republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-605.md

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Bill	Health insurance; formula and enteral nutrition products.	Health insurance; formula and enteral nutrition products. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations whose policy, contract, or plan includes coverage for medicines to classify medically necessary formula and enteral nutrition products as medicine and to include coverage for medically necessary formula and enteral nutrition products for covered individuals requiring treatment for an inherited metabolic disorder. Such coverage is required to be provided on the same terms and subject to the same conditions imposed on other medicines covered under the policy, contract, or plan. The measure provides that the required coverage includes any medical equipment, supplies, and services that are required to administer the covered formula or enteral nutrition products. These requirements apply only to formula and enteral nutrition products that are furnished pursuant to the prescription or order of a physician or other health care professional qualified to make such prescription or order for the management of an inherited metabolic disorder and are used under medical supervision. This bill incorporates SB 654 and is identical to HB 840.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 605	Virginia SB 605 (2020)	bill		enacted	Ryan T. McDougle	5	34	6	2020-01-07	2020-03-10	openstates	ocd-bill/b5a53344-43e7-4df0-8bb8-b9342df6e61d	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB605	447caef6605e38523a997951f739d02d5e916e20109fa69bb415b85b53ef58ab	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 605 (2020) — Health insurance; formula and enteral nutrition products.

Health insurance; formula and enteral nutrition products. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations whose policy, contract, or plan includes coverage for medicines to classify medically necessary formula and enteral nutrition products as medicine and to include coverage for medically necessary formula and enteral nutrition products for covered individuals requiring treatment for an inherited metabolic disorder. Such coverage is required to be provided on the same terms and subject to the same conditions imposed on other medicines covered under the policy, contract, or plan. The measure provides that the required coverage includes any medical equipment, supplies, and services that are required to administer the covered formula or enteral nutrition products. These requirements apply only to formula and enteral nutrition products that are furnished pursuant to the prescription or order of a physician or other health care professional qualified to make such prescription or order for the management of an inherited metabolic disorder and are used under medical supervision. This bill incorporates SB 654 and is identical to HB 840.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0215) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB605ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB605ES1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from SCC (SB605) (committee substitute) — source
5. Impact statement from SCC (SB605S1) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Labor and Commerce (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ryan T. McDougle — primary (person)
• Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
• John S. Edwards — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104766D introduction
• 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2020-01-20 Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-20 Incorporates SB654 (Boysko)
• 2020-01-20 Committee substitute printed 20106265D-S1 substitution
• 2020-01-20 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-01-22 Impact statement from SCC (SB605)
• 2020-01-28 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-28 Impact statement from SCC (SB605S1)
• 2020-01-29 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-30 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-01-30 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-01-30 Committee substitute agreed to 20106265D-S1
• 2020-01-30 Reading of amendment waived
• 2020-01-30 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2020-01-30 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB605ES1
• 2020-01-30 Printed as engrossed 20106265D-ES1
• 2020-01-31 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-04 Impact statement from SCC (SB605ES1)
• 2020-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-13 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2020-02-18 Reported from Labor and Commerce (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-20 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-21 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-21 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-26 Enrolled
• 2020-02-26 Impact statement from SCC (SB605ER)
• 2020-02-27 Signed by President
• 2020-02-27 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-04 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 4, 2020
• 2020-03-04 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 11, 2020
• 2020-03-10 Approved by Governor-Chapter 215 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b5a53344-43e7-4df0-8bb8-b9342df6e61d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).