SB1186
Health insurance; coverage for donor human milk, penalty.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Donor human milk banks; health insurance; coverage for donor human milk; penalty.
Prohibits any person from establishing or operating a donor human milk bank, as defined in the bill, without first obtaining a license from the State Health Commissioner and makes it a Class 6 felony for any person to establish or operate a donor human milk bank in the Commonwealth without ... (More) obtaining such license. The bill also establishes requirements, policies, and procedures, for the operation and administration of licensed human donor milk banks, including procedures relating to disciplinary actions, application fees, and inspections and interviews related to such donor human milk banks. The bill directs (i) the State Board of Health to establish a regulatory and statutory scheme for the licensure and regulation of donor human milk banks operating or doing business in the Commonwealth and (ii) the Commissioner to implement and enforce numerous regulations relating to the issuance, renewal, denial, suspension, and revocation of such licenses. The bill requires (a) health insurers, corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for expenses and (b) the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment of medical assistance services incurred in the provision of pasteurized donor human milk for any infant that is younger than the age of six months and who satisfies certain criteria enumerated in the bill. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/08/2025 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104489D
- 01/08/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/10/2025 - Senate: Impact statement from VCSC (SB1186)
- 01/21/2025 - Senate: Assigned Education sub: Health
- 01/23/2025 - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 01/23/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25105569D-S1
- 01/24/2025 - Senate: Impact statement from VCSC (SB1186)
- 01/27/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1186)
- 01/29/2025 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25106402D-S2
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Impact statement from VCSC (SB1186)
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Read second time
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Education and Health Substitute rejected
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/2025 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/06/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/06/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
- 02/06/2025 - House: Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1
- 02/10/2025 - House: Placed on Labor and Commerce Agenda
- 02/11/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1186)
- 02/11/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/2025 - House: Placed on Labor and Commerce Agenda
- 02/12/2025 - Senate: Impact statement from VCSC (SB1186)
- 02/13/2025 - House: Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute and referred to Appropriations (20-Y 1-N)
- 02/13/2025 - House: Committee substitute printed 25107090D-H1
- 02/13/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/18/2025 - House: Left in Appropriations
