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| Bill | Essential health benefits; abortion coverage. | Essential health benefits; abortion coverage.Removes the prohibition on the provision of coverage for abortionsin any qualified health insurance plan that is sold or offered forsale through a health benefits exchange established or operatingin Virginia. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2021 | SB 1276 | Virginia SB 1276 (2021) |
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Virginia SB 1276 (2021) — Essential health benefits; abortion coverage.
Essential health benefits; abortion coverage.Removes the prohibition on the provision of coverage for abortionsin any qualified health insurance plan that is sold or offered forsale through a health benefits exchange established or operatingin Virginia.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0102 (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101217D (committee substitute) — source
- SB1276ER (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce — 0–0 (fail) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 17-N) — 20–17 (pass) · upper
- Rereferred from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (54-Y 45-N) — 53–45 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Labor and Commerce (13-Y 9-N) — 13–9 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Labor (12-Y 2-N) — 12–2 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Jennifer L. McClellan — primary (person)
- Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Ghazala F. Hashmi — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
- Mamie E. Locke — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101217D
introduction - 2021-01-12 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2021-01-14 Rereferred from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
- 2021-01-14 Rereferred to Commerce and Labor
referral-committee - 2021-01-18 Impact statement from SCC (SB1276)
- 2021-01-18 Reported from Commerce and Labor (12-Y 2-N)
committee-passage - 2021-01-20 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 2021-01-21 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2021-01-22 Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 17-N)
passage, reading-3 - 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
- 2021-02-11 Reported from Labor and Commerce (13-Y 9-N)
committee-passage - 2021-02-15 Read second time
reading-2 - 2021-02-16 Read third time
reading-3 - 2021-02-16 Passed House (54-Y 45-N)
passage - 2021-02-16 VOTE: Passage (54-Y 45-N)
- 2021-02-19 Enrolled
- 2021-02-21 Impact statement from SCC (SB1276ER)
- 2021-02-22 Signed by President
- 2021-02-22 Signed by Speaker
- 2021-02-24 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 24, 2021
- 2021-02-24 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- 2021-03-12 Approved by Governor-Chapter 102 (effective 7/1/21)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fa0b3ec4-df46-4245-a36f-874fa531264c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).