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type: "Bill"
title: "Health insurance; required provisions regarding prior authorization for health care services."
description: "Health insurance; carrier contracts; required provisions regarding prior authorization for health care services; work group; report. Requires certain health insurance contracts under which an insurance carrier has the right or obligation to require prior authorization for a health care service, as defined in the bill, to include provisions governing the prior authorization process. Such required provisions include (i) time limits for a carrier to respond to prior authorization requests, (ii) a prohibition on revoking, limiting, making conditional, modifying, or restricting a previously approved prior authorization except under certain circumstances, and (iii) a requirement that a carrier shall provide the reasons for denial of a request. The bill requires a carrier to make publicly available on its website a list of health care services and codes for which prior authorization is required. The foregoing provisions have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance to establish a work group to develop and deliver a report related to the bill's provisions by November 1, 2025. This bill is identical to SB 1215."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2099"
citation: "Virginia HB 2099 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michelle Lopes Maldonado"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-01-07"
last_action: "2025-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dde32f86-11a1-4596-9636-9e276fa177f2"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2099"
source_hash: "1e4f3f33ba4d07765d0fdf7220734c12208cfdf57af6dd75e89413604438dc22"
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 2099 (2025) — Health insurance; required provisions regarding prior authorization for health care services.
Health insurance; carrier contracts; required provisions regarding prior authorization for health care services; work group; report. Requires certain health insurance contracts under which an insurance carrier has the right or obligation to require prior authorization for a health care service, as defined in the bill, to include provisions governing the prior authorization process. Such required provisions include (i) time limits for a carrier to respond to prior authorization requests, (ii) a prohibition on revoking, limiting, making conditional, modifying, or restricting a previously approved prior authorization except under certain circumstances, and (iii) a requirement that a carrier shall provide the reasons for denial of a request. The bill requires a carrier to make publicly available on its website a list of health care services and codes for which prior authorization is required. The foregoing provisions have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance to establish a work group to develop and deliver a report related to the bill's provisions by November 1, 2025. This bill is identical to SB 1215.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1015109.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071014.PDF)
3. **Labor and Commerce Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1025200.PDF)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1052488.PDF)
## Votes
- Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N) — **60** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Michelle Lopes Maldonado — primary (person)
- Briana D. Sewell — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25104651D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-07** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14** Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2025-01-23** Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-23** Committee substitute printed 25105015D-H1 `substitution`
- **2025-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-01-28** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-01-28** Labor and Commerce Substitute agreed to
- **2025-01-28** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-01-29** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-01-30** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (HB2099)
- **2025-02-10** Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-12** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-12** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-12** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-13** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-18** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-18** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2099ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-18** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (HB2099)
- **2025-02-20** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 58 (Effective 01/01/27) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-18** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0058)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dde32f86-11a1-4596-9636-9e276fa177f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).