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VA HB328

Bill

Status

Engrossed

2/16/2026

Primary Sponsor

Richard Sullivan

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Origin

House of Delegates

2026 Regular Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Directs Virginia's Bureau of Insurance to select a new essential health benefits benchmark plan for the 2028 plan year (or soonest year permitted by CMS) that expands covered benefits beyond the current plan

  • Adds required coverage for doula care services, infertility treatment including up to three lifetime cycles of assisted reproductive technology, fertility preservation procedures, and embryo transfer

  • Requires coverage for hearing aids (up to $1,500 per ear every 24 months) for all ages, expanded from the current requirement covering only children 18 and younger

  • Mandates coverage for PANDAS/PANS diagnosis and treatment, pasteurized donor human breast milk, and polycystic ovary syndrome treatment

  • Exempts individual and small group market plans from certain hearing aid and PANDAS/PANS coverage mandates, with those benefits instead incorporated into the essential health benefits benchmark plan to avoid state-funded defrayal requirements

Legislative Description

Health insurance; essential health benefits benchmark plan selection.

Last Action

Senate substitute agreed to by House (68-Y 30-N 0-A)

3/12/2026

Committee Referrals

Finance and Appropriations3/2/2026
Commerce and Labor2/18/2026
Appropriations: Health & Human Resources2/6/2026
Appropriations1/29/2026
Labor and Commerce: Subcommittee #11/19/2026
Labor and Commerce1/11/2026

Full Bill Text

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