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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.

  1. CHAP0102 (committee substitute) — source
  2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101217D (committee substitute) — source
  3. SB1276ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce — 00 (fail) · lower
  • Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 17-N) — 2017 (pass) · upper
  • Rereferred from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) — 140 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: Passage (54-Y 45-N) — 5345 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Labor and Commerce (13-Y 9-N) — 139 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Commerce and Labor (12-Y 2-N) — 122 (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).