republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-1923.md

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Bill	Health insurance; reimbursement for services rendered by certain practitioners, etc.	Health insurance; reimbursement for services rendered by certain practitioners other than physicians. Requires health insurers and health service plan providers whose policies or contracts cover services that may be legally performed by a licensed certified midwife or licensed midwife to provide equal coverage for such services. The bill requires the reimbursement for a service provided by a licensed certified midwife or licensed midwife to be in the same amount as the reimbursement paid under the policy to a certified nurse midwife performing such service in the area served, subject to certain conditions.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1923	Virginia HB 1923 (2025)	bill		enacted	Jeion A. Ward	7	55	16	2025-01-06	2025-05-02	openstates	ocd-bill/1c58332f-231b-484a-95bb-baf4f51137fb	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1923	b975748e423a5940ee46e47088f97e8376202b7e52d465dc92d5cc5d18d51374	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1923 (2025) — Health insurance; reimbursement for services rendered by certain practitioners, etc.

Health insurance; reimbursement for services rendered by certain practitioners other than physicians. Requires health insurers and health service plan providers whose policies or contracts cover services that may be legally performed by a licensed certified midwife or licensed midwife to provide equal coverage for such services. The bill requires the reimbursement for a service provided by a licensed certified midwife or licensed midwife to be in the same amount as the reimbursement paid under the policy to a certified nurse midwife performing such service in the area served, subject to certain conditions.

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. Commerce and Labor Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Conference Report (committee substitute) — source
5. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
6. Labor and Commerce Substitute (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed in enrolled form (70-Y 24-N) — 70–24 (pass) · lower
• House rejected Governor's recommendation (14-Y 81-N) — 14–81 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Conference report agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and rereferred to Appropriations (5-Y 2-N) — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate substitute rejected by House (0-Y 96-N) — 0–96 (fail) · lower
• Senate insisted on amendment (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute and rereferred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jeion A. Ward — primary (person)
• Adele Y. McClure — cosponsor (person)
• Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
• Candi Mundon King — cosponsor (person)
• Chris Obenshain — cosponsor (person)
• Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
• Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
• Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
• Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
• Michael J. Jones — cosponsor (person)
• Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
• Wren M. Williams — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25100572D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-06 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2025-01-14 Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and referred to Appropriations (5-Y 2-N) substitution
• 2025-01-23 Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute and referred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-23 Committee substitute printed 25105490D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-24 Assigned Approps sub: Health & Human Resources referral-committee
• 2025-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-31 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Labor and Commerce Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2025-02-04 Passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2025-02-10 Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-10 Committee substitute printed 25107039D-S1 substitution
• 2025-02-12 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-12 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-12 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-13 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-13 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-02-13 Commerce and Labor Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-13 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-13 Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-17 Senate substitute rejected by House (0-Y 96-N)
• 2025-02-18 Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-02-18 Senate requested conference committee referral-committee
• 2025-02-19 House acceded to request
• 2025-02-19 Conferees appointed by House
• 2025-02-19 Delegates: Ward, Mundon King, Webert
• 2025-02-20 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2025-02-20 Senators: Surovell, Locke, Stanley
• 2025-02-21 Amended by conference committee
• 2025-02-21 Conference report agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-21 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-04 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1923)
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1923ER) 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
• 2025-03-12 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1923)
• 2025-03-24 Governor's recommendation received by House executive-veto-line-item
• 2025-04-02 House rejected Governor's recommendation (14-Y 81-N) veto-override-passage
• 2025-04-02 Passed in enrolled form (70-Y 24-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 Approved by Governor-Chapter 695 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-05-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0695)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1c58332f-231b-484a-95bb-baf4f51137fb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).