republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2738.md

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Bill	Health insurance; coverage for mental health and substance abuse disorders.	Health insurance; coverage for mental health and substance abuse disorders; generally accepted standards of care. Requires health insurance coverage, as defined in the bill, to provide coverage for mental health and substance use disorder benefits for children, adolescents, and adults and requires such coverage to apply the definitions of "generally accepted standards of mental health or substance use disorder care" and "medically necessary" provided in the bill for any determination of medical necessity, prior authorization, or utilization review under such coverage.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2738	Virginia HB 2738 (2025)	bill		enacted	Mark D. Sickles	7	32	7	2025-01-17	2025-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/d45b6488-ec0a-4f71-a27b-2842a4b51e1a	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2738	e8d11d2c44914b5da1c8fdd20448d32d13410e21176a48d4b2a126674fccaec3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2738 (2025) — Health insurance; coverage for mental health and substance abuse disorders.

Health insurance; coverage for mental health and substance abuse disorders; generally accepted standards of care. Requires health insurance coverage, as defined in the bill, to provide coverage for mental health and substance use disorder benefits for children, adolescents, and adults and requires such coverage to apply the definitions of "generally accepted standards of mental health or substance use disorder care" and "medically necessary" provided in the bill for any determination of medical necessity, prior authorization, or utilization review under such coverage.

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 Amendment (committee substitute) — source
4. Labor and Commerce Subcommittee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Labor and Commerce Substitute (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Amendments (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (14-Y 8-N) — 14–8 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate Amendments agreed to by House (83-Y 15-N) — 83–15 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 2-N) — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (79-Y 19-N) — 79–19 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mark D. Sickles — primary (person)
• Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
• Luke E. Torian — cosponsor (person)
• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
• Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-17 Presented and ordered printed 25104829D introduction
• 2025-01-17 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2025-01-23 Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2025-01-28 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 2-N) substitution
• 2025-01-30 Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (14-Y 8-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-30 Committee substitute printed 25106283D-H1 substitution
• 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 (79-Y 19-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2025-02-17 Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-18 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-18 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-18 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-19 Reading of amendments waived
• 2025-02-19 Commerce and Labor Amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-02-19 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2025-02-19 Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-20 Senate Amendments agreed to by House (83-Y 15-N) amendment-passage
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2738ER) 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 (HB2738)
• 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 314 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0314)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d45b6488-ec0a-4f71-a27b-2842a4b51e1a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).