republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2026/sb-73.md

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Bill	Medicaid billing navigation for certain school services; DMAS to train local school division staff.	Department of Medical Assistance Services; Medicaid billing navigation. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to provide training to local school division staff regarding assisting schools in effectively navigating the laws, policies, rules, regulations, and guidelines governing Medicaid billing for reimbursable services rendered at school sites, including the federal Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, and to ensure that all school divisions are able to fully leverage Medicaid funding opportunities to enhance student health services in the Commonwealth. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the School Health Services Committee.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2026	SB 73	Virginia SB 73 (2026)	bill		enacted	Kannan Srinivasan	6	38	9	2025-12-17	2026-04-13	openstates	ocd-bill/b34fe739-e067-4925-a822-9446dc34e301	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB73	464c40bb411d038dd8a16c6e15015f05fc413aaa9d5dde29f60b3dae4600abb1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 73 (2026) — Medicaid billing navigation for certain school services; DMAS to train local school division staff.

Department of Medical Assistance Services; Medicaid billing navigation. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to provide training to local school division staff regarding assisting schools in effectively navigating the laws, policies, rules, regulations, and guidelines governing Medicaid billing for reimbursable services rendered at school sites, including the federal Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, and to ensure that all school divisions are able to fully leverage Medicaid funding opportunities to enhance student health services in the Commonwealth. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the School Health Services Committee.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Finance and Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Health and Human Services Amendment (committee substitute) — source
4. House Amendment (committee substitute) — source
5. Social Services Subcommittee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
6. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) — 19–2 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed R — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage R — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Concur House Amendment R — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• H VOTE: — 79–19 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kannan Srinivasan — primary (person)
• Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
• Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-12-17 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100487D filing, introduction
• 2025-12-17 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2026-01-29 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2026-02-05 Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2026-02-11 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB73)
• 2026-02-12 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2026-02-13 Rules suspended
• 2026-02-13 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (35-Y 0-N 0-A)
• 2026-02-13 Passed by for the day
• 2026-02-13 Committee substitute printed 26107861D-S1 substitution
• 2026-02-16 Read second time reading-2
• 2026-02-16 Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
• 2026-02-16 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute Block Vote (Voice Vote) substitution
• 2026-02-16 Rules suspended
• 2026-02-16 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
• 2026-02-16 Read third time and passed Senate Block Vote (39-Y 0-N 0-A) passage, reading-3
• 2026-02-18 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB73)
• 2026-02-19 Placed on Calendar
• 2026-02-19 Read first time reading-1
• 2026-02-19 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2026-02-23 Assigned sub: Social Services referral-committee
• 2026-02-26 House subcommittee offered
• 2026-02-26 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) and referring to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N)
• 2026-02-26 Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) (19-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2026-03-02 Read second time reading-2
• 2026-03-03 Read third time reading-3
• 2026-03-03 committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2026-03-03 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2026-03-03 Passed House with amendment (79-Y 19-N 0-A) passage
• 2026-03-05 House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N 0-A) amendment-passage
• 2026-03-11 Enrolled enrolled
• 2026-03-11 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB73ER) passage
• 2026-03-11 Signed by President passage
• 2026-03-12 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB73)
• 2026-03-12 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2026-03-14 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 14, 2026 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2026-03-14 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 executive-receipt
• 2026-04-13 Approved by Governor-Chapter 816 (effective 7/1/2026) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b34fe739-e067-4925-a822-9446dc34e301. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).