republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2539.md

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Bill	Dental care services for pregnant women; state plan for medical assistance services, report.	Department of Medical Assistance Services; state plan for medical assistance services; dental care services for pregnant women; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment for comprehensive dental care services for pregnant women. The bill requires the Department to report to the Governor and General Assembly annually on the implementation and outcomes of the provision, and requires the first such report to be submitted by November 1, 2026.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2539	Virginia HB 2539 (2025)	bill		enacted	Candi Mundon King	5	39	13	2025-01-09	2025-03-24	openstates	ocd-bill/49fcbc19-7f33-4049-8f2a-7b6cea2bd1b4	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2539	a2c8982b4c325dc9cd8046869c2cf9cbd9f6620b33279bd351068a94b8d1c0b1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2539 (2025) — Dental care services for pregnant women; state plan for medical assistance services, report.

Department of Medical Assistance Services; state plan for medical assistance services; dental care services for pregnant women; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment for comprehensive dental care services for pregnant women. The bill requires the Department to report to the Governor and General Assembly annually on the implementation and outcomes of the provision, and requires the first such report to be submitted by November 1, 2026.

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. Education and Health Amendment (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Amendment (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting and rereferred to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health with amendment and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services and rereferred to Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Reconsideration of Passed Senate with substitute block vote agreed to (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate Amendment agreed to by House (95-Y 1-N) — 95–1 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Candi Mundon King — primary (person)
• Adele Y. McClure — cosponsor (person)
• Amy J. Laufer — cosponsor (person)
• Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
• Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
• Holly M. Seibold — cosponsor (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
• Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• Phil M. Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
• Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103448D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-09 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Assigned sub: Social Services referral-committee
• 2025-01-23 Subcommittee recommends reporting and referring to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-26 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2539)
• 2025-01-28 Reported from Health and Human Services and referred to Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-28 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 and engrossed reading-2
• 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 Education and Health referral-committee
• 2025-02-11 Assigned Education sub: Health referral-committee
• 2025-02-13 Reported from Education and Health with amendment and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-19 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-19 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-20 Reading of amendment waived
• 2025-02-20 Education and Health Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-02-20 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2025-02-20 Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-20 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-20 Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-20 Senate Amendment agreed to by House (95-Y 1-N) amendment-passage
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2539ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2539)
• 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 461 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0461)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/49fcbc19-7f33-4049-8f2a-7b6cea2bd1b4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).