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2013 SESSION

Convened January 9, 2013
Adjourned sine die February 23, 2013
Reconvened April 3, 2013
Adjourned sine die April 3, 2013


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(P) Passed (F) Failed (V) Vetoed (I) Incoporated into other legislation
(C) Carried over from 2012 Session (CD) Carried over but died in committee on or before 11/29/2012
Accident and sickness insurance, individual; open enrollment program. Amending §§ 32.1-352, 38.2-508, 38.2-3432.3, 38.2-3444, 38.2-4229.1, and 58.1-2501; repealing § 38.2-4216.1. (Patron-Kilgore, HB 1784 (Chapter 210); Watkins, SB 780 (Chapter 136))
Commercial insurance policies; only first named insured is required to be given notice of cancellation or nonrenewal. Amending § 38.2-231. (Patron-Rust, HB 1528 (Chapter 13))
Deeds; affidavit by an attorney, settlement agent, or title insurance company involved in transaction may be used in correcting errors. Adding § 55-109.2. (Patron-Iaquinto, HB 280 (CD))
Dental and optometric services plans; applicability of certain provisions. Amending § 38.2-4509. (Patron-Wagner, SB 1059 (Chapter 473))
Dental or optometric services plans; requirement for nonstock corporation that offer or administer. Amending § 38.2-4504. (Patron-Habeeb, HB 1510 (Chapter 11))
Divorce; temporary orders concerning life insurance. Amending § 20-103. (Patron-Iaquinto, HB 1549 (F))
Fire insurance; clarifies that excess insurance may be written on an endorsement as well as on a separate policy. Amending § 38.2-2107. (Patron-Rust, HB 1527 (Chapter 12))
Health benefit exchange; regulation of navigators, definition of “other affordable care options”, report. Adding §§ 38.2-3447 and 38.2-3448. (Patron-O’Bannon, HB 2246 (Chapter 595))
Health benefit exchange; regulation of navigators, report. Adding §§ 38.2-3447 and 38.2-3448. (Patron-Puckett, SB 1261 (Chapter 791))
Health care providers; submitting health insurance claims. Adding § 8.01-27.5. (Patron-McEachin, SB 707 (Chapter 700))
Health insurance; authorizes State Corporation Commission to establish state plan management partnership exchange. Amending §§ 32.1-16, 32.1-137.2, 32.1-321.1, 38.2-4214, 38.2-4319, 38.2-4509, and 63.2-206; adding §§ 38.2-316.1 and 38.2-326. Emergency. (Patron-Herring, SB 1084 (I) See SB922)
Health insurance; contraception coverage. (Patron-Marshall, R.G., HB 1417 (F))
Health insurance; contraception coverage by insurers, corporations, or health maintenance organizations providing contracts and policies. (Patron-Marshall, R.G., HB 1314 (F))
Health insurance; contraception coverage provided only at request of subscriber or enrollee. (Patron-Marshall, R.G., HB 1315 (F))
Health insurance; coverage for certain low protein foods for individuals diagnosed as having phenylketonuria. Amending § 38.2-4319; adding § 38.2-3418.18. (Patron-Edwards, SB 867 (F))
Health insurance; credits for retired school division employees. Amending §§ 51.1-1400 and 51.1-1401. (Patron-McQuinn, HB 2289 (F))
Health insurance; credits for retired school division employees. Amending § 51.1-1401. (Patron-Marsden, SB 787 (F))
Health insurance; diagnostic procedures resulting from preventive care or screening. Adding § 38.2-3442.1. (Patron-Filler-Corn, HB 705 (CD))
Health insurance; gives local governments option of having all of their employees and retirees eligible to participate in state employee health insurance plan. Amending § 2.2-1204. (Patron-Yost, HB 1356 (F); Barker, SB 1367 (F))
Health insurance; installment payments of cost-sharing obligations associated with prescriptions. Amending §§ 38.2-4214, 38.2-4319, and 38.2-4509; adding §§ 38.2-3447 through 38.2-3452. (Patron-Peace, HB 2030 (F))
Health insurance; mandated coverage for enteral formulas necessitated by short bowel syndrome. Amending § 38.2-4319; adding § 38.2-3418.18. (Patron-Edwards, SB 866 (F))
Health insurance; modification of prescription drug coverage. Amending § 38.2-4509; adding § 38.2-3407.14:1. (Patron-Puller, SB 947 (I) See SB945)
Health insurance; program for local government employees and other political subdivisions of State. Amending §§ 2.2-1204, 15.2-1512.1, and 23-284. (Patron-Watkins, SB 1089 (Chapter 687))
Health insurance; prohibits health carrier from imposing cost-sharing requirements with respect to any diagnostic service, test, etc. Adding § 38.2-3442.1. (Patron-Filler-Corn, HB 2024 (F))
Health insurance; State Corporation Commission, et al., to perform plan management functions for participation in federal health benefit exchange established by Secretary of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, review and approval of premium rates. Amending §§ 32.1-16, 32.1-137.2, 38.2-4214, 38.2-4319, and 38.2-4509; adding §§ 38.2-316.1 and 38.2-326. (Patron-Kilgore, HB 1769 (Chapter 670); Watkins, SB 922 (Chapter 679))
Health insurance; time limit on submitting claims. Amending §§ 38.2-3407.15, 38.2-3503, and 38.2-3536. (Patron-Scott, J.M., HB 980 (CD))
Health insurance reform; revises State’s laws pertaining to regulation and related products in order to be consistent with relevant requirements of federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Amending §§ 38.2-508.1, 38.2-3406.1, 38.2-3407.12, 38.2-3412.1, 38.2-3412.1:01, 38.2-3417, 38.2-3418.8, 38.2-3430.3, 38.2-3431, 38.2-3432.1, 38.2-3432.2, 38.2-3436, 38.2-3438, 38.2-3439, 38.2-3440, 38.2-3442, 38.2-3444, 38.2-3501, 38.2-3503, 38.2-3520, 38.2-3521.1, 38.2-3522.1, 38.2-3523.4, 38.2-3540.2, 38.2-3551, 38.2-4109, 38.2-4214, 38.2-4306, and 38.2-4319; adding §§ 38.2-3447 through 38.2-3454; repealing § 38.2-3433, third enactment of Chapter 788, 2011 Acts, and second enactment of Chapter 882, 2011 Acts. (Patron-Rust, HB 1900 (Chapter 751); Watkins, SB 921 (V))
Health Insurance Reform Commission; established, sunset provision, report. Amending §§ 2.2-2818, 30-58.1, and 38.2-3431; adding §§ 30-339 through 30-346; repealing §§ 2.2-2503, 2.2-2504, and 2.2-2505. (Patron-Byron, HB 2138 (Chapter 709))
Health maintenance organizations; health care plans for health care services to provide coverage for newborn children. Amending §§ 38.2-3411 and 38.2-4319. (Patron-Colgan, SB 1243 (Chapter 653))
Home care organizations; clarifies liability insurance coverage requirements. Amending §§ 32.1-162.9 and 32.1-162.11. (Patron-Head, HB 1445 (Chapter 184))
Hospitals and physicians; processing health insurance claims. Adding §§ 8.01-27.5, 32.1-137.02, and 54.1-2910.02. (Patron-McEachin, SB 650 (CD))
Income tax, state; creates deductions for life, medical, and dental insurance premiums. Amending § 58.1-322. (Patron-Purkey, HB 517 (CD))
Income tax, state; deductions for life, medical, and dental insurance premiums for an individual age 66 or older with certain earned income. Amending § 58.1-322. (Patron-Purkey, HB 518 (CD))
Income tax, state; deductions for prepaid funeral, medical, and dental insurance premiums beginning on or after January 1, 2013, for an individual age 66 or older with certain earned income. Amending § 58.1-322. (Patron-Purkey, HB 2167 (Chapter 88))
Insurance; notice of lapse in coverage for certain life and accident and sickness policies. Amending § 38.2-232. (Patron-Watkins, SB 777 (Chapter 93))
Insurance agents; agent whose license has been revoked, etc., may not be employed by an insurance agent or agency. Amending § 38.2-1822. (Patron-McClellan, HB 1838 (Chapter 212))
Insurance agents; requirements for continuing education. Adding § 38.2-1867.1. (Patron-Rush, HB 1486 (F))
Insurance holding companies; revises requirements to conform to National Association of Insurance Commissioners Insurance Holding Company System Regulatory Act and Insurance Holding Company System Model Regulation. Amending §§ 38.2-1322 through 38.2-1327, 38.2-1329, 38.2-1330, 38.2-1330.1, 38.2-1332, 38.2-1333, 38.2-1334.1, and 38.2-4509; adding §§ 38.2-1332.1, 38.2-1334.3, 38.2-1334.4, and 38.2-1334.5; repealing § 38.2-1331. (Patron-Ware, R.L., HB 2195 (F))
Insurance policies; required to provide notice that policyholder may contact Bureau of Insurance if he is unable to contact or obtain satisfaction from insurer or agent. Amending § 38.2-305. (Patron-Byron, HB 2118 (Chapter 27))
Insurance premiums license tax; technical corrections to facilitate transfer of administration from State Corporation Commission to Department of Taxation. Amending §§ 38.2-4809, 38.2-4809.1, 58.1-3, 58.1-2504, 58.1-2505, 58.1-2507, 58.1-2525, 58.1-2526, and 58.1-2527. (Patron-Byron, HB 2155 (Chapter 29); Newman, SB 1216 (Chapter 163))
Life, Accident, and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association; guidelines for use of logo. Amending § 38.2-1715. (Patron-Reeves, SB 38 (CD))
Long-term care insurance; notice of lapse and reinstatement. Adding § 38.2-5202.2. (Patron-McClellan, HB 1869 (F))
Long-term health care insurance; for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2014, tax credit shall not be allowed if individual claimed federal income tax deduction. Amending § 58.1-322; repealing § 58.1-339.11. (Patron-Jones, HB 2047 (Chapter 801))
Mandated health insurance; benefits not applicable if exceed essential benefits package. Adding § 38.2-3406.3. (Patron-Wagner, SB 518 (CD))
Medical malpractice; amends discovery rule, which triggers running of statute of limitations in cases involving diagnosis of malignant tumor or cancer. Amending § 8.01-243. (Patron-McClellan, HB 1874 (F))
Medical malpractice; expert witness certification, court may conduct an in camera review. Amending §§ 8.01-20.1, 8.01-50.1, and 16.1-83.1. (Patron-Iaquinto, HB 1545 (Chapter 65); Alexander, SB 699 (Chapter 610); Northam, SB 1255 (I) See SB699)
Motor vehicle insurance; assignment of medical expense benefits to assignor’s health care provider. Amending § 38.2-2201. (Patron-Kilgore, HB 1655 (Chapter 75))
Motor vehicle insurance; invalidates assignments of medical expenses benefits provided under motor vehicle liability insurance policy. Amending § 38.2-2201. (Patron-Kilgore, HB 709 (CD); Wagner, SB 516 (CD))
Motor vehicle insurance; prohibits insurers from setting rates on basis of credit history or credit score. Amending §§ 38.2-2212, 38.2-2213, and 38.2-2234. (Patron-Tata, HB 1740 (F))
Nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and assisted living facilities; notice of liability insurance coverage, rights of residents. Amending §§ 32.1-127, 63.2-1805, and 63.2-1808. (Patron-Stanley, SB 750 (Chapter 320))
Nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and assisted living facilities; notice of liability insurance coverage to patients and residents. Amending §§ 32.1-127, 32.1-138, 63.2-1805, and 63.2-1808. (Patron-Stanley, SB 869 (I) See SB750)
Own Risk and Solvency Assessments (ORSA); insurers required to maintain risk management framework. Adding §§ 38.2-1334.3 through 38.2-1334.10. (Patron-Watkins, SB 1057 (F))
Portable electronics insurance; eliminates provision that caps incidental compensation that vendor may provide to its employees or authorized representatives. Amending § 38.2-1878. (Patron-Marshall, D.W., HB 1396 (Chapter 9))
Practitioners of medicine and other healing arts; updates terminology in sections governing licensure, provides for use of electronic communication, surgery by podiatrists, and eliminates Psychiatric Advisory Board. Amending §§ 38.2-5004, 54.1-2409.3, 54.1-2904, 54.1-2913.1, 54.1-2915, 54.1-2930 through 54.1-2933, 54.1-2935, 54.1-2939, 54.1-2949, 54.1-2950, 54.1-2951.1, 54.1-2953, and 54.1-2957.4; repealing §§ 54.1-2905, 54.1-2913, 54.1-2917, 54.1-2924, and 54.1-2928. (Patron-Garrett, SB 950 (Chapter 144))
Property and casualty insurance policies; electronic notices, notification to an insurer of electronic change of address responsibility of named insured. Amending §§ 38.2-231, 38.2-325, 38.2-2113, 38.2-2114, 38.2-2208, and 38.2-2212. (Patron-Hugo, HB 1607 (Chapter 257))
Radiology benefits managers; requires any decision to deny physician’s order for diagnostic radiology test be made by a physician. Amending §§ 32.1-137.10 and 54.1-2903; adding § 38.2-3407.10:1. (Patron-Hope, HB 398 (CD))
Risk management plans; insurance coverage for sheriffs or deputies, limitation on liability. Amending § 2.2-1839. (Patron-Loupassi, HB 1554 (Chapter 555))
Self storage units; establishes procedure for lessors to sell self storage insurance that provides coverage against loss of or damage to items of personal property. Amending § 38.2-1800; adding §§ 38.2-1881 through 38.2-1886. (Patron-Hugo, HB 1731 (Chapter 203))
Settlement payment; notification by insurer required. Adding § 38.2-236. (Patron-Obenshain, SB 984 (Chapter 146))
State partnership health benefit exchange; State Corporation Commission to contract with and enter into memoranda of understanding with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or any other state or federal agency as may be required. Amending §§ 32.1-16, 32.1-137.2, 32.1-321.1, 38.2-4214, 38.2-4319, 38.2-4509, and 63.2-206; adding §§ 38.2-316.1 and 38.2-326. Emergency. (Patron-Hope, HB 1664 (F))
Travel insurance; provides for sale by licensed property and casualty insurance agents or limited lines property and casualty agents. Amending § 38.2-1800; adding §§ 38.2-1881 through 38.2-1884. (Patron-Marshall, D.W., HB 2023 (Chapter 497))
Virginia Condominium Act; casualty insurance for common areas. Amending § 55-79.81. (Patron-Norment, SB 1125 (F))
Virginia Health Benefit Exchange; created, report. Adding §§ 38.2-6400 through 38.2-6415. (Patron-Watkins, SB 496 (CD))
Virginia Health Benefit Exchange; created, report. Amending §§ 38.2-4214, 38.2-4319, and 38.2-4509; adding §§ 38.2-316.1 and 38.2-6400 through 38.2-6416. (Patron-Watkins, SB 924 (F))
Workers’ compensation insurance; experience modification factor. Amending §§ 38.2-1908 and 65.2-821. (Patron-Webert, HB 1572 (F))

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