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Bill Health insurance; carrier business practices, method of payment for claims. Health insurance; carrier business practices; method of payment for transactions. Requires a health insurance carrier to notify the provider in a provider contract if the carrier, or entity completing a transaction on behalf of the carrier, uses a payment method that imposes a transaction or processing fee or similar charge on the provider and to offer the provider an alternative payment method that does not impose such a fee or similar charge. If the provider elects to accept the alternative payment method and has provided all required information to the carrier to enroll in such alternative method, the bill specifies that the carrier is required to pay the claim using such alternative payment method. This bill is identical to SB 925. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2025 HB 2085 Virginia HB 2085 (2025)
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Virginia HB 2085 (2025) — Health insurance; carrier business practices, method of payment for claims.

Health insurance; carrier business practices; method of payment for transactions. Requires a health insurance carrier to notify the provider in a provider contract if the carrier, or entity completing a transaction on behalf of the carrier, uses a payment method that imposes a transaction or processing fee or similar charge on the provider and to offer the provider an alternative payment method that does not impose such a fee or similar charge. If the provider elects to accept the alternative payment method and has provided all required information to the carrier to enroll in such alternative method, the bill specifies that the carrier is required to pay the claim using such alternative payment method. This bill is identical to SB 925.

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. Labor and Commerce Substitute (committee substitute) — source
  4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — 150 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) — 960 (pass) · lower
  • Passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 970 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Irene Shin — primary (person)
  • Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
  • Amy J. Laufer — cosponsor (person)
  • Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
  • Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101673D filing, introduction
  • 2025-01-07 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
  • 2025-01-16 Committee substitute printed 25105122D-H1 substitution
  • 2025-01-16 Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-01-20 Read first time reading-1
  • 2025-01-21 Read second time reading-2
  • 2025-01-21 Labor and Commerce Substitute agreed to
  • 2025-01-21 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
  • 2025-01-22 Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2025-01-22 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
  • 2025-01-22 Passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2025-01-23 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
  • 2025-01-23 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
  • 2025-01-29 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2085)
  • 2025-02-10 Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 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 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2025-02-18 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-02-18 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2085ER) passage
  • 2025-02-18 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2085)
  • 2025-02-18 Signed by Speaker passage
  • 2025-02-20 Signed by President passage
  • 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
  • 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
  • 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 236 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
  • 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0236)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/16607f0d-be43-49ab-aa42-9381fa88dd01. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).