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VA SB693

Bill

Status

Enrolled

3/11/2026

Primary Sponsor

Emily Brewer

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Origin

Senate

2026 Regular Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Prohibits motor vehicle insurers from refusing coverage, limiting coverage, or charging different rates based solely on an individual's consumer credit information or credit-based insurance score

  • Adds this protection to Virginia's existing unfair discrimination statute (§ 38.2-508), which already prohibits discrimination based on factors like blindness, geographic location, domestic violence victim status, and living organ donor status

  • Directs the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance to study insurers' use of consumer credit information in motor vehicle insurance underwriting

  • Requires the study to examine whether current statutes unfairly burden policyholders and whether credit-based factors are appropriate compared to driving records and other risk-related factors

  • Bureau must submit findings and recommendations to the House Committee on Labor and Commerce and Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor by October 1, 2027

Legislative Description

Motor vehicle insurance; unfair discrimination based on individual's consumer credit info., report.

Last Action

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

3/14/2026

Committee Referrals

Labor and Commerce: Subcommittee #12/24/2026
Labor and Commerce2/4/2026
Commerce and Labor1/14/2026

Full Bill Text

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