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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health insurance; calculation of cost-sharing provisions."
+description: "Provides that when there is no amount actually paid or payable by a health insurer, health services plan, or health maintenance organization to a provider for the services provided, the insurer, health services plan, or health maintenance organization shall use such insurer's, health services plan's, or health maintenance organization's pre-established allowed amount to calculate the amount payable by the insured for such services."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 2037"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2037 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jackson H. Miller"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2017-01-10"
+last_action: "2017-03-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/671c9746-a94e-45f7-b512-0038e90f1e44"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2037"
+source_hash: "f5243822d9e0319ba357d48d10ef40115a8c9c0b1cb6467bfec0b03f621d2074"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 2037 (2017) — Health insurance; calculation of cost-sharing provisions.
+
+Provides that when there is no amount actually paid or payable by a health insurer, health services plan, or health maintenance organization to a provider for the services provided, the insurer, health services plan, or health maintenance organization shall use such insurer's, health services plan's, or health maintenance organization's pre-established allowed amount to calculate the amount payable by the insured for such services.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0588)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0588)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2037ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2037ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102378D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2037)
+4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17102378D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2037E)
+5. **Senate: Floor substitute printed to LIS only 17105547D-S1 (Wagner)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2037S1)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jackson H. Miller — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102378D `introduction`
+- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-26** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2017-01-27** Committee amendments agreed to
+- **2017-01-27** Engrossed by House as amended HB2037E
+- **2017-01-27** Printed as engrossed 17102378D-E
+- **2017-01-30** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2017-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2017-01-31** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-16** Passed by for the day
+- **2017-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-17** Passed by for the day
+- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-20** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2017-02-20** Floor substitute printed to LIS only 17105547D-S1 (Wagner)
+- **2017-02-20** Chair rules substitute not germane
+- **2017-02-23** Enrolled
+- **2017-02-23** Signed by Speaker
+- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
+- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
+- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
+- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 588 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/671c9746-a94e-45f7-b512-0038e90f1e44`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+