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type: "Bill"
title: "Health insurance; coverage for prosthetic devices and components."
description: "Health insurance; coverage for prosthetic devices.Requires health insurers, corporations providing health carecoverage subscription contracts, health maintenance organizations,and the Commonwealth's Medicaid program to provide coverage for prostheticdevices, including myoelectric, biomechanical, or microprocessor-controlledprosthetic devices that have a Medicare code. The provisions of thebill apply only in the large group markets. The bill repeals theexisting requirement that coverage for prosthetic devices be offeredand made available. The bill has a delayed effective date of January1, 2023."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 925"
citation: "Virginia HB 925 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Danica A. Roem"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 36
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b864069-8f78-4e63-bc83-6dbe87759272"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB925"
source_hash: "ea62ff18ebfb41e9e2aef1d1ea96830b5bbf0f928c96e50bdf70bbe2532854ad"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 925 (2022) — Health insurance; coverage for prosthetic devices and components.
Health insurance; coverage for prosthetic devices.Requires health insurers, corporations providing health carecoverage subscription contracts, health maintenance organizations,and the Commonwealth's Medicaid program to provide coverage for prostheticdevices, including myoelectric, biomechanical, or microprocessor-controlledprosthetic devices that have a Medicare code. The provisions of thebill apply only in the large group markets. The bill repeals theexisting requirement that coverage for prosthetic devices be offeredand made available. The bill has a delayed effective date of January1, 2023.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0598** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0598)
2. **Committee substitute printed 22105419D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB925H1)
3. **HB925EH1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB925EH1)
4. **HB925ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB925ER)
5. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101265D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB925)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N) — **100** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Energy with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Danica A. Roem — primary (person)
- Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
- James W. Morefield — cosponsor (person)
- Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)
- Wendy W. Gooditis — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101265D `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-25** Assigned sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-02** Impact statement from DPB (HB925)
- **2022-02-03** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-03** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- **2022-02-08** Reported from Commerce and Energy with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-08** Committee substitute printed 22105419D-H1 `substitution`
- **2022-02-08** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-09** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-09** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-09** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-09** Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-11** Impact statement from DPB (HB925H1)
- **2022-02-11** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-14** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-14** Committee substitute agreed to 22105419D-H1
- **2022-02-14** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2022-02-14** Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendments HB925EH1
- **2022-02-14** Printed as engrossed 22105419D-EH1
- **2022-02-15** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-15** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-15** Impact statement from DPB (HB925EH1)
- **2022-02-16** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-16** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-21** Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-23** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-24** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-28** Enrolled
- **2022-02-28** Impact statement from DPB (HB925ER)
- **2022-02-28** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-02-28** Signed by President
- **2022-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
- **2022-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 598 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b864069-8f78-4e63-bc83-6dbe87759272`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).