--- type: "Bill" title: "Health insurance; required provisions regarding prior authorization for health care services." description: "Health insurance; carrier contracts; required provisions regarding prior authorization for health care services; work group; report. Requires certain health insurance contracts under which an insurance carrier has the right or obligation to require prior authorization for a health care service, as defined in the bill, to include provisions governing the prior authorization process. Such required provisions include (i) time limits for a carrier to respond to prior authorization requests, (ii) a prohibition on revoking, limiting, making conditional, modifying, or restricting a previously approved prior authorization except under certain circumstances, and (iii) a requirement that a carrier shall provide the reasons for denial of a request. The bill requires a carrier to make publicly available on its website a list of health care services and codes for which prior authorization is required. The foregoing provisions have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance to establish a work group to develop and deliver a report related to the bill's provisions by November 1, 2025. This bill is identical to SB 1215." jurisdiction: "us/states/va" legislature: "Virginia General Assembly" session: "2025" identifier: "HB 2099" citation: "Virginia HB 2099 (2025)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Michelle Lopes Maldonado"] version_count: 4 action_count: 29 vote_count: 6 first_action: "2025-01-07" last_action: "2025-03-18" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dde32f86-11a1-4596-9636-9e276fa177f2" source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2099" source_hash: "1e4f3f33ba4d07765d0fdf7220734c12208cfdf57af6dd75e89413604438dc22" 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 2099 (2025) — Health insurance; required provisions regarding prior authorization for health care services. Health insurance; carrier contracts; required provisions regarding prior authorization for health care services; work group; report. Requires certain health insurance contracts under which an insurance carrier has the right or obligation to require prior authorization for a health care service, as defined in the bill, to include provisions governing the prior authorization process. Such required provisions include (i) time limits for a carrier to respond to prior authorization requests, (ii) a prohibition on revoking, limiting, making conditional, modifying, or restricting a previously approved prior authorization except under certain circumstances, and (iii) a requirement that a carrier shall provide the reasons for denial of a request. The bill requires a carrier to make publicly available on its website a list of health care services and codes for which prior authorization is required. The foregoing provisions have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance to establish a work group to develop and deliver a report related to the bill's provisions by November 1, 2025. This bill is identical to SB 1215. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1015109.PDF) 2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071014.PDF) 3. **Labor and Commerce Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1025200.PDF) 4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1052488.PDF) ## Votes - Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower - Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper - Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N) — **6–0** (pass) · lower - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper - Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper - Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Michelle Lopes Maldonado — primary (person) - Briana D. Sewell — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25104651D `filing, introduction` - **2025-01-07** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee` - **2025-01-14** Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee` - **2025-01-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N) `substitution` - **2025-01-23** Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage` - **2025-01-23** Committee substitute printed 25105015D-H1 `substitution` - **2025-01-27** Read first time `reading-1` - **2025-01-28** Read second time `reading-2` - **2025-01-28** Labor and Commerce Substitute agreed to - **2025-01-28** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution` - **2025-01-29** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3` - **2025-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) - **2025-01-30** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee` - **2025-01-30** Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (HB2099) - **2025-02-10** Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage` - **2025-02-12** Rules suspended - **2025-02-12** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) - **2025-02-12** Passed by for the day - **2025-02-13** Read third time `reading-3` - **2025-02-13** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage` - **2025-02-18** Enrolled `enrolled` - **2025-02-18** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2099ER) `passage` - **2025-02-18** Signed by Speaker `passage` - **2025-02-19** Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (HB2099) - **2025-02-20** Signed by President `passage` - **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt` - **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt` - **2025-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 58 (Effective 01/01/27) `executive-signature` - **2025-03-18** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0058) ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dde32f86-11a1-4596-9636-9e276fa177f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).