---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health insurance; credits for certain local officials and employees."
description: "Health insurance; credits for certain local officials and employees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1789"
citation: "Virginia HB 1789 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Filler-Corn"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-01-10"
last_action: "2023-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cec9b4ff-be15-4deb-b8c2-56054815f60a"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1789"
source_hash: "3f3ae0ab3105e357d19697f89bb8efd736926b524bcb956108a994e7e7e105d1"
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 1789 (2023) — Health insurance; credits for certain local officials and employees.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0581** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0581)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23106152D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1789H1)
3. **Committee substitute printed 23106917D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1789S1)
4. **HB1789ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1789ER)
5. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102639D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1789)

## Votes

- VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Filler-Corn — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102639D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-10** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-15** Assigned App. sub: Compensation and Retirement `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-19** Impact statement from VRS (HB1789)
- **2023-02-01** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-02-01** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2023-02-01** Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-01** Committee substitute printed 23106152D-H1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-06** Committee substitute agreed to 23106152D-H1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-06** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1789H1 `substitution`
- **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** Impact statement from VRS (HB1789H1)
- **2023-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-02-08** Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-15** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-02-15** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-15** Committee substitute printed 23106917D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-16** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-17** Reading of substitute waived
- **2023-02-17** Committee substitute agreed to 23106917D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-17** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1789S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-17** Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-20** Impact statement from VRS (HB1789S1)
- **2023-02-21** Senate substitute agreed to by House 23106917D-S1 (98-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2023-02-21** VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-24** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-24** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1789ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-24** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-02-25** Impact statement from VRS (HB1789ER)
- **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`
- **2023-03-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 581 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-26** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0581)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cec9b4ff-be15-4deb-b8c2-56054815f60a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).