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Bill Essential health benefits benchmark plan; Commission to consider coverage for infertility treatment. Health insurance; coverage for fertility services; essential health benefits benchmark plan. Requires the Health Insurance Reform Commission to consider coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility and for standard fertility preservation procedures in its 2025 review of the essential health benefits benchmark plan. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2025 HB 1609 Virginia HB 1609 (2025)
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Virginia HB 1609 (2025) — Essential health benefits benchmark plan; Commission to consider coverage for infertility treatment.

Health insurance; coverage for fertility services; essential health benefits benchmark plan. Requires the Health Insurance Reform Commission to consider coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility and for standard fertility preservation procedures in its 2025 review of the essential health benefits benchmark plan.

Version chain

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

  1. Introduced (filed) — source
  2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  3. Finance and Appropriations Amendment (committee substitute) — source
  4. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
  5. Governor's Signature Explanation (committee substitute) — source
  6. Labor and Commerce Substitute (committee substitute) — source
  7. Senate Amendment (committee substitute) — source
  8. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute and rereferred to Appropriations (17-Y 5-N) — 175 (pass) · lower
  • Passed in enrolled form (64-Y 31-N) — 6431 (pass) · lower
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — 70 (pass) · lower
  • Read third time and passed House (84-Y 11-N) — 8411 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Appropriations (20-Y 2-N) — 202 (pass) · lower
  • Senate Amendment agreed to by House (85-Y 9-N) — 859 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Commerce and Labor and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) — 105 (pass) · upper
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — 70 (pass) · lower
  • House rejected Governor's recommendation (26-Y 67-N) — 2667 (fail) · lower
  • Passed Senate with amendment (23-Y 16-N) — 2316 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (10-Y 3-N) — 103 (pass) · upper
  • Rereferred from Education and Health and rereferred to Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) — 140 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Dan I. Helmer — primary (person)
  • Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
  • Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
  • Joshua E. Thomas — cosponsor (person)
  • Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-03 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101118D filing, introduction
  • 2025-01-03 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
  • 2025-01-10 Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
  • 2025-01-14 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) substitution
  • 2025-01-16 Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute and referred to Appropriations (17-Y 5-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-01-16 Committee substitute printed 25104754D-H1 substitution
  • 2025-01-17 Assigned Approps sub: Health & Human Resources referral-committee
  • 2025-01-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-01-27 Reported from Appropriations (20-Y 2-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-01-29 Read first time reading-1
  • 2025-01-30 Read second time reading-2
  • 2025-01-30 Labor and Commerce Substitute agreed to
  • 2025-01-30 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
  • 2025-01-31 Read third time and passed House (84-Y 11-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2025-02-03 Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (HB1609)
  • 2025-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
  • 2025-02-03 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
  • 2025-02-06 Rereferred from Education and Health to Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) referral-committee
  • 2025-02-10 Reported from Commerce and Labor and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-02-14 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (10-Y 3-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-02-17 Rules suspended
  • 2025-02-17 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-02-17 Passed by for the day
  • 2025-02-18 Read third time reading-3
  • 2025-02-18 Reading of amendment waived
  • 2025-02-18 Finance and Appropriations Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
  • 2025-02-18 Engrossed by Senate as amended
  • 2025-02-18 Passed Senate with amendment (23-Y 16-N) passage
  • 2025-02-19 Senate Amendment agreed to by House (85-Y 9-N) amendment-passage
  • 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1609ER) passage
  • 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
  • 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
  • 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
  • 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
  • 2025-03-18 Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (HB1609)
  • 2025-03-24 Governor's recommendation received by House executive-veto-line-item
  • 2025-04-02 House rejected Governor's recommendation (26-Y 67-N) veto-override-passage
  • 2025-04-02 Passed in enrolled form (64-Y 31-N) committee-passage-favorable, enrolled
  • 2025-04-02 Passed by for the day
  • 2025-04-02 Communicated to Governor
  • 2025-04-02 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 2, 2025 executive-receipt
  • 2025-05-02 Governor's Signature Explanation
  • 2025-05-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 689 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
  • 2025-05-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d50cc2c7-f158-494f-aaa8-97f8d332b1bf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).