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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health insurance; short-term limited-duration medical plans, definitions, effective date."
+description: "Health insurance; short-term limited-durationmedical plans. Prohibits carriers from issuing in the Commonwealthany short-term limited-duration medical plan with a duration that exceeds three months or that can be renewed or extended, or if theplan's issuance would result in a covered person being covered bya short-term limited-duration medical plan for more than three monthsin any 12-month period. The measure prohibits a carrier from issuing a short-term limited-duration medical plan during an annual openenrollment period. The measure also requires carriers to rebate premiumsfrom short-term limited-duration medical plans when the medical loss ratio for such plans is less than 85 percent."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 404"
+citation: "Virginia SB 404 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ghazala F. Hashmi"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 48
+vote_count: 9
+first_action: "2020-01-07"
+last_action: "2020-04-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e90d2ce2-b3ab-4f2f-aea2-17357bb191fe"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB404"
+source_hash: "a16be11b0060c1ac84a20d62e65403fe3f7a5f2d22acda9bba883dc9070524f1"
+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 SB 404 (2020) — Health insurance; short-term limited-duration medical plans, definitions, effective date.
+
+Health insurance; short-term limited-durationmedical plans. Prohibits carriers from issuing in the Commonwealthany short-term limited-duration medical plan with a duration that exceeds three months or that can be renewed or extended, or if theplan's issuance would result in a covered person being covered bya short-term limited-duration medical plan for more than three monthsin any 12-month period. The measure prohibits a carrier from issuing a short-term limited-duration medical plan during an annual openenrollment period. The measure also requires carriers to rebate premiumsfrom short-term limited-duration medical plans when the medical loss ratio for such plans is less than 85 percent.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1077)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP1077)
+2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB404ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB404ER)
+3. **Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB404H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB404H1)
+4. **Engrossed by Senate as amended SB404E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB404E)
+5. **Impact statement from SCC (SB404)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB404)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N) — **0–40** (fail) · upper
+- Conference report agreed to by Senate (21-Y 19-N) — **21–19** (pass) · upper
+- Senate acceded to request (35-Y 2-N) — **35–2** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Adoption (55-Y 43-N) — **54–43** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (12-Y 9-N) — **12–9** (pass) · lower
+- VOTE: Passage (54-Y 43-N) — **53–43** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 20-N) — **20–20** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments (8-Y 7-N) — **8–7** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ghazala F. Hashmi — primary (person)
+- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102773D `introduction`
+- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-17** Impact statement from SCC (SB404)
+- **2020-01-27** Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments (8-Y 7-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-29** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-01-30** Passed by for the day
+- **2020-01-31** Passed by for the day
+- **2020-02-03** Passed by for the day
+- **2020-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-04** Reading of amendments waived
+- **2020-02-04** Committee amendments agreed to
+- **2020-02-04** Reading of amendments waived
+- **2020-02-04** Amendments by Senator Barker agreed to `amendment-passage`
+- **2020-02-04** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB404E
+- **2020-02-04** Printed as engrossed 20102773D-E
+- **2020-02-05** Passed by for the day
+- **2020-02-06** Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 20-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-02-06** Chair votes Yes
+- **2020-02-10** Impact statement from SCC (SB404E)
+- **2020-02-13** Placed on Calendar
+- **2020-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-13** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-18** Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (12-Y 9-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-18** Committee substitute printed 20108547D-H1 `substitution`
+- **2020-02-20** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-21** Committee substitute agreed to 20108547D-H1
+- **2020-02-21** Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB404H1
+- **2020-02-21** Passed House with substitute (54-Y 43-N) `passage`
+- **2020-02-21** VOTE: Passage (54-Y 43-N)
+- **2020-02-21** Impact statement from SCC (SB404H1)
+- **2020-02-25** House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N)
+- **2020-02-26** House insisted on substitute
+- **2020-02-26** House requested conference committee
+- **2020-02-28** Senate acceded to request (35-Y 2-N)
+- **2020-02-28** Conferees appointed by Senate
+- **2020-03-02** Conferees appointed by House
+- **2020-03-05** Amended by conference committee
+- **2020-03-05** Conference report agreed to by House (55-Y 43-N)
+- **2020-03-05** VOTE: Adoption (55-Y 43-N)
+- **2020-03-07** Conference report agreed to by Senate (21-Y 19-N)
+- **2020-03-18** Enrolled
+- **2020-03-18** Signed by President
+- **2020-03-19** Signed by Speaker
+- **2020-03-20** Impact statement from SCC (SB404ER)
+- **2020-03-20** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
+- **2020-03-20** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
+- **2020-04-10** Approved by Governor-Chapter 1077 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e90d2ce2-b3ab-4f2f-aea2-17357bb191fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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