---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Health Benefit Exchange; annual marketing plan."
description: "Virginia Health Benefit Exchange; marketing. Requires the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange to prepare an annual marketing plan that includes consumer outreach, licensed health insurance agents, and navigator programs. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Health Care. This bill is identical to SB 469."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 312"
citation: "Virginia HB 312 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sam Rasoul"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 37
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da34fdcc-a8b8-4c3e-89bd-8c135a5f13ac"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB312"
source_hash: "3d93b2846bbc52389a5b9d78bf747717d880332dd59a6af76d6a79b0d741a83c"
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 312 (2022) — Virginia Health Benefit Exchange; annual marketing plan.

Virginia Health Benefit Exchange; marketing. Requires the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange to prepare an annual marketing plan that includes consumer outreach, licensed health insurance agents, and navigator programs. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Health Care. This bill is identical to SB 469.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0250** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0250)
2. **HB312ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB312ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101247D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB312)
4. **Printed as engrossed 22101247D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB312E)

## Votes

- Referred from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (69-Y 30-N) — **69–29** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Energy with amendment(s) (13-Y 9-N) — **13–9** (pass) · lower
- Rereferred from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (6-Y 4-N) — **6–4** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sam Rasoul — primary (person)
- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Emily M. Brewer — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
- M. Keith Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101247D `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** Impact statement from SCC (HB312)
- **2022-01-25** Referred from Health, Welfare and Institutions
- **2022-01-25** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-28** Assigned sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-03** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-03** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (6-Y 4-N)
- **2022-02-03** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- **2022-02-08** Reported from Commerce and Energy with amendment(s) (13-Y 9-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-08** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-09** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-09** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-09** Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-11** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-14** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-14** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2022-02-14** Engrossed by House as amended HB312E
- **2022-02-14** Printed as engrossed 22101247D-E
- **2022-02-15** Read third time and passed House (69-Y 30-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-15** VOTE: Passage (69-Y 30-N)
- **2022-02-16** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-16** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-21** Impact statement from SCC (HB312E)
- **2022-02-24** Rereferred from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-24** Rereferred to Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-02** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-03** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-03** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Enrolled
- **2022-03-08** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-08** Signed by President
- **2022-03-10** Impact statement from SCC (HB312ER)
- **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
- **2022-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 250 (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/da34fdcc-a8b8-4c3e-89bd-8c135a5f13ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).