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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 HB 45."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 525"
+citation: "Virginia SB 525 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["George L. Barker"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2022-01-12"
+last_action: "2022-04-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29f0c509-15f0-4355-9c1e-3c72210e540f"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB525"
+source_hash: "2eac2446f08d204c118cc164263d085a21f5be324b67ecc73728dc84bacaf55c"
+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 525 (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 HB 45.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0441** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0441)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102490D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB525)
+3. **Printed as engrossed 22102490D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB525E)
+4. **SB525ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB525ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Commerce and Energy (19-Y 3-N) — **19–3** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments (14-Y 1-N) — **14–1** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) — **38–1** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (92-Y 7-N) — **91–7** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- George L. Barker — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102490D `introduction`
+- **2022-01-12** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-31** Impact statement from DPB (SB525)
+- **2022-01-31** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2022-01-31** Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments (14-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-03** Reading of amendments waived
+- **2022-02-03** Committee amendments agreed to
+- **2022-02-03** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB525E
+- **2022-02-03** Printed as engrossed 22102490D-E
+- **2022-02-04** Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-02-07** Impact statement from DPB (SB525E)
+- **2022-02-21** Placed on Calendar
+- **2022-02-21** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-21** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-23** Assigned sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-03-01** Reported from Commerce and Energy (19-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-03-03** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-04** Passed House (92-Y 7-N) `passage`
+- **2022-03-04** VOTE: Passage (92-Y 7-N)
+- **2022-03-09** Enrolled
+- **2022-03-09** Signed by Speaker
+- **2022-03-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB525ER)
+- **2022-03-10** Signed by President
+- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
+- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
+- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 441 (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/29f0c509-15f0-4355-9c1e-3c72210e540f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+