republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-663.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Telemedicine services; state plan for medical assistance services, provision for payment."
description: "State plan for medical assistance services; provision for payment of telemedicine services facilitated by emergency medical services. Directs the Board of Health to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for the payment of the originating site fee to emergency medical services agencies for facilitating synchronous telehealth visits with a distant site provider delivered to a Medicaid member. The bill defines \"originating site\" as any location where the patient is located, including any medical care facility or office of a health care provider, the home of the patient, the patient's place of employment, or any public or private primary or secondary school or postsecondary institution of higher education at which the person to whom telemedicine services are provided is located."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 663"
citation: "Virginia SB 663 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William M. Stanley, Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2022-01-19"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05e9c7c8-524e-467c-85cb-d3b22c0a6594"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB663"
source_hash: "15e25edc49cd552cf3efed454f2c3f557f86e253e65eac3f40c7f363ff59bf6b"
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 663 (2022) — Telemedicine services; state plan for medical assistance services, provision for payment.

State plan for medical assistance services; provision for payment of telemedicine services facilitated by emergency medical services. Directs the Board of Health to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for the payment of the originating site fee to emergency medical services agencies for facilitating synchronous telehealth visits with a distant site provider delivered to a Medicaid member. The bill defines "originating site" as any location where the patient is located, including any medical care facility or office of a health care provider, the home of the patient, the patient's place of employment, or any public or private primary or secondary school or postsecondary institution of higher education at which the person to whom telemedicine services are provided is located.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0384** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0384)
2. **Committee substitute printed 22107225D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB663H1)
3. **Presented and ordered printed 22104431D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB663)
4. **SB663ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB663ER)

## Votes

- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Tabled in Appropriations (21-Y 1-N) — **21–1** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N) — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- William M. Stanley, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-19** Presented and ordered printed 22104431D `introduction`
- **2022-01-19** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-02** Impact statement from DPB (SB663)
- **2022-02-03** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-03** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-09** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-10** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-10** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-03-01** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-01** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-01** Committee substitute printed 22107225D-H1 `substitution`
- **2022-03-02** Impact statement from DPB (SB663H1)
- **2022-03-03** Motion to refer to committee agreed to
- **2022-03-03** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** Tabled in Appropriations (21-Y 1-N)
- **2022-03-07** Reconsidered by Appropriations
- **2022-03-07** Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-08** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-09** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-09** Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions substitute rejected 22107225D-H1
- **2022-03-09** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-09** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-11** Enrolled
- **2022-03-11** Signed by President
- **2022-03-11** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-14** Impact statement from DPB (SB663ER)
- **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 384 (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/05e9c7c8-524e-467c-85cb-d3b22c0a6594`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).