republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-1970.md

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Bill	Telemedicine services; payment and coverage of services.	Requires insurers, corporations, or health maintenance organizations to cover medically necessary remote patient monitoring services as part of their coverage of telemedicine services to the full extent that these services are available. The bill defines remote patient monitoring services as the delivery of home health services using telecommunications technology to enhance the delivery of home health care, including monitoring of clinical patient data such as weight, blood pressure, pulse, pulse oximetry, blood glucose, and other condition-specific data; medication adherence monitoring; and interactive video conferencing with or without digital image upload. The bill requires the Board of Medical Assistance Services to include in the state plan for medical assistance services a provision for the payment of medical assistance for medically necessary health care services provided through telemedicine services. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 1970	Virginia HB 1970 (2019)	bill	Corporations Health Insurance Professions and Occupations	enacted	Terry G. Kilgore	6	23	8	2019-01-07	2019-03-05	openstates	ocd-bill/1471d67e-c661-46be-9ecf-aca0e93abcba	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1970	1c514c804c53e277fcea4285e67626b212a6f53ddd4d75c96f596e78b93ebcef	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1970 (2019) — Telemedicine services; payment and coverage of services.

Requires insurers, corporations, or health maintenance organizations to cover medically necessary remote patient monitoring services as part of their coverage of telemedicine services to the full extent that these services are available. The bill defines remote patient monitoring services as the delivery of home health services using telecommunications technology to enhance the delivery of home health care, including monitoring of clinical patient data such as weight, blood pressure, pulse, pulse oximetry, blood glucose, and other condition-specific data; medication adherence monitoring; and interactive video conferencing with or without digital image upload. The bill requires the Board of Medical Assistance Services to include in the state plan for medical assistance services a provision for the payment of medical assistance for medically necessary health care services provided through telemedicine services. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0211) (committee substitute) — source
2. House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1970ER) (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Committee substitute printed 19105496D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
5. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102304D (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate amendments engrossed (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health with amendment — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate amendment agreed to by House — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with amendment — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Terry G. Kilgore — primary (person)
• A. Benton "Ben" Chafin — cosponsor (person)
• Christopher T. Head — cosponsor (person)
• Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffrey L. Campbell — cosponsor (person)
• John J. McGuire, III — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102304D introduction
• 2019-01-07 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2019-01-11 Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2019-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-02-01 Read second time reading-2
• 2019-02-01 Committee substitute agreed to 19105496D-H1
• 2019-02-01 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1970H1
• 2019-02-04 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2019-02-04 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2019-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-02-05 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2019-02-11 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-11 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2019-02-11 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2019-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2019-02-13 Senate amendment agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
• 2019-02-15 Enrolled
• 2019-02-15 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-02-15 Signed by President
• 2019-02-19 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 19, 2019
• 2019-02-19 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
• 2019-03-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 211 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1471d67e-c661-46be-9ecf-aca0e93abcba. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).