---
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 HB 312."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 469"
citation: "Virginia SB 469 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer L. McClellan"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3abaef36-109a-44ee-9384-fe0139e03ec6"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB469"
source_hash: "ec92b690214f08ac2cdc933ad5e1a1f71455470de60897db622bf13dcfab7802"
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 469 (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 HB 312.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0251** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0251)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103514D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB469)
3. **Printed as engrossed 22103514D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB469E)
4. **SB469ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB469ER)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (67-Y 31-N) — **67–30** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Energy (12-Y 10-N) — **12–10** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jennifer L. McClellan — primary (person)
- Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103514D `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** Impact statement from SCC (SB469)
- **2022-01-24** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-01-24** Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-24** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-02** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-04** Reading of amendment waived
- **2022-02-04** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2022-02-04** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB469E
- **2022-02-04** Printed as engrossed 22103514D-E
- **2022-02-07** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-14** Impact statement from SCC (SB469E)
- **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`
- **2022-03-03** Reported from Commerce and Energy (12-Y 10-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-07** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-08** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** Passed House (67-Y 31-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-08** VOTE: Passage (67-Y 31-N)
- **2022-03-10** Enrolled
- **2022-03-10** Impact statement from SCC (SB469ER)
- **2022-03-10** Signed by President
- **2022-03-10** Signed by Speaker
- **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 251 (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/3abaef36-109a-44ee-9384-fe0139e03ec6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).