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type: "Bill"
title: "Medicaid; eligibility of incarcerated individuals."
description: "Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to convene a work group to identify and develop processes for streamlining the application and enrollment process for the Commonwealth's program of medical assistance services and the Family Access to Medical Insurance Security (FAMIS) program for eligible incarcerated individuals so that applicable services shall be available to such individuals immediately upon release from the correctional facility and to report its findings and recommendations by November 30, 2017."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2183"
citation: "Virginia HB 2183 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Study Commissions", "Committees and Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph R. Yost"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-02-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f8491891-ed76-4670-a3f0-326afe4d6e36"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2183"
source_hash: "1bddff207c5d4a2b457514a28343afaa3f6adf4c9c606fba3c66ecdd367567b7"
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 2183 (2017) — Medicaid; eligibility of incarcerated individuals.
Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to convene a work group to identify and develop processes for streamlining the application and enrollment process for the Commonwealth's program of medical assistance services and the Family Access to Medical Insurance Security (FAMIS) program for eligible incarcerated individuals so that applicable services shall be available to such individuals immediately upon release from the correctional facility and to report its findings and recommendations by November 30, 2017.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0198)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0198)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2183ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2183ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17104644D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2183H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101842D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2183)
## Votes
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **950** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Joseph R. Yost — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101842D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-02** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-02** Committee substitute agreed to 17104644D-H1
- **2017-02-02** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2183H1
- **2017-02-03** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-06** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-15** Enrolled
- **2017-02-15** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
- **2017-02-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 198 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f8491891-ed76-4670-a3f0-326afe4d6e36`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).