Health and Human Services

Thursday, January 22, 2026·31m·▶ Watch / Listen

The Virginia Health and Human Services Committee advanced thirteen bills on topics ranging from contraception rights to adult adoptee birth certificate access, with the contraception bill drawing the hearing's sharpest divide — passing 13 to 7 after a 6 to 3 subcommittee recommendation. Most other bills passed with little or no opposition.

Key Actions

·HB556 – State Registrar; Divorce/Annulment InformationNo Vote

+ 7 more actions

Controversies

Whether HB603 would restrict policymaker access to the Virginia All-Payer Claims Database

Delegate Waxman argued the bill might make the database 'so restrictive that we will not be able to benefit from that database any longer,' given that VHI was created to gather data for policymakers to make better policy decisions. Delegate Willett directly disagreed, stating 'No, actually the opposite,' and characterizing the bill as giving VHI more flexibility by aligning Virginia law with evolved federal standards.

+ 1 more controversy

Notable Quotes

“Good morning. Welcome. Welcome to the Health Human Services Committee. Your chair, Delegate Rodney Willett. Thank you for being with us. We will be hearing bills today. We're into the meat of the matter now. We also will have the Health Professions Subcommittee follow immediately after this. We do. Several of us have an Appropriations meeting at 10am so there will be a very quick transition from this full committee meeting to the subcommittee meeting. So just to put that on everyone's radar. And with that, we will. Clerk will call the roll. Close clerk and close the rol. Excellent. And we've got. I”
Delegate Willett — Delegate Willett, as both chair and patron of HB603, was explaining to the full committee why Virginia's All-Payer Claims Database law needed to be updated to align with federal health plan transparency requirements.

+ 4 more quotes

Votes

Refer HB556 to Courts of JusticePassed

Report HB603Passed

Report HB817Passed

Report HB6Passed

Adopt amendment to HB222Passed

Report HB222 as amendedPassed

Incorporate HB664 into HB301Passed

Adopt substitute for HB301Passed

Report HB301 with substitutePassed

Report HB335 and refer to AppropriationsPassed

Report HB373Passed

Report HB376 and refer to AppropriationsPassed

Report HB380Passed

Adopt substitute for HB381Passed

Report HB381 with substitutePassed

Unlock the full summary

Subscribe to see all key actions, controversies, quotes, and what's next.

TranscriptPreview

Good morning. Welcome. Welcome to the Health Human Services Committee. Your chair, Delegate Rodney Willett. Thank you for being with us. We will be hearing bills today. We're into the meat of the matter now. We also will have the Health Professions Subcommittee follow immediately after this. We do. Several of us have an Appropriations meeting at 10am so there will be a very quick transition from this full committee meeting to the subcommittee meeting. So just to put that on everyone's radar. And with that, we will. Clerk will call the roll. Close clerk and close the rol. Excellent. And we've got. I know a few members are going to be joining us. We're now at the time. We're overlapping presentations. We'll get a few more folks in here shortly. I did want to pause before we get into the bills. We have a new member of our committee and I'd love for Delick McGuire just to give us a word. And Delick McGuire we're putting on the spot here. We've been telling folks where we're from and also sharing a healthy living tip. So we're really putting you on the spotlight here. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning,…

Subscribe to unlock the full transcript, summary, and search across all Virginia committee hearings.