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| Bill | Health insurers; duty of in-network providers to submit claims, prohibited practices. | Duty of in-network providers to submit claims to health insurers; Virginia Consumer Protection Act. Provides that a knowing violation of the existing requirement for an in-network provider that provides health care services to a covered patient to submit its claim to the health insurer for the health care services in accordance with the terms of the applicable provider agreement or as permitted under applicable federal or state laws is a prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2022 | SB 681 | Virginia SB 681 (2022) |
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Virginia SB 681 (2022) — Health insurers; duty of in-network providers to submit claims, prohibited practices.
Duty of in-network providers to submit claims to health insurers; Virginia Consumer Protection Act. Provides that a knowing violation of the existing requirement for an in-network provider that provides health care services to a covered patient to submit its claim to the health insurer for the health care services in accordance with the terms of the applicable provider agreement or as permitted under applicable federal or state laws is a prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0351 (committee substitute) — source
- Committee substitute printed 22105661D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
- Presented and ordered printed 22104364D (committee substitute) — source
- SB681ER (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — 10–0 (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Energy (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Mark D. Obenshain — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-01-20 Presented and ordered printed 22104364D
introduction - 2022-01-20 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
referral-committee - 2022-02-03 Impact statement from DPB (SB681)
- 2022-02-07 Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-07 Committee substitute printed 22105661D-S1
substitution - 2022-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-09 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-02-09 Reading of substitute waived
- 2022-02-09 Committee substitute agreed to 22105661D-S1
- 2022-02-09 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB681S1
- 2022-02-10 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2022-02-10 Impact statement from DPB (SB681S1)
- 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 - 2022-02-23 Assigned sub: Subcommittee #2
referral-committee - 2022-02-23 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-02-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-01 Reported from Commerce and Energy (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-03-03 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-03-04 Read third time
reading-3 - 2022-03-04 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
passage - 2022-03-04 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-09 Enrolled
- 2022-03-09 Signed by Speaker
- 2022-03-10 Impact statement from DPB (SB681ER)
- 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 351 (effective 7/1/22)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e3faa953-a4fc-4e21-9ad3-bcc3be0d508c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).