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+type: "Bill"
+title: "COVID-19; DMAS shall deem testing, treatment, and vaccination to be emergency services."
+description: "Department of Medical Assistance Services; testing for, treatment of, and vaccination against COVID-19; emergency services. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to, during a public health emergency related to COVID-19 declared by the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, deem testing for, treatment of, and vaccination against COVID-19 to be emergency services for which payment may be made pursuant to federal law for certain aliens not lawfully admitted for permanent residence."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 2124"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2124 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alfonso H. Lopez"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 45
+vote_count: 10
+first_action: "2021-01-12"
+last_action: "2021-03-31"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/436558b1-4abd-4a66-b2ef-d0ae06ac9d47"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB2124"
+source_hash: "8324b93a40bf6d26d6b98a8e53c6ff494695eac69c836bbf94f2698d262848ac"
+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 2124 (2021) — COVID-19; DMAS shall deem testing, treatment, and vaccination to be emergency services.
+
+Department of Medical Assistance Services; testing for, treatment of, and vaccination against COVID-19; emergency services. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to, during a public health emergency related to COVID-19 declared by the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, deem testing for, treatment of, and vaccination against COVID-19 to be emergency services for which payment may be made pursuant to federal law for certain aliens not lawfully admitted for permanent residence.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0476** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0476)
+2. **HB2124ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2124ER)
+3. **Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/21 21102611D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2124)
+4. **Printed as engrossed 21102611D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2124E)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (12-Y 9-N) — **12–9** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate with amendment (38-Y 1-N) — **38–1** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (4-Y 2-N) — **4–2** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (12-Y 6-N) — **12–6** (pass) · lower
+- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Adoption (61-Y 38-N) — **60–38** (pass) · lower
+- VOTE: Passage (55-Y 45-N) — **54–45** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alfonso H. Lopez — primary (person)
+- Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
+- Danica A. Roem — cosponsor (person)
+- David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
+- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
+- Don L. Scott — cosponsor (person)
+- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
+- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee J. Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
+- Roslyn C. Tyler — cosponsor (person)
+- Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/21 21102611D `introduction`
+- **2021-01-12** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-21** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (12-Y 9-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-01-21** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-22** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-22** Impact statement from DPB (HB2124)
+- **2021-01-27** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2021-01-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (4-Y 2-N)
+- **2021-01-27** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2021-01-27** Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (12-Y 6-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-01-28** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2021-01-29** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2021-01-29** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2021-01-29** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2021-01-29** Amendments by Delegate Lopez agreed to `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-01-29** Emergency clause deleted
+- **2021-01-29** Engrossed by House as amended HB2124E
+- **2021-01-29** Printed as engrossed 21102611D-E
+- **2021-02-01** Read third time and passed House (55-Y 45-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-01** VOTE: Passage (55-Y 45-N)
+- **2021-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2021-02-02** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-05** Impact statement from DPB (HB2124E)
+- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-02-12** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-18** Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-18** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-22** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2021-02-22** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-02-25** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2021-02-25** Reading of amendment waived
+- **2021-02-25** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2021-02-25** Engrossed by Senate as amended
+- **2021-02-25** Passed Senate with amendment (38-Y 1-N) `passage`
+- **2021-02-25** Placed on Calendar
+- **2021-02-25** Senate amendment agreed to by House (61-Y 38-N)
+- **2021-02-25** VOTE: Adoption (61-Y 38-N)
+- **2021-03-09** Enrolled
+- **2021-03-09** Signed by President
+- **2021-03-10** Impact statement from DPB (HB2124ER)
+- **2021-03-11** Signed by Speaker
+- **2021-03-15** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 15, 2021
+- **2021-03-15** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
+- **2021-03-31** Approved by Governor-Chapter 476 (effective - see bill) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/436558b1-4abd-4a66-b2ef-d0ae06ac9d47`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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