republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-405.md

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Bill	Health insurance; coverage for prosthetic devices and components.	Health insurance; coverage for prosthetic devices.Requires health insurers, corporations providing health care coveragesubscription contracts, and health maintenance organizations to providecoverage for prosthetic devices, including myoelectric, biomechanical, or microprocessor-controlled prosthetic devices that have a Medicarecode. The measure repeals the existing requirement that coveragefor prosthetic devices be offered and made available. The measureapplies to policies, contracts, and plans delivered, issued for delivery,or renewed on or after January 1, 2023, or at any time thereafterwhen any term of the policy, contract, or plan is changed or anypremium adjustment is made. This bill is a recommendation of the HealthInsurance Reform Commission.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 405	Virginia SB 405 (2022)	bill		enacted	George L. Barker	5	53	12	2022-01-11	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/9d485e56-91c2-4bc9-80ce-3df59294c45c	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB405	e8eda6c1fd7780395c60ed0cd1a201b0189f4dc445ff392aef02b0305e1a8a9d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 405 (2022) — Health insurance; coverage for prosthetic devices and components.

Health insurance; coverage for prosthetic devices.Requires health insurers, corporations providing health care coveragesubscription contracts, and health maintenance organizations to providecoverage for prosthetic devices, including myoelectric, biomechanical, or microprocessor-controlled prosthetic devices that have a Medicarecode. The measure repeals the existing requirement that coveragefor prosthetic devices be offered and made available. The measureapplies to policies, contracts, and plans delivered, issued for delivery,or renewed on or after January 1, 2023, or at any time thereafterwhen any term of the policy, contract, or plan is changed or anypremium adjustment is made. This bill is a recommendation of the HealthInsurance Reform Commission.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0599 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 22107042D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102486D (committee substitute) — source
4. Printed as engrossed 22102486D-E (committee substitute) — source
5. SB405ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N) — 0–39 (fail) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Commerce and Energy with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (95-Y 3-N) — 94–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• George L. Barker — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102486D introduction
• 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2022-01-24 Impact statement from DPB (SB405)
• 2022-01-31 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-01-31 Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments (14-Y 0-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2022-01-31 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-02-07 Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-02-08 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-02-08 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (16-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-09 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-10 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-02-10 Reading of amendments waived
• 2022-02-10 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2022-02-10 Reading of amendment waived
• 2022-02-10 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2022-02-10 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB405E
• 2022-02-10 Printed as engrossed 22102486D-E
• 2022-02-11 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-17 Impact statement from DPB (SB405E)
• 2022-02-22 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-02-22 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-22 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy referral-committee
• 2022-02-24 Reported from Commerce and Energy with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-24 Committee substitute printed 22107042D-H1 substitution
• 2022-02-24 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-02-25 Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources referral-committee
• 2022-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (SB405H1)
• 2022-03-01 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-02 Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-03-04 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-03-07 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-07 Committee substitute agreed to 22107042D-H1
• 2022-03-07 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB405H1
• 2022-03-07 Passed House with substitute (95-Y 3-N) passage
• 2022-03-07 VOTE: Passage (95-Y 3-N)
• 2022-03-08 Passed by temporarily
• 2022-03-08 House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N)
• 2022-03-09 House insisted on substitute
• 2022-03-09 House requested conference committee
• 2022-03-10 Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-10 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2022-03-10 Conferees appointed by House
• 2022-03-11 Amended by conference committee
• 2022-03-11 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-11 Conference report agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-11 VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-21 Enrolled
• 2022-03-21 Impact statement from DPB (SB405ER)
• 2022-03-21 Signed by President
• 2022-03-22 Signed by Speaker
• 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 599 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9d485e56-91c2-4bc9-80ce-3df59294c45c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).