---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health insurance provider panels; incentives for mental health services."
description: "Health insurance provider panels; incentivesfor mental health services. Allows a provider panel contract between a carrier and a primary care provider to include provisions that promote comprehensive screening using evidence-based tools for mental health needs and appropriate referrals by primary care providers to mental health services that may be provided on-site, via telehealth on site, or through an off-site referral."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 87"
citation: "Virginia SB 87 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara A. Favola"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-01-01"
last_action: "2024-04-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f40a10a-38b2-4d7d-9ac3-5139e80910d9"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB87"
source_hash: "51bcae0acf00087189a7eaa81403a6ac2e3b38f2105541c0e5196e32eee0d972"
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 87 (2024) — Health insurance provider panels; incentives for mental health services.

Health insurance provider panels; incentivesfor mental health services. Allows a provider panel contract between a carrier and a primary care provider to include provisions that promote comprehensive screening using evidence-based tools for mental health needs and appropriate referrals by primary care providers to mental health services that may be provided on-site, via telehealth on site, or through an off-site referral.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0575** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0575)
2. **Committee substitute printed 24106329D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB87S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101698D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB87)
4. **SB87ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB87ER)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-01** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101698D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-01** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Impact statement from SCC (SB87)
- **2024-01-29** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2024-01-29** Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-29** Committee substitute printed 24106329D-S1 `substitution`
- **2024-01-29** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-07** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-09** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-09** Reading of substitute waived
- **2024-02-09** Committee substitute agreed to 24106329D-S1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-09** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB87S1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-09** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-09** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-15** Placed on Calendar
- **2024-02-15** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-15** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-16** Impact statement from SCC (SB87S1)
- **2024-02-19** Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-20** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-22** Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-26** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-27** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-27** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-27** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-04** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB87ER) `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Impact statement from SCC (SB87ER)
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled`
- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 575 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-05** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0575)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3f40a10a-38b2-4d7d-9ac3-5139e80910d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).