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type: "Bill"
title: "Health insurance; locality to allow local employees to participate in its group insurance programs."
description: "Health insurance for local employees. Permits any locality to allow participation in its group health insurance program by any non-benefitted employee, including members of governing bodies, if such non-benefitted employee or governing body member is not otherwise entitled to participate, provided that such non-benefitted employees reimburse the locality for the full cost of their participation. The bill provides that reimbursement may include forgoing all or a part of a local government salary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1019"
citation: "Virginia HB 1019 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony O. Wilt"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-10"
last_action: "2024-04-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4713798d-45ea-439e-96be-b87486b03d2a"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1019"
source_hash: "9aa1846a6ff0037561d20d70267eb1b1280ca0d3327c7f4cd83d9b974d8dd18d"
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 1019 (2024) — Health insurance; locality to allow local employees to participate in its group insurance programs.
Health insurance for local employees. Permits any locality to allow participation in its group health insurance program by any non-benefitted employee, including members of governing bodies, if such non-benefitted employee or governing body member is not otherwise entitled to participate, provided that such non-benefitted employees reimburse the locality for the full cost of their participation. The bill provides that reimbursement may include forgoing all or a part of a local government salary.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0541** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0541)
2. **HB1019ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1019ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102504D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1019)
4. **Printed as engrossed 24102504D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1019E+pdf)
## Votes
- Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Labor (12-Y 0-N) — **120** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (6-Y 0-N) — **60** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Tony O. Wilt — primary (person)
- Thomas A. Garrett, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102504D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-10** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-23** Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-06** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2024-02-06** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (6-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-08** Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-11** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-12** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-12** Committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-12** Engrossed by House as amended HB1019E
- **2024-02-12** Printed as engrossed 24102504D-E
- **2024-02-13** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-13** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-02-14** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-04** Reported from Commerce and Labor (12-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-03-06** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-06** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-25** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1019ER) `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-26** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-27** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 541 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-05** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0541)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4713798d-45ea-439e-96be-b87486b03d2a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).