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type: "Bill"
title: "Disability insurance; coverage for disability arising out of childbirth, report."
description: "Disability insurance; childbirth. Requires each insurer proposing to issue individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing short-term disability income protection coverage whose policies provide coverage for short-term disability arising out of childbirth to provide coverage for a payable benefit of at least 12 weeks following childbirth for such a disability. The bill also requires the State Corporation Commission to solicit comments from insurance industry stakeholders on the impact of the bill on current and future short-term disability policyholders and to report to the Chairs of the House Committee on Labor and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor prior to December 1, 2020."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 567"
citation: "Virginia SB 567 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Siobhan S. Dunnavant"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff4c4ff6-9df8-4a25-a86d-0ae2685ba2eb"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB567"
source_hash: "952feabdde0e12a6841bfb0fc7a6f291ece11899a5711d6007465ffe5e3fd1e6"
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 SB 567 (2020) — Disability insurance; coverage for disability arising out of childbirth, report.
Disability insurance; childbirth. Requires each insurer proposing to issue individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing short-term disability income protection coverage whose policies provide coverage for short-term disability arising out of childbirth to provide coverage for a payable benefit of at least 12 weeks following childbirth for such a disability. The bill also requires the State Corporation Commission to solicit comments from insurance industry stakeholders on the impact of the bill on current and future short-term disability policyholders and to report to the Chairs of the House Committee on Labor and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor prior to December 1, 2020.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0935)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0935)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB567ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB567ER)
3. **Impact statement from SCC (SB567)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB567)
4. **Impact statement from SCC (SB567H1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB567H1)
## Votes
- House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Siobhan S. Dunnavant — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101951D `introduction`
- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** Impact statement from SCC (SB567)
- **2020-02-09** Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-11** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-11** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-11** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-11** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-14** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-14** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-14** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-25** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-02-25** Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-25** Committee substitute printed 20108491D-H1 `substitution`
- **2020-02-26** Impact statement from SCC (SB567H1)
- **2020-02-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-28** Committee substitute agreed to 20108491D-H1
- **2020-02-28** Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB567H1
- **2020-02-28** Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-28** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-02** House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-02** Title replaced 20108491D-H1
- **2020-03-06** Enrolled
- **2020-03-06** Signed by President
- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-09** Impact statement from SCC (SB567ER)
- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-04-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 935 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff4c4ff6-9df8-4a25-a86d-0ae2685ba2eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).