---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health insurance; tobacco surcharge."
description: "Health insurance; tobacco surcharge."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 1011"
citation: "Virginia SB 1011 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edwards"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-06"
last_action: "2023-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da7d1429-d89d-46a7-b176-387fc3b79f87"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1011"
source_hash: "d67a9393cfa3fbe7ed15e8121dc01e5dca64c0e176f3756ba6c5aaa2f601383d"
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 1011 (2023) — Health insurance; tobacco surcharge.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0683** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0683)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101373D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1011)
3. **Printed as engrossed 23101373D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1011E)
4. **SB1011ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1011ER)

## Votes

- Reported from Commerce and Energy (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (91-Y 5-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Edwards — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101373D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-06** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-15** Impact statement from SCC (SB1011)
- **2023-01-16** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-16** Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-18** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-01-19** Reading of amendment waived
- **2023-01-19** Committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2023-01-19** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1011E
- **2023-01-19** Printed as engrossed 23101373D-E
- **2023-01-20** Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-01** Impact statement from SCC (SB1011E)
- **2023-02-09** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-09** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Reported from Commerce and Energy (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-20** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-21** Passed House (91-Y 5-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-21** VOTE: Passage (91-Y 5-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-24** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-24** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1011ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-24** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-02-24** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-27** Impact statement from SCC (SB1011ER)
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 683 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-27** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0683)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/da7d1429-d89d-46a7-b176-387fc3b79f87`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).