republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2026/hb-1452.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	Medicaid; expedited review process for service authorization requests, report.	Department of Medical Assistance Services; expedited review process for Medicaid service authorization requests; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to (i) implement expedited review of Medicaid service authorization requests consistent with applicable federal law and (ii) annually transmit the prior authorization report required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to the Chairs of the House Committees on Appropriations and Health and Human Services and the Senate Committees on Finance and Appropriations and Education and Health.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2026	HB 1452	Virginia HB 1452 (2026)	bill		enacted	Bonita G. Anthony	5	35	7	2026-01-23	2026-04-06	openstates	ocd-bill/9a5f27e6-a959-4bd4-9bee-27aee09d7aec	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB1452	8dfa4b47f36e798a07f0b8883c777aab405a8a0cc0d4fb7a233b08347ce896d4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1452 (2026) — Medicaid; expedited review process for service authorization requests, report.

Department of Medical Assistance Services; expedited review process for Medicaid service authorization requests; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to (i) implement expedited review of Medicaid service authorization requests consistent with applicable federal law and (ii) annually transmit the prior authorization report required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to the Chairs of the House Committees on Appropriations and Health and Human Services and the Senate Committees on Finance and Appropriations and Education and Health.

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. Health and Human Services Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Social Services Subcommittee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage R — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• H VOTE: — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute — 17–3 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bonita G. Anthony — primary (person)
• Amy J. Laufer — cosponsor (person)
• Charlie Schmidt — cosponsor (person)
• Nicole Cole — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-23 Presented and ordered printed 26104871D introduction
• 2026-01-23 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2026-01-30 Assigned sub: Social Services referral-committee
• 2026-02-03 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1452)
• 2026-02-05 House subcommittee offered
• 2026-02-05 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) substitution
• 2026-02-10 Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (17-Y 3-N) committee-passage
• 2026-02-10 Reconsidered by Health and Human Services (Voice Vote)
• 2026-02-12 House committee offered
• 2026-02-12 Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2026-02-12 Committee substitute printed 26107855D-H1 substitution
• 2026-02-13 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1452)
• 2026-02-15 Read first time reading-1
• 2026-02-16 Read second time reading-2
• 2026-02-16 committee substitute agreed to substitution
• 2026-02-16 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2026-02-17 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N 0-A) passage, reading-3
• 2026-02-18 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2026-02-18 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2026-02-24 Assigned Education sub: Health referral-committee
• 2026-02-26 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2026-02-27 Rules suspended
• 2026-02-27 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (37-Y 0-N 0-A)
• 2026-02-27 Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
• 2026-03-02 Read third time reading-3
• 2026-03-02 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A) passage
• 2026-03-09 Enrolled enrolled
• 2026-03-09 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1452ER) passage
• 2026-03-09 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1452)
• 2026-03-09 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2026-03-09 Signed by President passage
• 2026-03-10 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2026-03-10 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 executive-receipt
• 2026-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 314 (effective 7/1/2026) executive-signature
• 2026-04-06 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0314)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9a5f27e6-a959-4bd4-9bee-27aee09d7aec. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).