---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health insurance; coverage for mobile crisis response services and residential crisis units."
description: "Health insurance; coverage for mobile crisis response services and residential crisis units."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2216"
citation: "Virginia HB 2216 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Leftwich"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce48712e-dfae-4128-aaba-8f401dda9a4c"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB2216"
source_hash: "bcfe064170c3700c73938c8d57a812d692d49c70025493240e2edc40d6126bf7"
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 2216 (2023) — Health insurance; coverage for mobile crisis response services and residential crisis units.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0186** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0186)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23106630D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2216S1)
3. **HB2216ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2216ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103352D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2216)
5. **Printed as engrossed 23103352D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2216E)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Energy with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Leftwich — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103352D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-11** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-24** Impact statement from DPB (HB2216)
- **2023-01-25** Assigned sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-02** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-02-02** Reported from Commerce and Energy with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-06** Committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-06** Engrossed by House as amended HB2216E
- **2023-02-06** Printed as engrossed 23103352D-E
- **2023-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-07** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-02-08** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** Impact statement from DPB (HB2216E)
- **2023-02-13** Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-13** Committee substitute printed 23106630D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-15** Impact statement from DPB (HB2216S1)
- **2023-02-15** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-16** Reading of substitute waived
- **2023-02-16** Committee substitute agreed to 23106630D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-16** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2216S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-16** Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-20** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-20** Senate substitute agreed to by House 23106630D-S1 (99-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2023-02-20** VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-23** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-23** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2216ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-02-28** Impact statement from DPB (HB2216ER)
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 186 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-22** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0186)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ce48712e-dfae-4128-aaba-8f401dda9a4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).