Virginia Senate Bill 434 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on April 11 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-04-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0544)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Health insurance; coverage for mental health and substance use disorders; report. Requires the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance, in its report regarding denied claims, complaints, appeals, and network adequacy involving mental health and substance abuse disorder coverage, to include a summary of certain comparative analyses from health carriers related to mental health parity and an explanation of whether the analyses were considered compliant and any corrective actions required of the health carrier by the Bureau. The bill also changes the annual deadline for such report from September 1 to November 1. Health insurance; coverage for mental health and substance use disorders; report. Requires the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance, in its report regarding denied claims, complaints, appeals, and network adequacy involving mental health and substance abuse disorder coverage, to include a summary of certain comparative analyses from health carriers related to mental health parity and an explanation of whether the analyses were considered compliant and any corrective actions required of the health carrier by the Bureau. The bill also changes the annual deadline for such report from September 1 to November 1.

Health insurance; coverage for mental health and substance use disorders, report.

Sen. George Barker [D]

2022-03-08 - House - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 98 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2022-03-03 - House - House: Reported from Commerce and Energy (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-07 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-01-24 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-04-11		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0544)
2022-04-11		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 544 (effective 7/1/22)
2022-03-22		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
2022-03-22	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
2022-03-10	House	Signed by Speaker
2022-03-10	Senate	Signed by President
2022-03-10	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB434ER)
2022-03-10	Senate	Enrolled
2022-03-08	House	VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
2022-03-08	House	Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
2022-03-08	House	Read third time
2022-03-07	House	Read second time
2022-03-03	House	Reported from Commerce and Energy (22-Y 0-N)
2022-02-22	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy
2022-02-22	House	Read first time
2022-02-22	House	Placed on Calendar
2022-02-07	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2022-02-04	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB434S1
2022-02-04	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 22105029D-S1
2022-02-04	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2022-02-04	Senate	Read second time
2022-02-03	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2022-02-02	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
2022-01-24	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2022-01-24	Senate	Committee substitute printed 22105029D-S1
2022-01-24	Senate	Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
2022-01-11	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2022-01-11	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101750D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
38	2	3412.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB434
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB434+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB434S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB434ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0544+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/22105029D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+SB434F171+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+SB434FS1171+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+SB434FER171+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S02V0031+SB0434
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S05V0067+SB0434
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+SV0211SB0434+SB0434
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+SV0233SB0434+SB0434
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+H23V0212+SB0434
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+HV1627+SB0434