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VA HB60

Bill

Status

Enrolled

3/3/2026

Primary Sponsor

Jeion Ward

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Origin

House of Delegates

2026 Regular Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Prohibits life and health insurers from refusing coverage, limiting coverage, or charging higher rates to individuals solely because they have received pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention
  • Adds PrEP users to Virginia's existing unfair discrimination protections in insurance, which already cover categories including blindness, physical impairments, domestic violence victims, and living organ donors
  • Requires that any differential treatment of PrEP users must be based on additional actuarial risks, not merely on the fact of having received the preventive medication
  • Amends § 38.2-508 of the Code of Virginia governing unfair discrimination in insurance practices

Legislative Description

Life or health insurances; unfair discrimination, pre-exposure prophylaxis for prevention of HIV.

Last Action

Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026

3/10/2026

Committee Referrals

Commerce and Labor1/29/2026
Labor and Commerce: Subcommittee #11/15/2026
Labor and Commerce12/30/2025

Full Bill Text

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