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type: "Bill"
title: "Health insurance; credentialing, health care providers."
description: "Health insurance; credentialing; health care providers. Provides that provisions requiring health insurers and other carriers to establish reasonable protocols and procedures for reimbursing a health professional for services provided while such professional's credentialing application is pending also apply to certain health maintenance organizations and to corporations operating dental or optometric plans."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1829"
citation: "Virginia HB 1829 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher T. Head"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2021-01-06"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b74900a-0983-46cb-8ab0-3ba1cc26a147"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1829"
source_hash: "4026a360c3d343d1a9ba0342ef2a4f0affcb5968d508abb46c446c68d89b4546"
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 HB 1829 (2021) — Health insurance; credentialing, health care providers.
Health insurance; credentialing; health care providers. Provides that provisions requiring health insurers and other carriers to establish reasonable protocols and procedures for reimbursing a health professional for services provided while such professional's credentialing application is pending also apply to certain health maintenance organizations and to corporations operating dental or optometric plans.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0161** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0161)
2. **HB1829ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1829ER)
3. **HB1829H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1829H1)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101075D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1829)
## Votes
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Labor and Commerce (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 (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Christopher T. Head — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101075D `introduction`
- **2021-01-06** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-14** Impact statement from SCC (HB1829)
- **2021-01-14** Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-15** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-01-18** Floor substitute printed 21103204D-H1 (Head)
- **2021-01-18** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-01-18** Substitute by Delegate Head agreed to 21103204D-H1
- **2021-01-18** Engrossed by House - floor substitute HB1829H1
- **2021-01-19** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-19** VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-20** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-01-20** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28** Impact statement from SCC (HB1829H1)
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-15** Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-18** Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-18** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-18** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-22** Enrolled
- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
- **2021-02-23** Impact statement from SCC (HB1829ER)
- **2021-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-25** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
- **2021-02-25** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 161 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b74900a-0983-46cb-8ab0-3ba1cc26a147`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).