republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-95.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health insurance; coverage for essential health benefits, preventive services."
description: "Health insurance; essential health benefits; preventive services. Requires a health carrier offering or providing a health benefit plan, including (i) catastrophic health insurance policies and policies that pay on a cost-incurred basis; (ii) association health plans; and (iii) plans provided by a multiple-employer welfare arrangement, to provide, as an essential health benefit, coverage that includes preventive care. The bill defines essential health benefits as those general categories and those items and services within such categories that are covered in accordance with regulations issued pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in effect as of January 1, 2019."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 95"
citation: "Virginia SB 95 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara A. Favola"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-12-03"
last_action: "2020-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b0a5f392-1de4-4d93-83b3-83dae832456d"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB95"
source_hash: "5d82ff83c1bf4447ec96830d069b91c727581b2e42c289c612db0511f41ab525"
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 SB 95 (2020) — Health insurance; coverage for essential health benefits, preventive services.

Health insurance; essential health benefits; preventive services. Requires a health carrier offering or providing a health benefit plan, including (i) catastrophic health insurance policies and policies that pay on a cost-incurred basis; (ii) association health plans; and (iii) plans provided by a multiple-employer welfare arrangement, to provide, as an essential health benefit, coverage that includes preventive care. The bill defines essential health benefits as those general categories and those items and services within such categories that are covered in accordance with regulations issued pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in effect as of January 1, 2019.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1160)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP1160)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB95ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB95ER)
3. **Engrossed by Senate as amended SB95E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB95E)
4. **Impact statement from SCC (SB95)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB95)

## Votes

- Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (13-Y 2-N) — **13–2** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) — **21–19** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (58-Y 42-N) — **57–42** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- House amendments agreed to by Senate (20-Y 20-N) — **20–20** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendments (13-Y 8-N) — **13–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)
- Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-12-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100541D `introduction`
- **2019-12-03** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-18** Impact statement from SCC (SB95)
- **2020-01-27** Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (13-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-29** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-30** Reading of amendment waived
- **2020-01-30** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2020-01-30** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB95E
- **2020-01-30** Printed as engrossed 20100541D-E
- **2020-01-31** Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-04** Impact statement from SCC (SB95E)
- **2020-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-13** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-25** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-02-25** Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendments (13-Y 8-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-28** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2020-02-28** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2020-02-28** Passed House with amendments (58-Y 42-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-28** VOTE: Passage (58-Y 42-N)
- **2020-03-02** House amendments agreed to by Senate (20-Y 20-N)
- **2020-03-02** Chair votes Yes
- **2020-03-06** Enrolled
- **2020-03-06** Signed by President
- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-09** Impact statement from SCC (SB95ER)
- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 1160 (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/b0a5f392-1de4-4d93-83b3-83dae832456d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).