---
type: "Bill"
title: "Qualified health plans; state-mandated health benefits."
description: "Qualified health plans; state-mandated health benefits. Authorizes a qualified health plan offered on the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange to provide state-mandated health benefits that are not provided in the essential health benefits package. Under current law, qualified health plans are prohibited from providing such state-mandated health benefits. This bill is identical to SB 449."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 431"
citation: "Virginia HB 431 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kathleen Murphy"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 55
vote_count: 14
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba14e8dc-91c3-4885-9974-0292e6ef9111"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB431"
source_hash: "bc987a7b7d17143888618897b6241d6b0b2e11f55a4e4da3d3c542d113872fd9"
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 431 (2022) — Qualified health plans; state-mandated health benefits.

Qualified health plans; state-mandated health benefits. Authorizes a qualified health plan offered on the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange to provide state-mandated health benefits that are not provided in the essential health benefits package. Under current law, qualified health plans are prohibited from providing such state-mandated health benefits. This bill is identical to SB 449.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0560** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0560)
2. **Conference substitute printed 22107826D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB431H1)
3. **HB431ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB431ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102882D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB431)
5. **Printed as engrossed 22102882D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB431E)

## Votes

- VOTE: Adoption #2 (94-Y 0-N) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (16-Y 0-N) — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Rejected (0-Y 95-N) — **0–94** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate insisted on amendment (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Energy (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (92-Y 0-N) — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kathleen Murphy — primary (person)
- Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
- Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102882D `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27** Reported from Commerce and Energy (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-27** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-28** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** Impact statement from SCC (HB431)
- **2022-02-01** Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (8-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-08** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-08** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-09** Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (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 HB431E
- **2022-02-14** Printed as engrossed 22102882D-E
- **2022-02-15** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-15** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-16** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-16** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-21** Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-21** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Impact statement from SCC (HB431E)
- **2022-03-01** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (16-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** Reading of amendment waived
- **2022-03-03** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2022-03-03** Reading of amendment waived
- **2022-03-03** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2022-03-03** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2022-03-03** Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Senate amendments rejected by House (0-Y 95-N)
- **2022-03-07** VOTE: Rejected (0-Y 95-N)
- **2022-03-08** Senate insisted on amendment (39-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-08** Senate requested conference committee
- **2022-03-09** House acceded to request
- **2022-03-09** Conferees appointed by House
- **2022-03-10** Conferees appointed by Senate
- **2022-03-12** Amended by conference committee
- **2022-03-12** Conference substitute printed 22107826D-H1
- **2022-03-12** Passed by temporarily
- **2022-03-12** Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-12** Conference report agreed to by House (92-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-12** VOTE: Adoption (92-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-12** Reconsideration of conference report agreed to by House
- **2022-03-12** Conference report agreed to by House (94-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-12** VOTE: Adoption #2 (94-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-15** Impact statement from SCC (HB431H1)
- **2022-03-21** Enrolled
- **2022-03-21** Signed by President
- **2022-03-22** 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
- **2022-03-24** Impact statement from SCC (HB431ER)
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 560 (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/ba14e8dc-91c3-4885-9974-0292e6ef9111`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).