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type: "Bill"
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title: "Health insurance; proton radiation therapy coverage decisions."
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description: "Prohibits health insurance policies and plans from holding proton radiation therapy to a higher standard of clinical evidence for benefit coverage decisions than is applied for other types of radiation therapy treatment. The measure applies to policies and plans that provide coverage for cancer therapy. The bill contains an emergency clause."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2017"
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identifier: "HB 1656"
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citation: "Virginia HB 1656 (2017)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Emergency Legislation", "Insurance"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["David E. Yancey"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 20
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2017-01-05"
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last_action: "2017-03-03"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b245490c-ac27-4eec-b305-71bd2fea7c06"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1656"
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source_hash: "db097797720a0ee764c67c15c3453d94585f2d136ab30da394707dff4a79d13c"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 1656 (2017) — Health insurance; proton radiation therapy coverage decisions.
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Prohibits health insurance policies and plans from holding proton radiation therapy to a higher standard of clinical evidence for benefit coverage decisions than is applied for other types of radiation therapy treatment. The measure applies to policies and plans that provide coverage for cancer therapy. The bill contains an emergency clause.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0287)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0287)
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2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1656ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1656ER)
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3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100395D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1656)
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## Votes
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- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **16–4** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Read third time and passed House — **93–4** (pass) · legislature
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **90–3** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed Senate with amendment — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- David E. Yancey — primary (person)
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- David B. Albo — cosponsor (person)
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- Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
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- James E. Edmunds, II — cosponsor (person)
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- Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
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- Luke E. Torian — cosponsor (person)
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- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
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- Matthew James — cosponsor (person)
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- Ronald A. Villanueva — cosponsor (person)
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- Thomas C. Wright, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100395D `introduction`
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- **2017-01-05** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2017-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House (93-Y 4-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2017-02-16** Reading of amendment waived
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- **2017-02-16** Amendment by Senator Wagner agreed to `amendment-passage`
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- **2017-02-16** Emergency clause added
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- **2017-02-16** Engrossed by Senate as amended
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- **2017-02-20** Placed on Calendar
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- **2017-02-20** Senate amendment agreed to by House (90-Y 3-N)
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- **2017-02-23** Enrolled
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- **2017-02-23** Signed by Speaker
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- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
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- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
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- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
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- **2017-03-03** Approved by Governor-Chapter 287 (effective 3/3/17) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b245490c-ac27-4eec-b305-71bd2fea7c06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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