Virginia Senate Bill 1221 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 9-3)
Status: Passed on March 5 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-03-05 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0219)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Telemedicine services; coverage. Requires insurers, corporations, or health maintenance organizations to cover medically necessary remote patient monitoring services as part of their coverage of telemedicine services to the full extent that these services are available. The bill defines remote patient monitoring services as the delivery of home health services using telecommunications technology to enhance the delivery of home health care, including monitoring of clinical patient data such as weight, blood pressure, pulse, pulse oximetry, blood glucose, and other condition-specific data; medication adherence monitoring; and interactive video conferencing with or without digital image upload. The bill requires the Board of Medical Assistance Services to include in the state plan for medical assistance services a provision for the payment of medical assistance for medically necessary health care services provided through telemedicine services. This bill is identical to HB 1970.

Telemedicine services; payment and coverage of services.

Sen. Benton Chafin [R]	Sen. Amanda Chase [R]	Sen. Barbara Favola [D]	Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]
Sen. Charles Carrico [R]	Sen. John Cosgrove [R]	Sen. Bill DeSteph [R]	Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant [R]
Sen. Monty Mason [D]	Sen. Bryce Reeves [R]	Sen. Glen Sturtevant [R]	Sen. Frank Wagner [R]

2019-02-13 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 98 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-12 - House - House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-30 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-24 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 1-N) (Y: 14 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-05		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0219)
2019-03-05		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 219 (effective 7/1/19)
2019-02-20		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
2019-02-20	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 20, 2019
2019-02-19	Senate	Signed by President
2019-02-18	House	Signed by Speaker
2019-02-18	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1221ER)
2019-02-18	Senate	Enrolled
2019-02-13	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
2019-02-13	House	Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
2019-02-13	House	Read third time
2019-02-12	House	Read second time
2019-02-12	House	Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 0-N)
2019-02-06	House	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
2019-02-06	House	Read first time
2019-02-06	House	Placed on Calendar
2019-02-01	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2019-01-31	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1221S1
2019-01-31	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 19105327D-S1
2019-01-31	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2019-01-31	Senate	Read second time
2019-01-30	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2019-01-29	Senate	Reported from Finance (16-Y 0-N)
2019-01-24	Senate	Rereferred to Finance
2019-01-24	Senate	Incorporates SB1124 (Favola)
2019-01-24	Senate	Committee substitute printed 19105327D-S1
2019-01-24	Senate	Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 1-N)
2019-01-11	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
2019-01-04	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2019-01-04	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101469D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
32	1	325	(n/a)	See Bill Text
38	2	3418.16	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	2901	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	2903	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1221
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1221+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1221S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1221ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0219+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S04V0104+SB1221
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S05V0136+SB1221
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0248SB1221+SB1221
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0286SB1221+SB1221
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H12V0153+SB1221
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV2702+SB1221