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type: "Bill"
title: "Health carriers; licensed athletic trainers."
description: "Health carriers; licensed athletic trainers. Requires health insurers and health service plan providers whose policies or contracts cover services that may be legally performed by a licensed athletic trainer to provide equal coverage for such services when rendered by a licensed athletic trainer when such services are performed in an office setting. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Health Insurance Reform Commission. This bill is identical to HB 45."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 525"
citation: "Virginia SB 525 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["George L. Barker"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29f0c509-15f0-4355-9c1e-3c72210e540f"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB525"
source_hash: "2eac2446f08d204c118cc164263d085a21f5be324b67ecc73728dc84bacaf55c"
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 525 (2022) — Health carriers; licensed athletic trainers.
Health carriers; licensed athletic trainers. Requires health insurers and health service plan providers whose policies or contracts cover services that may be legally performed by a licensed athletic trainer to provide equal coverage for such services when rendered by a licensed athletic trainer when such services are performed in an office setting. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Health Insurance Reform Commission. This bill is identical to HB 45.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0441** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0441)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102490D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB525)
3. **Printed as engrossed 22102490D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB525E)
4. **SB525ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB525ER)
## Votes
- Reported from Commerce and Energy (19-Y 3-N) — **193** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — **100** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments (14-Y 1-N) — **141** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) — **381** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (92-Y 7-N) — **917** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- George L. Barker — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102490D `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-31** Impact statement from DPB (SB525)
- **2022-01-31** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-01-31** Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments (14-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-03** Reading of amendments waived
- **2022-02-03** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2022-02-03** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB525E
- **2022-02-03** Printed as engrossed 22102490D-E
- **2022-02-04** Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-07** Impact statement from DPB (SB525E)
- **2022-02-21** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-21** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23** Assigned sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-01** Reported from Commerce and Energy (19-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** Passed House (92-Y 7-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-04** VOTE: Passage (92-Y 7-N)
- **2022-03-09** Enrolled
- **2022-03-09** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB525ER)
- **2022-03-10** Signed by President
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 441 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/29f0c509-15f0-4355-9c1e-3c72210e540f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).