republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2026/sb-790.md

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Bill	Health insurance; mandated benefits, coverage for treatment of menopause and perimenopause.	Health insurance; mandated benefits; treatment of menopause and perimenopause. Requires each insurer proposing to issue individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverage on an expense-incurred basis; each corporation providing individual or group accident and sickness subscription contracts; and each health maintenance organization providing a health care plan for health care services to provide coverage for medically necessary treatment and care for menopause and perimenopause, as described in the bill.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2026	SB 790	Virginia SB 790 (2026)	bill		enacted	Ryan T. McDougle	6	38	8	2026-01-23	2026-04-13	openstates	ocd-bill/d601d1ee-883d-4fcc-816e-a9d7814cdf94	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB790	e0e3c57b5845edae4ea9ad435f8c01870746ddcdbbfb741d4b90f29b27f6f573	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 790 (2026) — Health insurance; mandated benefits, coverage for treatment of menopause and perimenopause.

Health insurance; mandated benefits; treatment of menopause and perimenopause. Requires each insurer proposing to issue individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverage on an expense-incurred basis; each corporation providing individual or group accident and sickness subscription contracts; and each health maintenance organization providing a health care plan for health care services to provide coverage for medically necessary treatment and care for menopause and perimenopause, as described in the bill.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Commerce and Labor Amendment (committee substitute) — source
3. Finance and Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Labor and Commerce Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Subcommittee #1 Subcommittee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
6. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed R — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage R — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• H VOTE: — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Concur House Substitute R — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ryan T. McDougle — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-23 Presented and ordered printed 26104365D introduction
• 2026-01-23 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2026-02-02 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB790)
• 2026-02-02 Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 0-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2026-02-05 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2026-02-09 Committee substitute printed 26107293D-S1 substitution
• 2026-02-09 Rules suspended
• 2026-02-09 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
• 2026-02-09 Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
• 2026-02-09 Passed by for the day
• 2026-02-10 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB790)
• 2026-02-10 Read second time reading-2
• 2026-02-10 Commerce and Labor Amendment rejected amendment-failure
• 2026-02-10 Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
• 2026-02-10 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute (Voice Vote) substitution
• 2026-02-11 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A) passage, reading-3
• 2026-02-17 Placed on Calendar
• 2026-02-17 Read first time reading-1
• 2026-02-17 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2026-02-17 Assigned HCL sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2026-02-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2026-02-26 Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2026-02-27 Committee substitute printed 26108621D-H1 substitution
• 2026-03-02 Read second time reading-2
• 2026-03-03 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB790)
• 2026-03-03 Read third time reading-3
• 2026-03-03 committee substitute agreed to substitution
• 2026-03-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2026-03-03 Passed House with substitute (97-Y 0-N 0-A) passage
• 2026-03-05 House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N 0-A) substitution
• 2026-03-11 Enrolled enrolled
• 2026-03-11 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB790ER) passage
• 2026-03-11 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB790)
• 2026-03-11 Signed by President passage
• 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 955 (effective 7/1/2026) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d601d1ee-883d-4fcc-816e-a9d7814cdf94. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).