---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health insurance; calculation of cost-sharing provisions."
description: "Provides that when there is no amount actually paid or payable by a health insurer, health services plan, or health maintenance organization to a provider for the services provided, the insurer, health services plan, or health maintenance organization shall use such insurer's, health services plan's, or health maintenance organization's pre-established allowed amount to calculate the amount payable by the insured for such services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2037"
citation: "Virginia HB 2037 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson H. Miller"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/671c9746-a94e-45f7-b512-0038e90f1e44"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2037"
source_hash: "f5243822d9e0319ba357d48d10ef40115a8c9c0b1cb6467bfec0b03f621d2074"
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 2037 (2017) — Health insurance; calculation of cost-sharing provisions.

Provides that when there is no amount actually paid or payable by a health insurer, health services plan, or health maintenance organization to a provider for the services provided, the insurer, health services plan, or health maintenance organization shall use such insurer's, health services plan's, or health maintenance organization's pre-established allowed amount to calculate the amount payable by the insured for such services.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0588)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0588)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2037ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2037ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102378D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2037)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17102378D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2037E)
5. **Senate: Floor substitute printed to LIS only 17105547D-S1 (Wagner)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2037S1)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jackson H. Miller — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102378D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-27** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2017-01-27** Engrossed by House as amended HB2037E
- **2017-01-27** Printed as engrossed 17102378D-E
- **2017-01-30** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-31** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-16** Passed by for the day
- **2017-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-17** Passed by for the day
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-20** Reading of substitute waived
- **2017-02-20** Floor substitute printed to LIS only 17105547D-S1 (Wagner)
- **2017-02-20** Chair rules substitute not germane
- **2017-02-23** Enrolled
- **2017-02-23** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 588 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/671c9746-a94e-45f7-b512-0038e90f1e44`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).