Virginia House Bill 1661 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Vetoed on May 2 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-05-02 - Governor: Vetoed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Conference Sub) [HTML]

Association health benefit plans established by associations of employers; health benefit plans for members of certain agricultural organizations. Authorizes a trust, as a benefits consortium, to sell health benefits plans to members of a sponsoring association, which is a nonstock corporation that operates as a nonprofit agricultural organization and is created primarily to promote programs for the development of rural communities and the economic stability and sustainability of farmers in the Commonwealth. The bill provides that the trust is subject to the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and U.S. Department of Labor regulations applicable to multiple employer welfare arrangements and to the authority of the U.S. Department of Labor to enforce such law and regulations. The bill requires the trust to operate as a nonprofit voluntary employee beneficiary association. The bill (i) prohibits a self-funded multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) from issuing health benefit plans in the Commonwealth until it has obtained a license from the State Corporation Commission; (ii) provides that health benefit plans issued by a self-funded MEWA shall be subject to taxes and maintenance assessments levied upon insurance companies; (iii) provides that health benefit plans issued by a self-funded MEWA are subject to protections of and other provisions of the Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association; (iv) makes domestic self-funded MEWAs subject to all financial and solvency requirements imposed by provisions of Title 38.2 on domestic insurers unless domestic self-funded MEWAs are otherwise specifically exempted; and (v) provides that health benefit plans issued by a self-funded MEWA shall be exempt from all statutory requirements relating to insurance premium rates, policy forms, and policy cancellation and nonrenewal. The bill provides that the sponsoring association shall not, by virtue of its sponsorship of the benefits consortium or any benefits plan, be subject to the insurance laws of the Commonwealth or the tax levied on insurance companies pursuant to ?§58.1-2501.

Benefits consortium; formation by a sponsoring association as a nonprofit agricultural organization.

Sen. Chris Head [R]

2019-04-03 - House - House: VOTE: REJECTED (36-Y 62-N) (Y: 36 N: 62 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2019-02-19 - House - House: VOTE: ADOPTION (58-Y 41-N) (Y: 58 N: 41 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-15 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (35-Y 4-N) (Y: 35 N: 4 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-14 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-13 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance (11-Y 3-N) (Y: 11 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-05 - House - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (57-Y 41-N 1-A) (Y: 57 N: 41 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2019-01-31 - House - House: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (14-Y 6-N) (Y: 14 N: 6 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-17 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (4-Y 3-N) (Y: 4 N: 3 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-05-02		Governor: Vetoed by Governor
2019-04-03		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, May 3, 2019
2019-04-03	House	Communicated to Governor
2019-04-03	House	VOTE: REJECTED (36-Y 62-N)
2019-04-03	House	House rejected Governor's recommendation (36-Y 62-N)
2019-04-03	House	Placed on Calendar
2019-03-26	House	Governor's substitute printed 19107828D-H2
2019-03-26	House	Governor's recommendation received by House
2019-03-04		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
2019-03-04	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
2019-02-22	Senate	Signed by President
2019-02-22	House	Signed by Speaker
2019-02-22	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1661ER)
2019-02-22	House	Enrolled
2019-02-19	House	VOTE: ADOPTION (58-Y 41-N)
2019-02-19	House	Senate substitute agreed to by House 19106634D-S1 (58-Y 41-N)
2019-02-19	House	Placed on Calendar
2019-02-15	Senate	Passed Senate with substitute (35-Y 4-N)
2019-02-15	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1661S1
2019-02-15	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 19106634D-S1
2019-02-15	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2019-02-15	Senate	Read third time
2019-02-14	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2019-02-13	Senate	Reported from Finance (11-Y 3-N)
2019-02-11	Senate	Rereferred to Finance
2019-02-11	Senate	Committee substitute printed 19106634D-S1
2019-02-11	Senate	Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
2019-02-06	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2019-02-06	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2019-02-05	House	VOTE: PASSAGE (57-Y 41-N 1-A)
2019-02-05	House	Read third time and passed House (57-Y 41-N 1-A)
2019-02-04	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1661H1
2019-02-04	House	Committee substitute agreed to 19106118D-H1
2019-02-04	House	Read second time
2019-02-03	House	Read first time
2019-01-31	House	Committee substitute printed 19106118D-H1
2019-01-31	House	Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (14-Y 6-N)
2019-01-17	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (4-Y 3-N)
2019-01-10	House	Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #1
2018-12-03	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2018-12-03	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100141D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
38	2	3437.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
38	2	3437.5	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1661
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1661+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1661H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1661S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1661ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1661H2+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H1401V0004+HB1661
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H14V0070+HB1661
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV2451+HB1661
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S02V0167+HB1661
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S05V0339+HB1661
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0662HB1661+HB1661
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0712HB1661+HB1661
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV3040+HB1661
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV3375+HB1661