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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health insurance; required provisions regarding prior authorization for health care services."
+description: "Health insurance; carrier contracts; required provisions regarding prior authorization for health care services; work group; report. Requires certain health insurance contracts under which an insurance carrier has the right or obligation to require prior authorization for a health care service, as defined in the bill, to include provisions governing the prior authorization process. Such required provisions include (i) time limits for a carrier to respond to prior authorization requests, (ii) a prohibition on revoking, limiting, making conditional, modifying, or restricting a previously approved prior authorization except under certain circumstances, and (iii) a requirement that a carrier shall provide the reasons for denial of a request. The bill requires a carrier to make publicly available on its website a list of health care services and codes for which prior authorization is required. The foregoing provisions have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance to establish a work group to develop and deliver a report related to the bill's provisions by November 1, 2025. This bill is identical to HB 2099."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 1215"
+citation: "Virginia SB 1215 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Stella G. Pekarsky"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-01-08"
+last_action: "2025-03-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e322ac6c-ac21-45ff-abf2-e1e844508797"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1215"
+source_hash: "2575e6bbba2ec98fef384d5402803444c8150c164197be32595b4a3b1375739d"
+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 1215 (2025) — Health insurance; required provisions regarding prior authorization for health care services.
+
+Health insurance; carrier contracts; required provisions regarding prior authorization for health care services; work group; report. Requires certain health insurance contracts under which an insurance carrier has the right or obligation to require prior authorization for a health care service, as defined in the bill, to include provisions governing the prior authorization process. Such required provisions include (i) time limits for a carrier to respond to prior authorization requests, (ii) a prohibition on revoking, limiting, making conditional, modifying, or restricting a previously approved prior authorization except under certain circumstances, and (iii) a requirement that a carrier shall provide the reasons for denial of a request. The bill requires a carrier to make publicly available on its website a list of health care services and codes for which prior authorization is required. The foregoing provisions have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance to establish a work group to develop and deliver a report related to the bill's provisions by November 1, 2025. This bill is identical to HB 2099.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1018266.PDF)
+2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071018.PDF)
+3. **Commerce and Labor Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1024029.PDF)
+4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1047376.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed House (94-Y 0-N) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Labor and Commerce (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Stella G. Pekarsky — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104544D `filing, introduction`
+- **2025-01-08** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-20** Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-20** Committee substitute printed 25105395D-S1 `substitution`
+- **2025-01-22** Rules suspended
+- **2025-01-22** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-01-22** Passed by for the day
+- **2025-01-23** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-23** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2025-01-23** Commerce and Labor Substitute agreed to
+- **2025-01-23** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute `substitution`
+- **2025-01-24** Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-03** Placed on Calendar
+- **2025-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-03** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-06** Reported from Labor and Commerce (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-11** Passed House (94-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2025-02-13** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-02-13** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1215ER) `passage`
+- **2025-02-13** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-02-16** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-02-19** Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (SB1215)
+- **2025-02-20** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 20, 2025 `enrolled`
+- **2025-02-20** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 68 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-18** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0068)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e322ac6c-ac21-45ff-abf2-e1e844508797`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+