republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/sb-1215.md

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Bill	Health insurance; required provisions regarding prior authorization for health care services.	Health insurance; carrier contracts; required provisions regarding prior authorization for health care services; work group; report. Requires certain health insurance contracts under which an insurance carrier has the right or obligation to require prior authorization for a health care service, as defined in the bill, to include provisions governing the prior authorization process. Such required provisions include (i) time limits for a carrier to respond to prior authorization requests, (ii) a prohibition on revoking, limiting, making conditional, modifying, or restricting a previously approved prior authorization except under certain circumstances, and (iii) a requirement that a carrier shall provide the reasons for denial of a request. The bill requires a carrier to make publicly available on its website a list of health care services and codes for which prior authorization is required. The foregoing provisions have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance to establish a work group to develop and deliver a report related to the bill's provisions by November 1, 2025. This bill is identical to HB 2099.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	SB 1215	Virginia SB 1215 (2025)	bill		enacted	Stella G. Pekarsky	4	28	5	2025-01-08	2025-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/e322ac6c-ac21-45ff-abf2-e1e844508797	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1215	2575e6bbba2ec98fef384d5402803444c8150c164197be32595b4a3b1375739d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1215 (2025) — Health insurance; required provisions regarding prior authorization for health care services.

Health insurance; carrier contracts; required provisions regarding prior authorization for health care services; work group; report. Requires certain health insurance contracts under which an insurance carrier has the right or obligation to require prior authorization for a health care service, as defined in the bill, to include provisions governing the prior authorization process. Such required provisions include (i) time limits for a carrier to respond to prior authorization requests, (ii) a prohibition on revoking, limiting, making conditional, modifying, or restricting a previously approved prior authorization except under certain circumstances, and (iii) a requirement that a carrier shall provide the reasons for denial of a request. The bill requires a carrier to make publicly available on its website a list of health care services and codes for which prior authorization is required. The foregoing provisions have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance to establish a work group to develop and deliver a report related to the bill's provisions by November 1, 2025. This bill is identical to HB 2099.

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. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed House (94-Y 0-N) — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Labor and Commerce (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Stella G. Pekarsky — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104544D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2025-01-20 Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-20 Committee substitute printed 25105395D-S1 substitution
• 2025-01-22 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-22 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-22 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-23 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-23 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-01-23 Commerce and Labor Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-23 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-01-24 Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-03 Placed on Calendar
• 2025-02-03 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2025-02-06 Reported from Labor and Commerce (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-10 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-11 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-11 Passed House (94-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-13 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-13 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1215ER) passage
• 2025-02-13 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-16 Signed by President passage
• 2025-02-19 Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (SB1215)
• 2025-02-20 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 20, 2025 enrolled
• 2025-02-20 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 68 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-18 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0068)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e322ac6c-ac21-45ff-abf2-e1e844508797. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).