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| Bill | Telemedicine; coverage of telehealth services by an insurer, etc. | Telemedicine. Clarifies that nothing shallpreclude coverage of telehealth services by an insurer proposing to issue individual or group accident and sickness insurance policiesproviding hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverageon an expense-incurred basis; a corporation providing individualor group accident and sickness subscription contracts; or a healthmaintenance organization providing a health care plan for healthcare services. The bill requires the Board of Medical AssistanceServices to amend the state plan for medical assistance to providefor payment of medical assistance for remote patient monitoring servicesprovided via telemedicine for certain high-risk patients, and providesfor the establishment of a practitioner-patient relationship viatelemedicine for the prescribing of Schedule II through VI controlledsubstances. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2021 | HB 1987 | Virginia HB 1987 (2021) |
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6 | 61 | 14 | 2021-01-11 | 2021-03-24 | openstates | ocd-bill/cb42b667-3585-4ae9-a148-ca0833eefdb0 | https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1987 | 83aa526036cc930210b62d654d77f866248c4792d37f09b1396a6bfb7431aeab | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Virginia HB 1987 (2021) — Telemedicine; coverage of telehealth services by an insurer, etc.
Telemedicine. Clarifies that nothing shallpreclude coverage of telehealth services by an insurer proposing to issue individual or group accident and sickness insurance policiesproviding hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverageon an expense-incurred basis; a corporation providing individualor group accident and sickness subscription contracts; or a healthmaintenance organization providing a health care plan for healthcare services. The bill requires the Board of Medical AssistanceServices to amend the state plan for medical assistance to providefor payment of medical assistance for remote patient monitoring servicesprovided via telemedicine for certain high-risk patients, and providesfor the establishment of a practitioner-patient relationship viatelemedicine for the prescribing of Schedule II through VI controlledsubstances.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0301 (committee substitute) — source
- Committee substitute printed 21103569D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
- Committee substitute printed 21200364D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
- HB1987EH1 (committee substitute) — source
- HB1987ER (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102502D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 97-N) — 0–96 (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Senate insisted on substitute (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) — 7–1 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Agreed To (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N 1-A) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — 32–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Dawn M. Adams — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Candi Mundon King — cosponsor (person)
- Carrie E. Coyner — cosponsor (person)
- Charniele L. Herring — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher T. Head — cosponsor (person)
- Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
- Danica A. Roem — cosponsor (person)
- Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
- David W. Marsden — cosponsor (person)
- Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn R. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy S. McPike — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
- Lee J. Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)
- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
- Martha M. Mugler — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Webert — cosponsor (person)
- Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Robert B. Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Roxann L. Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
- Scott Wyatt — cosponsor (person)
- Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)
- Terry G. Kilgore — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102502D
introduction - 2021-01-11 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
referral-committee - 2021-01-15 Assigned HWI sub: Health
referral-committee - 2021-01-19 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N)
- 2021-01-19 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 2021-01-21 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2021-01-25 Impact statement from DPB (HB1987)
- 2021-01-26 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2021-01-26 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2021-01-26 Committee substitute printed 21103569D-H1
substitution - 2021-01-26 Referred to Committee on Appropriations
referral-committee - 2021-01-26 Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources
referral-committee - 2021-01-28 Impact statement from DPB (HB1987H1)
- 2021-01-29 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- 2021-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
- 2021-01-29 Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2021-02-01 Read first time
reading-1 - 2021-02-02 Read second time
reading-2 - 2021-02-02 Committee substitute agreed to 21103569D-H1
- 2021-02-02 Committee amendment agreed to
- 2021-02-02 Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendment HB1987EH1
- 2021-02-02 Printed as engrossed 21103569D-EH1
- 2021-02-03 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N 1-A)
passage, reading-3 - 2021-02-03 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 2021-02-03 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 2021-02-03 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
passage - 2021-02-03 VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N)
- 2021-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2021-02-04 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2021-02-05 Impact statement from DPB (HB1987EH1)
- 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 2021-02-12 Assigned Education sub: Health
referral-committee - 2021-02-18 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2021-02-18 Committee substitute printed 21200364D-S1
substitution - 2021-02-18 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2021-02-19 Impact statement from DPB (HB1987S1)
- 2021-02-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
- 2021-02-22 Read third time
reading-3 - 2021-02-22 Reading of substitute waived
- 2021-02-22 Committee substitute agreed to 21200364D-S1
- 2021-02-22 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1987S1
- 2021-02-22 Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N)
passage - 2021-02-23 Placed on Calendar
- 2021-02-23 Senate substitute rejected by House 21200364D-S1 (0-Y 97-N)
- 2021-02-23 VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 97-N)
- 2021-02-24 Senate insisted on substitute (39-Y 0-N)
- 2021-02-24 Senate requested conference committee
- 2021-02-25 House acceded to request
- 2021-02-25 Conferees appointed by House
- 2021-02-25 Conferees appointed by Senate
- 2021-02-26 Amended by conference committee
- 2021-02-27 Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 2021-02-27 Conference report agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N)
- 2021-02-27 VOTE: Agreed To (99-Y 0-N)
- 2021-03-09 Enrolled
- 2021-03-09 Signed by President
- 2021-03-10 Impact statement from DPB (HB1987ER)
- 2021-03-11 Signed by Speaker
- 2021-03-15 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 15, 2021
- 2021-03-15 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- 2021-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 301 (effective 7/1/21)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cb42b667-3585-4ae9-a148-ca0833eefdb0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).