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Bill	Paid family and medical leave; SCC's Bureau of Insurance to review and make recommendations, report.	Bureau of Insurance; paid family leave; report. Directs the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance (the Bureau) to review and make recommendations, including any necessary statutory and regulatory changes, to authorize the State Corporation Commission to approve the sale of individual and group paid family leave plans in Virginia. The bill requires the Bureau to also identify options and make recommendations for encouraging or incentivizing employers to voluntarily offer up to 12 weeks of paid family leave. The bill requires the Bureau to convene a stakeholder group to participate in the process, which is required to include representatives from the insurance industry and the business community, advocates for paid family leave, and other interested parties. The bill requires the Bureau to report its findings and recommendations to the Senate Committees on Commerce and Labor and Finance and Appropriations and the House Committees on Labor and Commerce and Appropriations by November 30, 2021.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2021	SB 1219	Virginia SB 1219 (2021)	bill		enacted	Barbara A. Favola	5	36	7	2021-01-11	2021-03-31	openstates	ocd-bill/820f2ac3-a76a-4bc8-b08b-a38a28878125	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1219	244fbb0d8c9146d8ca5ac64d8a412d4a3ae4b847c30be281b35692ae123a8c5f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1219 (2021) — Paid family and medical leave; SCC's Bureau of Insurance to review and make recommendations, report.

Bureau of Insurance; paid family leave; report. Directs the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance (the Bureau) to review and make recommendations, including any necessary statutory and regulatory changes, to authorize the State Corporation Commission to approve the sale of individual and group paid family leave plans in Virginia. The bill requires the Bureau to also identify options and make recommendations for encouraging or incentivizing employers to voluntarily offer up to 12 weeks of paid family leave. The bill requires the Bureau to convene a stakeholder group to participate in the process, which is required to include representatives from the insurance industry and the business community, advocates for paid family leave, and other interested parties. The bill requires the Bureau to report its findings and recommendations to the Senate Committees on Commerce and Labor and Finance and Appropriations and the House Committees on Labor and Commerce and Appropriations by November 30, 2021.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0512 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 21200399D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101271D (committee substitute) — source
4. Printed as engrossed 21101271D-E (committee substitute) — source
5. SB1219ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 13-N) — 24–13 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (13-Y 9-N) — 13–9 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (53-Y 44-N) — 52–44 (pass) · lower
• House substitute agreed to by Senate (22-Y 17-N) — 22–17 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (12-Y 3-N) — 12–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)
• Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101271D introduction
• 2021-01-11 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2021-01-18 Impact statement from SCC (SB1219)
• 2021-01-18 Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (12-Y 3-N) committee-passage
• 2021-01-20 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2021-01-21 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-01-21 Reading of amendment waived
• 2021-01-21 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2021-01-21 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1219E
• 2021-01-21 Printed as engrossed 21101271D-E
• 2021-01-22 Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 13-N) passage, reading-3
• 2021-01-22 Impact statement from SCC (SB1219E)
• 2021-02-02 Placed on Calendar
• 2021-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2021-02-02 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2021-02-08 Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce
• 2021-02-10 Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2021-02-18 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-02-18 Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (13-Y 9-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-18 Committee substitute printed 21200399D-H1 substitution
• 2021-02-22 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-02-23 Read third time reading-3
• 2021-02-23 Committee substitute agreed to 21200399D-H1
• 2021-02-23 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1219H1
• 2021-02-23 Passed House with substitute (53-Y 44-N) passage
• 2021-02-23 VOTE: Passage (53-Y 44-N)
• 2021-02-24 House substitute agreed to by Senate (22-Y 17-N)
• 2021-02-24 Title replaced 21200399D-H1
• 2021-02-25 Impact statement from SCC (SB1219H1)
• 2021-02-26 Enrolled
• 2021-02-26 Impact statement from SCC (SB1219ER)
• 2021-02-26 Signed by Speaker
• 2021-02-27 Signed by President
• 2021-03-01 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
• 2021-03-01 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
• 2021-03-31 Approved by Governor-Chapter 512 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/820f2ac3-a76a-4bc8-b08b-a38a28878125. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).