HB 675 Virginia House of Delegates · 2022 Regular Session

Health insurance; tobacco surcharge.

Summary

Health insurance; tobacco surcharge. Eliminates the authority of a health carrier to vary its premium rates based on tobacco use. Under current law, a health carrier may charge premium rates up to 1.5 times higher for a tobacco user than for a nonuser. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Health Care, and the provisions of the bill shall apply to health benefit plans providing individual or small group health insurance coverage beginning on January 1, 2023. This bill is identical to SB 422.

Bill status vetoed 4 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2022

Committee Review

Feb 2022

House of Delegates Passage

Feb 2022

Senate Passage

Feb 2022

Vetoed

Apr 2022

Introduced Jan 11, 2022 Vetoed Apr 11, 2022

Floor votes · Senate Feb 23, 2022 · House of Delegates Feb 7, 2022

How they voted

33–0

Passed

Total votes 33

Feb 23, 2022

D Democratic17

17 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican16

16 Yea

100% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Amendments

Apr 27, 2022

Vetoed

House sustained Governor's veto (48-Y 52-N)

lower

Apr 11, 2022

Vetoed

Vetoed by Governor

executive

Feb 24, 2022

Upper · Passed

Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)

upper

Feb 23, 2022

Senate · Passed

Senate Vote: pass (33-0)

senate

Feb 21, 2022

Upper · Passed

Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)

upper

Feb 8, 2022

Committee

Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor

upper

Feb 7, 2022

Lower · Passed

Read third time and passed House (72-Y 27-N)

lower

Feb 4, 2022

Introduced

Engrossed by House as amended HB675E

lower

Feb 4, 2022

Lower · Passed

Committee amendment agreed to

lower

Feb 2, 2022

Lower · Passed

House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered

lower

Feb 1, 2022

Lower · Passed

Reported from Commerce and Energy with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N)

lower

Jan 27, 2022

Lower · Passed

Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (10-Y 0-N)

lower

Jan 20, 2022

Committee

Assigned sub: Subcommittee #2

lower

Jan 11, 2022

Committee

Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy

lower

Jan 11, 2022

Introduced

Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101246D

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors