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VA SB693
Bill
Status
3/11/2026
Primary Sponsor
Emily Brewer
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AI Summary
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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
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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
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Directs the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance to study insurers' use of consumer credit information in motor vehicle insurance underwriting
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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
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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