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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health insurance; credentialing, health care providers."
+description: "Health insurance; credentialing; health care providers. Provides that provisions requiring health insurers and other carriers to establish reasonable protocols and procedures for reimbursing a health professional for services provided while such professional's credentialing application is pending also apply to certain health maintenance organizations and to corporations operating dental or optometric plans."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 1829"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1829 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Christopher T. Head"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2021-01-06"
+last_action: "2021-03-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b74900a-0983-46cb-8ab0-3ba1cc26a147"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1829"
+source_hash: "4026a360c3d343d1a9ba0342ef2a4f0affcb5968d508abb46c446c68d89b4546"
+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 1829 (2021) — Health insurance; credentialing, health care providers.
+
+Health insurance; credentialing; health care providers. Provides that provisions requiring health insurers and other carriers to establish reasonable protocols and procedures for reimbursing a health professional for services provided while such professional's credentialing application is pending also apply to certain health maintenance organizations and to corporations operating dental or optometric plans.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0161** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0161)
+2. **HB1829ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1829ER)
+3. **HB1829H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1829H1)
+4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101075D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1829)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Christopher T. Head — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101075D `introduction`
+- **2021-01-06** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-14** Impact statement from SCC (HB1829)
+- **2021-01-14** Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-01-15** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2021-01-18** Floor substitute printed 21103204D-H1 (Head)
+- **2021-01-18** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2021-01-18** Substitute by Delegate Head agreed to 21103204D-H1
+- **2021-01-18** Engrossed by House - floor substitute HB1829H1
+- **2021-01-19** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-01-19** VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-01-20** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2021-01-20** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-28** Impact statement from SCC (HB1829H1)
+- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-02-15** Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2021-02-18** Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2021-02-18** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-02-18** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2021-02-22** Enrolled
+- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
+- **2021-02-23** Impact statement from SCC (HB1829ER)
+- **2021-02-24** Signed by Speaker
+- **2021-02-25** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
+- **2021-02-25** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
+- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 161 (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/2b74900a-0983-46cb-8ab0-3ba1cc26a147`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+