Essential health benefits benchmark plan; Commission to consider coverage for infertility treatment.
Summary
Health insurance; coverage for fertility services; essential health benefits benchmark plan. Requires the Health Insurance Reform Commission to consider coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility and for standard fertility preservation procedures in its 2025 review of the essential health benefits benchmark plan.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Apr 2025
House of Delegates Passage
Mar 2025
Senate Passage
Apr 2025
Signed into Law
May 2025
Introduced Jan 3, 2025
Signed May 2, 2025
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MINOR
This bill was finalized and assigned Chapter 689 of the 2025 Virginia Acts of Assembly. The substantive policy content remains unchanged, directing the Health Insurance Reform Commission to include infertility diagnosis, treatment, and specific embryo transfers in its 2025 essential health benefits benchmark plan review.
Scope change
The bill's scope and applicability remain unchanged; it continues to apply to the Health Insurance Reform Commission's 2025 benchmark plan review.
TECHNICAL
Removed the placeholder text 'VIRGINIA ACTS OF ASSEMBLY -- CHAPTER'.
Added the specific chapter number 'CHAPTER 689' to identify the bill in the official session laws.
Updated the approval date from the generic 'Approved' to the specific date 'Approved May 2, 2025'.
Floor votes · Senate Feb 17, 2025 · House of Delegates Jan 31, 2025
How they voted
39–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 40
Feb 17, 2025
D
Democratic21
100% Yea
R
Republican19
94% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
45
Key actions
17
Committee
11
Amendments
4
May 2, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 689 (Effective 07/01/25)
executive
Apr 2, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Apr 2, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed in enrolled form (64-Y 31-N)
lower
Apr 2, 2025
Vetoed
House rejected Governor's recommendation (26-Y 67-N)
lower
Mar 24, 2025
Vetoed
Governor's recommendation received by House
executive
Mar 10, 2025
Upper · Passed
Signed by President
upper
Mar 7, 2025
Lower · Passed
Signed by Speaker
lower
Mar 7, 2025
Lower · Passed
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1609ER)
lower
Feb 19, 2025
Lower · Passed
Senate Amendment agreed to by House (85-Y 9-N)
lower
Feb 18, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate with amendment (23-Y 16-N)
upper
Feb 18, 2025
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended
upper
Feb 18, 2025
Upper · Passed
Finance and Appropriations Amendment agreed to
upper
Feb 18, 2025
Introduced
Reading of amendment waived
upper
Feb 17, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Feb 14, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (10-Y 3-N)
upper
Feb 10, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported from Commerce and Labor and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)
upper
Feb 6, 2025
Committee
Rereferred from Education and Health to Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 3, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Jan 31, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (84-Y 11-N)
lower
Jan 27, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported from Appropriations (20-Y 2-N)
lower
Jan 24, 2025
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 17, 2025
Committee
Assigned Approps sub: Health & Human Resources
lower
Jan 16, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute and referred to Appropriations (17-Y 5-N)
lower
Jan 10, 2025
Committee
Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1
lower
Jan 3, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
lower
1 primary · 4 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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