Medicaid; estate recoveries.
Summary
Department of Medical Assistance Services; Medicaid estate recoveries. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services (the Department) to limit the operation of its estate recovery program to the recovery of only federally required costs. The bill directs the Department to make information on estate recovery available on its website in multiple languages. The bill directs the Department to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2026
Committee Review
Feb 2026
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2026
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 13, 2026
Last action Mar 4, 2026
Floor votes · House of Delegates Feb 9, 2026
How they voted
75–11
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 88
Feb 9, 2026
D
Democratic53
98% Yea
R
Republican35
65% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
15
Key actions
4
Committee
7
Feb 26, 2026
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 24, 2026
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Health
upper
Feb 10, 2026
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Feb 9, 2026
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (87-Y 11-N 0-A)
lower
Feb 3, 2026
Lower · Passed
Reported from Health and Human Services (18-Y 4-N)
lower
Jan 29, 2026
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting and referring to Appropriations (7-Y 1-N)
lower
Jan 23, 2026
Committee
Assigned sub: Social Services
lower
Jan 13, 2026
Committee
Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
lower
1 primary · 9 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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