republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-1019.md

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Bill	Health insurance; locality to allow local employees to participate in its group insurance programs.	Health insurance for local employees. Permits any locality to allow participation in its group health insurance program by any non-benefitted employee, including members of governing bodies, if such non-benefitted employee or governing body member is not otherwise entitled to participate, provided that such non-benefitted employees reimburse the locality for the full cost of their participation. The bill provides that reimbursement may include forgoing all or a part of a local government salary.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 1019	Virginia HB 1019 (2024)	bill		enacted	Tony O. Wilt	4	27	6	2024-01-10	2024-04-05	openstates	ocd-bill/4713798d-45ea-439e-96be-b87486b03d2a	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1019	9aa1846a6ff0037561d20d70267eb1b1280ca0d3327c7f4cd83d9b974d8dd18d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1019 (2024) — Health insurance; locality to allow local employees to participate in its group insurance programs.

Health insurance for local employees. Permits any locality to allow participation in its group health insurance program by any non-benefitted employee, including members of governing bodies, if such non-benefitted employee or governing body member is not otherwise entitled to participate, provided that such non-benefitted employees reimburse the locality for the full cost of their participation. The bill provides that reimbursement may include forgoing all or a part of a local government salary.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0541 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB1019ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102504D (committee substitute) — source
4. Printed as engrossed 24102504D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Commerce and Labor (12-Y 0-N) — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Tony O. Wilt — primary (person)
• Thomas A. Garrett, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102504D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-10 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2024-02-06 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-06 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (6-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-08 Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-11 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-12 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-12 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-12 Engrossed by House as amended HB1019E
• 2024-02-12 Printed as engrossed 24102504D-E
• 2024-02-13 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2024-03-04 Reported from Commerce and Labor (12-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-03-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-06 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-06 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-25 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-25 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1019ER) passage
• 2024-03-25 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-27 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-27 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 541 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-05 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0541)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4713798d-45ea-439e-96be-b87486b03d2a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).