republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/hb-481.md

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Bill	Hospitals; price transparency.	Hospitals; price transparency. Requires every hospital to make information about standard charges for items and services provided by the hospital available on the hospital's website by July 1, 2023. The bill directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to develop recommendations for implementation of the bill and to report those recommendations to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 1, 2022.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	HB 481	Virginia HB 481 (2022)	bill		enacted	Dan I. Helmer	5	39	7	2022-01-11	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/a8273952-ced5-4d43-93b8-14780d75850c	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB481	7077cf23d75b8407365c1b7a00df36050be1e92724c46bd7c4f8530c586715c4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 481 (2022) — Hospitals; price transparency.

Hospitals; price transparency. Requires every hospital to make information about standard charges for items and services provided by the hospital available on the hospital's website by July 1, 2023. The bill directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to develop recommendations for implementation of the bill and to report those recommendations to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 1, 2022.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0297 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 22106360D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee substitute printed 22107208D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB481ER (committee substitute) — source
5. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101862D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (98-Y 1-N) — 97–1 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (19-Y 2-N) — 19–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dan I. Helmer — primary (person)
• C. Matthew Fariss — cosponsor (person)
• Clinton L. Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
• Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Bulova — cosponsor (person)
• Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
• Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
• John J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
• Michael J. Webert — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Sally L. Hudson — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
• Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy V. Anderson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101862D introduction
• 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2022-01-19 Impact statement from DPB (HB481)
• 2022-01-21 Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3 referral-committee
• 2022-02-08 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-02-08 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-09 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-02-10 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (19-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-10 Committee substitute printed 22106360D-H1 substitution
• 2022-02-11 Impact statement from DPB (HB481H1)
• 2022-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-14 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-02-14 Committee substitute agreed to 22106360D-H1
• 2022-02-14 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB481H1
• 2022-02-15 Read third time and passed House (98-Y 1-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-15 VOTE: Passage (98-Y 1-N)
• 2022-02-16 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2022-02-16 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2022-02-21 Assigned Education sub: Health referral-committee
• 2022-03-01 Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-03-03 Committee substitute printed 22107208D-S1 substitution
• 2022-03-03 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-03-04 Passed by for the day
• 2022-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (HB481S1)
• 2022-03-07 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-08 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-08 Reading of substitute waived
• 2022-03-08 Committee substitute agreed to 22107208D-S1
• 2022-03-08 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB481S1
• 2022-03-08 Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-09 Senate substitute agreed to by House 22107208D-S1 (97-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-09 VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-11 Enrolled
• 2022-03-11 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-11 Signed by President
• 2022-03-14 Impact statement from DPB (HB481ER)
• 2022-03-22 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
• 2022-03-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 297 (effective 7/1/23) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a8273952-ced5-4d43-93b8-14780d75850c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).