republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-1976.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	High-risk pregnant patients; remote patient monitoring services available to patients.	Department of Medical Assistance Services; remote patient monitoring; high-risk pregnant patients. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend its regulations, guidance, and provider manuals to clarify that remote patient monitoring services for high-risk pregnant patients include pregnant patients with maternal diabetes and maternal hypertension. The bill requires the Department to submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly by November 1, 2025, on the number of persons receiving remote patient monitoring services for maternal diabetes and maternal hypertension and the cost of providing such services.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1976	Virginia HB 1976 (2025)	bill		enacted	Amy J. Laufer	4	34	9	2025-01-07	2025-03-24	openstates	ocd-bill/ff51d44e-adb9-4f1e-8cca-99f9d37d2488	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1976	fb48bf760f48380f8b774d0311988a4c6a5082c0b48515d6649a4bfc406befbb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1976 (2025) — High-risk pregnant patients; remote patient monitoring services available to patients.

Department of Medical Assistance Services; remote patient monitoring; high-risk pregnant patients. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend its regulations, guidance, and provider manuals to clarify that remote patient monitoring services for high-risk pregnant patients include pregnant patients with maternal diabetes and maternal hypertension. The bill requires the Department to submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly by November 1, 2025, on the number of persons receiving remote patient monitoring services for maternal diabetes and maternal hypertension and the cost of providing such services.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services and rereferred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting and rereferred to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Amy J. Laufer — primary (person)
• Candi Mundon King — cosponsor (person)
• Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Callsen — cosponsor (person)
• Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25103505D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-07 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2025-01-14 Assigned sub: Health referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Subcommittee recommends reporting and referred to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-22 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1976)
• 2025-01-23 Reported from Health and Human Services and referred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-23 Assigned Approps sub: Health & Human Resources referral-committee
• 2025-01-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-01-27 Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-27 Committee substitute printed 25106007D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-29 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-30 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1976)
• 2025-01-30 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-30 Appropriations Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-30 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-01-31 Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-03 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2025-02-11 Assigned Education sub: Health referral-committee
• 2025-02-13 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-17 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)
• 2025-02-17 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-18 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-18 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1976ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1976)
• 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
• 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 521 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0521)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ff51d44e-adb9-4f1e-8cca-99f9d37d2488. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).