senate: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor
2012-02-13		Senate: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor
2012-01-20		Senate: Assigned C&L sub: Health Insurance
2012-01-11		Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2012-01-11		Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12100912D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
38	2	6400	(n/a)	See Bill Text
38	2	6412	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+sum+SB488
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+SB488+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+vot+S02V0058+SB0488