republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-1429.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health insurance; nondiscrimination, gender identity or transgender status."
description: "Health insurance; nondiscrimination; gender identity or transgender status. Prohibits a health carrier from denying or limiting coverage or imposing additional cost sharing or other limitations or restrictions on coverage, under a health benefit plan for health care services that are ordinarily or exclusively available to covered individuals of one sex, to a transgender individual on the basis of the fact that the individual's sex assigned at birth, gender identity, or gender otherwise recorded is different from the one to which such health services are ordinarily or exclusively available. The measure also prohibits a health carrier from (i) subjecting an individual to discrimination under a health benefit plan on the basis of gender identity or being a transgender individual or (ii) requiring that an individual, as a condition of enrollment or continued enrollment under a health benefit plan, pay a premium that is greater than the premium for a similarly situated covered person enrolled in the plan on the basis of the covered person's gender identity or being a transgender individual. The measure requires health carriers to assess medical necessity according to nondiscriminatory criteria that are consistent with current medical standards."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1429"
citation: "Virginia HB 1429 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Danica A. Roem"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c97c248-f8f2-49b6-9bcc-3b6bf8c1f840"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1429"
source_hash: "2d299333d258d948898faddf684840d73f8c4734908e78e72414484df176c84e"
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 1429 (2020) — Health insurance; nondiscrimination, gender identity or transgender status.

Health insurance; nondiscrimination; gender identity or transgender status. Prohibits a health carrier from denying or limiting coverage or imposing additional cost sharing or other limitations or restrictions on coverage, under a health benefit plan for health care services that are ordinarily or exclusively available to covered individuals of one sex, to a transgender individual on the basis of the fact that the individual's sex assigned at birth, gender identity, or gender otherwise recorded is different from the one to which such health services are ordinarily or exclusively available. The measure also prohibits a health carrier from (i) subjecting an individual to discrimination under a health benefit plan on the basis of gender identity or being a transgender individual or (ii) requiring that an individual, as a condition of enrollment or continued enrollment under a health benefit plan, pay a premium that is greater than the premium for a similarly situated covered person enrolled in the plan on the basis of the covered person's gender identity or being a transgender individual. The measure requires health carriers to assess medical necessity according to nondiscriminatory criteria that are consistent with current medical standards.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0844)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0844)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1429ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1429ER)
3. **Engrossed by House as amended HB1429E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1429E)
4. **Impact statement from SCC (HB1429)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1429)

## Votes

- VOTE: Passage (54-Y 41-N) — **53–41** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) — **22–18** (pass) · upper
- Amendment by Senator Newman rejected (19-Y 21-N) — **19–21** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor (12-Y 2-N) — **12–2** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendments (13-Y 9-N) — **13–9** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 0-N) — **5–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Danica A. Roem — primary (person)
- Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
- Clinton L. Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
- Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
- Janet D. Howell — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey M. Bourne — cosponsor (person)
- Jerrauld C. "Jay" Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
- Lee J. Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
- Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)
- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
- Michael P. Mullin — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
- Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)
- Wendy W. Gooditis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103621D `introduction`
- **2020-01-08** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-16** Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Impact statement from SCC (HB1429)
- **2020-01-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-28** Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendments (13-Y 9-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-31** Passed by for the day
- **2020-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-03** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2020-02-03** Engrossed by House as amended HB1429E
- **2020-02-03** Printed as engrossed 20103621D-E
- **2020-02-04** Read third time and passed House (54-Y 41-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-04** VOTE: Passage (54-Y 41-N)
- **2020-02-04** Impact statement from SCC (HB1429E)
- **2020-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-05** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02** Reported from Commerce and Labor (12-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-04** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-05** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** Reading of amendment waived
- **2020-03-05** Amendment by Senator Newman rejected (19-Y 21-N) `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-05** Passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) `passage`
- **2020-03-12** Enrolled
- **2020-03-12** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-12** Signed by President
- **2020-03-13** Impact statement from SCC (HB1429ER)
- **2020-03-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 17, 2020
- **2020-03-17** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-04-07** Approved by Governor-Chapter 844 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0c97c248-f8f2-49b6-9bcc-3b6bf8c1f840`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).