Health And Human Resources Subcommittee

Friday, February 6, 2026·1h 34m·▶ Watch / Listen

The Health and Human Resources Subcommittee advanced eight bills, tabled two, and received alarming informational presentations on child welfare failures and federal HR1 fiscal shocks — including a potential $364 million annual hit to Virginia's SNAP program and Medicaid cost pressures from work requirements, GLP-1 drug rebate uncertainty, and Mobile Crisis billing described as 'an unacceptable level of abuse.'

Key Actions

·SNAP / HR1 – Federal Cost Shift and Error Rate PenaltyNo Vote

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Controversies

SNAP error rate and governor's budget assumption

Delegate Willett pressed Carl Ayers to confirm whether the governor's introduced budget assumed a 0% or 6% SNAP error rate; Ayers confirmed it assumes no error rate — a significant gap given Virginia's current 11.5% rate and a potential $270 million annual penalty exposure under HR1.

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Notable Quotes

“Virginia's current error rate is 11.5%. So just based on those numbers, it will cost Virginia $270 million a year on top of the $94 million a year to continue administering the SNAP program from the end of it.”
Carl Ayers, Department of Social Services — Ayers was explaining the combined fiscal impact of HR1's SNAP administrative cost shift and error rate penalty structure on Virginia's budget.

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Votes

Report HB 483 – Prescription Drug Affordability BoardPassed

Report HB 470 – DMAS Consumer-Directed Services Employer of RecordPassed

Gently lay on the table HB 823 – DD Waiver Direct Support Professional in Acute CarePassed

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TranscriptPreview

It. Delegate Rodney Willett, your chair for the subcommittee for Health and Human Resources. We're delighted to have you here this afternoon. And we will take attendance. And we've got a quorum. I wanted to make just a brief announcement at the beginning. I know we've got a lot of folks in the audience. We actually have some folks online as well. All of the bills, 100% of the bills we're hearing today have been heard before. They were heard in the corresponding committees and then reported to us. So I make that point to say that we have had hearing. We've had public testimony on those. We even have some written testimony on those. Today we are solely focused on the appropriation side, the money side of the equation. So we will not take additional testimony. I just wanted to flag that. With that, I'm going to jump right into our agenda. We first up we have HB 1245 and the patron has asked us to strike that bill. So moved. Second, we have a motion that's been properly seconded to strike HB 1245 and that will go on the board. Okay. And by vote of 7 to nothing,…

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