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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health carriers; licensed athletic trainers."
+description: "Health carriers; licensed athletic trainers. Requires health insurers and health service plan providers whose policies or contracts cover services that may be legally performed by a licensed athletic trainer to provide equal coverage for such services when rendered by a licensed athletic trainer when such services are performed in an office setting. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Health Insurance Reform Commission. This bill is identical to SB 525."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 45"
+citation: "Virginia HB 45 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["R. Lee Ware"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 33
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2021-12-31"
+last_action: "2022-04-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6450ee8b-83ec-4d5f-8801-dc93905f93de"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB45"
+source_hash: "a3f33d354060ed658647a8b737845c34b2a08b415d586d44c25eeb52b3c4d35a"
+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 45 (2022) — Health carriers; licensed athletic trainers.
+
+Health carriers; licensed athletic trainers. Requires health insurers and health service plan providers whose policies or contracts cover services that may be legally performed by a licensed athletic trainer to provide equal coverage for such services when rendered by a licensed athletic trainer when such services are performed in an office setting. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Health Insurance Reform Commission. This bill is identical to SB 525.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0440** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0440)
+2. **HB45ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB45ER)
+3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101946D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB45)
+4. **Printed as engrossed 22101946D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB45E)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments (14-Y 1-N) — **14–1** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (86-Y 13-N) — **85–13** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Commerce and Energy with amendment(s) (18-Y 3-N) — **18–3** (pass) · lower
+- VOTE: Adoption (88-Y 10-N) — **87–10** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 3-N) — **7–3** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 1-N) — **39–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- R. Lee Ware — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-12-31** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101946D `introduction`
+- **2021-12-31** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-12** Impact statement from SCC (HB45)
+- **2022-01-18** Assigned sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-20** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2022-01-20** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 3-N)
+- **2022-01-25** Reported from Commerce and Energy with amendment(s) (18-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2022-01-28** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2022-01-28** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2022-01-28** Engrossed by House as amended HB45E
+- **2022-01-28** Printed as engrossed 22101946D-E
+- **2022-01-31** Read third time and passed House (86-Y 13-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-01-31** VOTE: Passage (86-Y 13-N)
+- **2022-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2022-02-01** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-07** Impact statement from SCC (HB45E)
+- **2022-02-21** Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments (14-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-23** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2022-02-24** Reading of amendments waived
+- **2022-02-24** Committee amendments agreed to
+- **2022-02-24** Engrossed by Senate as amended
+- **2022-02-24** Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 1-N) `passage`
+- **2022-02-28** Senate amendments agreed to by House (88-Y 10-N)
+- **2022-02-28** VOTE: Adoption (88-Y 10-N)
+- **2022-03-02** Enrolled
+- **2022-03-02** Signed by Speaker
+- **2022-03-03** Signed by President
+- **2022-03-03** Impact statement from SCC (HB45ER)
+- **2022-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
+- **2022-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
+- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 440 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6450ee8b-83ec-4d5f-8801-dc93905f93de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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