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type: "Bill"
title: "Health insurer/health maintenance organization; response to notice from pharmacy's intermediary."
description: "Provides that if a pharmacy has provided notice through an intermediary of its agreement to accept reimbursements at rates applicable to preferred providers, the insurer or its intermediary may elect to respond directly to the pharmacy instead of the intermediary. The measure does not require a carrier to contract with a pharmacy's intermediary and does not prohibit an insurer or its intermediary from contracting with or disclosing confidential information to a pharmacy's intermediary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1450"
citation: "Virginia HB 1450 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance", "Narcotics and Drugs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Lee Ware"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2016-12-02"
last_action: "2017-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2ee65b7-50f4-49b8-ab09-288213124106"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1450"
source_hash: "003e67419725bc62c518b1c5232de00dc743fe754c15e3fbdcf98a6c8433258d"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 1450 (2017) — Health insurer/health maintenance organization; response to notice from pharmacy's intermediary.
Provides that if a pharmacy has provided notice through an intermediary of its agreement to accept reimbursements at rates applicable to preferred providers, the insurer or its intermediary may elect to respond directly to the pharmacy instead of the intermediary. The measure does not require a carrier to contract with a pharmacy's intermediary and does not prohibit an insurer or its intermediary from contracting with or disclosing confidential information to a pharmacy's intermediary.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0615)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0615)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1450ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1450ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17103648D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1450H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101939D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1450)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **131** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **391** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute — **200** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- R. Lee Ware — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2016-12-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101939D `introduction`
- **2016-12-02** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-19** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-20** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-20** Committee substitute agreed to 17103648D-H1
- **2017-01-20** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1450H1
- **2017-01-23** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-24** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-20** Enrolled
- **2017-02-20** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-21** Signed by President
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 615 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d2ee65b7-50f4-49b8-ab09-288213124106`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).