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Bill

Health care; explanation of benefits, sensitive health care services.

Health care services; explanation of benefits. Requireshealth carriers and Medicaid managed care organizations to provide anexplanation of benefits to covered persons or recipients. The measure requiresthe State Corporation Commission to adopt regulations that establishalternative methods of delivery of the explanation of benefits that permit thereceipt of an explanation of benefits by an alternative method, provided thatsuch alternative method is in compliance with the provisions of federalregulations regarding the right to request privacy protection for protectedhealth information. The measure requires health carriers and Medicaid managedcare organizations to take all reasonable actions to ensure that their internalprocesses and systems prohibit the identification or description of sensitivehealth care services in their explanations of benefits. The measure requires ahealth carrier that requires a covered person to make a request forconfidential communications in writing in accordance with federal law to acceptthe form of the explanation of benefits approved by the Commission. The measurealso requires the Commission to define "sensitive health careservices." The measure will take effect 90 days after the Commission hasadopted the required regulations. The measure is a recommendation of the JointCommission on Health Care.

us/states/va

Virginia General Assembly

2020

SB 766

Virginia SB 766 (2020)

bill

enacted

George L. Barker

2020-01-08

2020-04-06

openstates

ocd-bill/59f7fa41-b098-41e5-8300-e27f415576f7

https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB766

15d32dcd57178ea9cabb4bc6807ebe95b1420936de06bf50daf00b525dce2906

2026-07-01

https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump

2026-07-06

reported

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us-va

Virginia SB 766 (2020) — Health care; explanation of benefits, sensitive health care services.

Version chain

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

Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0716) (committee substitute) — source
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB766ER) (committee substitute) — source
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB766S1 (committee substitute) — source
Impact statement from DPB (SB766H1) (committee substitute) — source
Impact statement from SCC (SB766) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
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
Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Timeline

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

2020-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104452D introduction
2020-01-08 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
2020-01-24 Impact statement from SCC (SB766)
2020-02-09 Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
2020-02-09 Committee substitute printed 20108039D-S1 substitution
2020-02-09 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
2020-02-10 Impact statement from DPB (SB766)
2020-02-10 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) committee-passage
2020-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-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 20108039D-S1
2020-02-11 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB766S1
2020-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2020-02-11 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
2020-02-18 Placed on Calendar
2020-02-18 Read first time reading-1
2020-02-18 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
2020-02-18 Impact statement from SCC (SB766S1)
2020-02-25 Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
2020-02-25 Committee substitute printed 20109098D-H1 substitution
2020-02-26 Impact statement from DPB (SB766H1)
2020-02-27 Read second time reading-2
2020-02-28 Read third time reading-3
2020-02-28 Committee substitute rejected 20109098D-H1
2020-02-28 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
2020-02-28 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
2020-03-05 Enrolled
2020-03-05 Impact statement from DPB (SB766ER)
2020-03-06 Signed by Speaker
2020-03-07 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
2020-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 716 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/59f7fa41-b098-41e5-8300-e27f415576f7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).

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