republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-525.md

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Bill	Health carriers; licensed athletic trainers.	Health carriers; licensed athletic trainers. Requires health insurers and health service plan providers whose policies or contracts cover services that may be legally performed by a licensed athletic trainer to provide equal coverage for such services when rendered by a licensed athletic trainer when such services are performed in an office setting. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Health Insurance Reform Commission. This bill is identical to HB 45.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 525	Virginia SB 525 (2022)	bill		enacted	George L. Barker	4	30	6	2022-01-12	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/29f0c509-15f0-4355-9c1e-3c72210e540f	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB525	2eac2446f08d204c118cc164263d085a21f5be324b67ecc73728dc84bacaf55c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 525 (2022) — Health carriers; licensed athletic trainers.

Health carriers; licensed athletic trainers. Requires health insurers and health service plan providers whose policies or contracts cover services that may be legally performed by a licensed athletic trainer to provide equal coverage for such services when rendered by a licensed athletic trainer when such services are performed in an office setting. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Health Insurance Reform Commission. This bill is identical to HB 45.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0441 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102490D (committee substitute) — source
3. Printed as engrossed 22102490D-E (committee substitute) — source
4. SB525ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Commerce and Energy (19-Y 3-N) — 19–3 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments (14-Y 1-N) — 14–1 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) — 38–1 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (92-Y 7-N) — 91–7 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• George L. Barker — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102490D introduction
• 2022-01-12 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2022-01-31 Impact statement from DPB (SB525)
• 2022-01-31 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-01-31 Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments (14-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-02 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-02-03 Reading of amendments waived
• 2022-02-03 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2022-02-03 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB525E
• 2022-02-03 Printed as engrossed 22102490D-E
• 2022-02-04 Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-07 Impact statement from DPB (SB525E)
• 2022-02-21 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-02-21 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-21 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy referral-committee
• 2022-02-23 Assigned sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2022-02-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-01 Reported from Commerce and Energy (19-Y 3-N) committee-passage
• 2022-03-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-03-04 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-04 Passed House (92-Y 7-N) passage
• 2022-03-04 VOTE: Passage (92-Y 7-N)
• 2022-03-09 Enrolled
• 2022-03-09 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-10 Impact statement from DPB (SB525ER)
• 2022-03-10 Signed by President
• 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 441 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/29f0c509-15f0-4355-9c1e-3c72210e540f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).