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type: "Bill"
title: "Medicaid; program information, accessibility on every state agency or local government website."
description: "Medicaid; program information; accessibility. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to require every person that &nbsp;provides program information to ensure that all program information, defined in the bill, be made available in a manner that is accessible to (i) individuals with limited English proficiency through the provision of language access services, including oral interpretation and written translations, and (ii) individuals with disabilities through the provision of auxiliary aids services, when doing so is a reasonable step to providing meaningful access to health care coverage. The bill provides that language access services and auxiliary aids services shall be provided free of charge to such individuals and that information regarding how to receive the language access services and auxiliary aids services shall be included with program information documents on a website maintained by the Department of Medical Assistance Services and on the website of every agency of the Commonwealth and person with whom the Department has entered into a contract that disseminates program information. The bill also requires every person that makes program information available to use an objective readability measure approved by the Department to test the readability of its program information documents and requires such persons to make program information documents available to the Department for review upon request. Under current law, use of a specific readability formula is required and a minimum total readability score is prescribed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 987"
citation: "Virginia HB 987 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kathy K.L. Tran"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 52
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0ff1c9c-969e-4104-8c3b-3b574d1235f5"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB987"
source_hash: "98a14ae13bd3e982c80197bd241f745656d584815f655a212afe004b4df1e40b"
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 987 (2022) — Medicaid; program information, accessibility on every state agency or local government website.
Medicaid; program information; accessibility. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to require every person that &nbsp;provides program information to ensure that all program information, defined in the bill, be made available in a manner that is accessible to (i) individuals with limited English proficiency through the provision of language access services, including oral interpretation and written translations, and (ii) individuals with disabilities through the provision of auxiliary aids services, when doing so is a reasonable step to providing meaningful access to health care coverage. The bill provides that language access services and auxiliary aids services shall be provided free of charge to such individuals and that information regarding how to receive the language access services and auxiliary aids services shall be included with program information documents on a website maintained by the Department of Medical Assistance Services and on the website of every agency of the Commonwealth and person with whom the Department has entered into a contract that disseminates program information. The bill also requires every person that makes program information available to use an objective readability measure approved by the Department to test the readability of its program information documents and requires such persons to make program information documents available to the Department for review upon request. Under current law, use of a specific readability formula is required and a minimum total readability score is prescribed.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0775** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0775)
2. **HB987ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB987ER)
3. **HB987ER2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB987ER2)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103932D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB987)
5. **Printed as engrossed 22103932D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB987E)
## Votes
- Reported from Education and Health with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 0-N) — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Kathy K.L. Tran — primary (person)
- Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103932D `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-21** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26** Impact statement from DPB (HB987)
- **2022-02-01** Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-01** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- **2022-02-08** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-08** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-08** 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** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-14** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-14** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2022-02-14** Engrossed by House as amended HB987E
- **2022-02-14** Printed as engrossed 22103932D-E
- **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)
- **2022-02-16** Impact statement from DPB (HB987E)
- **2022-02-16** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-16** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-25** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01** Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-03-03** Reported from Education and Health with amendments (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-04** Passed by for the day
- **2022-03-07** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-08** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** Reading of amendments waived
- **2022-03-08** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2022-03-08** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2022-03-08** Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-09** Senate amendments agreed to by House (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 (HB987ER)
- **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** Governor's recommendation received by House
- **2022-04-27** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-04-27** House concurred in Governor's recommendation BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- **2022-04-27** VOTE: Adoption (100-Y 0-N)
- **2022-04-27** Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-04-27** Governor's recommendation adopted
- **2022-04-27** Reenrolled
- **2022-04-27** Reenrolled bill text (HB987ER2)
- **2022-04-27** Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- **2022-04-27** Signed by President as reenrolled
- **2022-04-27** Enacted, Chapter 775 (effective 7/1/22) `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f0ff1c9c-969e-4104-8c3b-3b574d1235f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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