The Virginia General Assembly - specifically the House of Delegates - is on the brink of doing something historic.
Tomorrow (February 2)the House is scheduled to vote on HB 2467. Sponsored by Del. Tag Greeson and co-sponsored by a bi-partisan group of Delegates including our very own Del. David Bulova along with Del. Tom Rust, Del. Eileen Filler-Corn, Del. Tim Hugo, Del. Mark Keam and others, this legislation would for the first time ever require insurance companies to cover autism treatments and therapies.
There is support in the Senate for similar legislation sponsored by Sen. Janet Howell. But the logjam has often been the House. We can break it tomorrow.
If you live in Virginia, please go to this link - http://conview.state.va.us/whosmy.nsf/main?openform - and find out who your Delegate is. Send him or her a note respectfully requesting that they support HB 2467 when it comes up for a vote. Please do it as soon as you can as the vote may be midday.
The Fairfax City Council, through the passage of resolutions, has repeatedly joined other Virginia jurisdictions in supporting legislation that will help our families and our children while having a minimal impact on insurance costs.
This is the closest that supporters have gotten to having autism reform legislation even come close to becoming law. Together we can make it happen. Kudos to the Virginia Autism Project and folks like Teresa Champion, David and Lynn Miller and Catherine Read for their super efforts.
Let's get even closer to turning this legislation into the law of Virginia by passing HB 2467. Please contact your legislator today.
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