republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-434.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health insurance; coverage for mental health and substance use disorders, report."
description: "Health insurance; coverage for mental healthand substance use disorders; report. Requires the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance to collect certain comparative analyses from health carriers related to mental health parity and to includesuch analyses in a report that (i) describes the methodology theBureau used to verify compliance with the federal Mental Health Parityand Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) and any federal regulationsor guidance relating to MHPAEA; (ii) identifies and summarizes marketconduct examinations conducted or completed during the preceding12-month period regarding compliance with parity in mental healthand substance use disorder benefits under state and federal law;and (iii) details any educational or corrective actions the Bureauhas taken to ensure plan compliance with MHPAEA."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 434"
citation: "Virginia SB 434 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["George L. Barker"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a43e6691-4c37-4ccc-aaf8-91cf3a3a5eb4"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB434"
source_hash: "5492c50b82f2c8fd354e8856649722ee0aa9955ebdd9c039bd1299da1fd76495"
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 SB 434 (2022) — Health insurance; coverage for mental health and substance use disorders, report.

Health insurance; coverage for mental healthand substance use disorders; report. Requires the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance to collect certain comparative analyses from health carriers related to mental health parity and to includesuch analyses in a report that (i) describes the methodology theBureau used to verify compliance with the federal Mental Health Parityand Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) and any federal regulationsor guidance relating to MHPAEA; (ii) identifies and summarizes marketconduct examinations conducted or completed during the preceding12-month period regarding compliance with parity in mental healthand substance use disorder benefits under state and federal law;and (iii) details any educational or corrective actions the Bureauhas taken to ensure plan compliance with MHPAEA.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0544** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0544)
2. **Committee substitute printed 22105029D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB434S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101750D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB434)
4. **SB434ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB434ER)

## Votes

- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Energy (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## 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 22101750D `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-22** Impact statement from SCC (SB434)
- **2022-01-24** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-01-24** Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-24** Committee substitute printed 22105029D-S1 `substitution`
- **2022-01-24** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-31** Impact statement from SCC (SB434S1)
- **2022-02-02** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-04** Reading of substitute waived
- **2022-02-04** Committee substitute agreed to 22105029D-S1
- **2022-02-04** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB434S1
- **2022-02-07** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **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`
- **2022-03-03** Reported from Commerce and Energy (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-07** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-08** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-08** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-10** Enrolled
- **2022-03-10** Impact statement from SCC (SB434ER)
- **2022-03-10** Signed by President
- **2022-03-10** 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 544 (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/a43e6691-4c37-4ccc-aaf8-91cf3a3a5eb4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).