republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-718.md

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Bill	Health insurance; interhospital transfer for newborn or mother.	Health insurance; access for a mother to samefacility as her newborn. Requires health insurers to providecoverage for the birth mother of a newborn infant who is currentlyadmitted to a facility for delivery-related services and whose newborninfant is receiving services at a different facility to receive suchdelivery-related services, if available, at the facility where thenewborn infant is receiving services. The bill provides that suchcoverage (i) shall not require any prior authorization determination, regardless of whether the services are provided on an in-networkor out-of-network basis; (ii) is provided without regard to whetherthe health care provider furnishing the services is a participatinghealth care provider with respect to such services; (iii) for out-of-networkservices, shall not impose any administrative requirement or limitationon coverage that is more restrictive than the requirements or limitationsthat apply to such services provided in-network; and (iv) for out-of-networkservices, not require any copayment amounts or coinsurance rates,or apply any deductible except to the extent such amounts, rates,or deductibles would apply to in-network services. The bill providesthat if the services are provided out-of-network, any balance paymentshall be settled in the same manner as balance payments for emergencyservices.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 718	Virginia SB 718 (2020)	bill		enacted	Jennifer L. McClellan	4	32	9	2020-01-07	2020-04-09	openstates	ocd-bill/32427b47-0d37-41f4-8003-eb734b507306	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB718	d099edc7d8fef6db8aafddec4b064efd8e35ab41135ef1bb40f1f5d0b19dd1eb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 718 (2020) — Health insurance; interhospital transfer for newborn or mother.

Health insurance; access for a mother to samefacility as her newborn. Requires health insurers to providecoverage for the birth mother of a newborn infant who is currentlyadmitted to a facility for delivery-related services and whose newborninfant is receiving services at a different facility to receive suchdelivery-related services, if available, at the facility where thenewborn infant is receiving services. The bill provides that suchcoverage (i) shall not require any prior authorization determination, regardless of whether the services are provided on an in-networkor out-of-network basis; (ii) is provided without regard to whetherthe health care provider furnishing the services is a participatinghealth care provider with respect to such services; (iii) for out-of-networkservices, shall not impose any administrative requirement or limitationon coverage that is more restrictive than the requirements or limitationsthat apply to such services provided in-network; and (iv) for out-of-networkservices, not require any copayment amounts or coinsurance rates,or apply any deductible except to the extent such amounts, rates,or deductibles would apply to in-network services. The bill providesthat if the services are provided out-of-network, any balance paymentshall be settled in the same manner as balance payments for emergencyservices.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0940) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB718ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB718S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from SCC (SB718) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jennifer L. McClellan — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103726D introduction
• 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2020-01-27 Impact statement from SCC (SB718)
• 2020-02-09 Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-09 Committee substitute printed 20108037D-S1 substitution
• 2020-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-11 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-11 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-02-11 Committee substitute agreed to 20108037D-S1
• 2020-02-11 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB718S1
• 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
• 2020-02-14 Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2020-02-18 Impact statement from SCC (SB718S1)
• 2020-02-18 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-20 Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-24 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-25 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-25 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-25 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-02 Enrolled
• 2020-03-02 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-03 Impact statement from SCC (SB718ER)
• 2020-03-03 Signed by President
• 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 940 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/32427b47-0d37-41f4-8003-eb734b507306. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).