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Virginia · 2026 Regular Session
HB1398Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team; established, definitions, penalty, report.
Direction
Abortionpersonhood ivfAI label
↓Restricts abortion accessmodel confidence 70%
Establishes a Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team to analyze and prevent fetal deaths (defined to include stillbirths from any cause except voluntary/therapeutic termination of pregnancy), which treats the fetus as a subject of mortality review and data collection equivalent to infants.
"Fetal death" means a fetal death as described in § 32.1-258.1 for which the State Registrar is required to issue a Certificate of Birth Resulting in Stillbirth.
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AbortionotherAI label
↓Restricts abortion accessmodel confidence 60%
Creates a review team focused on decreasing preventable fetal and infant deaths (excluding those from voluntary or therapeutic termination of pregnancy), with duties to recommend programs, training, policy changes, and data collection on causes of fetal deaths.
The purpose of the Team is to decrease the incidence of preventable fetal and infant deaths.
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AbortionexceptionsAI label
=No change to abortion accessmodel confidence 80%
Explicitly excludes review of fetal deaths resulting from voluntary or therapeutic termination of pregnancy from the mortality review team's scope.
This section shall not apply to the review of a fetal death that is the result of a voluntary or therapeutic termination of pregnancy.
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Filed (completed)
Committee (completed)
Passed one chamber
Passed both
Governor
Law
Status: Died (session ended)
Last action
2026-03-09: Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill creates a Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team with explicit focus on fetal deaths (stillbirths), data collection, prevention recommendations, and policy changes to reduce such deaths, which fits abortion/personhood-ivf (fetal personhood via mortality review) and abortion/other as restricting access by elevating fetal status; the explicit carve-out for terminations of pregnancy is noted under exceptions but does not change the overall restrictive direction on fetal deaths. No other listed topics are substantively addressed.
Related bills
HB1398Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team; established, definitions, penalty, report.↑Expands abortion access Passed one chamber
HB328Health insurance; essential health benefits benchmark plan selection.↑Expands abortion access↑Expands abortion access Law
HB531Abortion; born alive infant, treatment and care, penalty.↓Restricts abortion access↓Restricts abortion access Died (session ended)
HB1389Health insurance; coverage for standard fertility preservation procedures.↑Expands abortion access↑Expands abortion access Died (session ended)
Hearings and calendar
2026-02-05 07:30 · Hearing · House Health and Human Services: Behavioral Health Hearing House Committee Room C - 206
2026-02-10 08:30 · Hearing · House Health and Human Services Hearing House Committee Room C - 206
2026-02-11 00:00 · Hearing · House Appropriations: Health & Human Resources Hearing House Appropriations Committee Room - 1200
2026-02-11 00:00 · Hearing · House Appropriations Hearing House Appropriations Committee Room - 1200
2026-02-24 16:00 · Hearing · Senate Education and Health-Health Hearing Senate Room C, Room 311, General Assembly Building
2026-02-26 08:30 · Hearing · Senate Education and Health Hearing Senate Room A, Room 305, General Assembly Building
2026-03-06 19:00 · Hearing · Senate Finance and Appropriations Hearing Senate Finance & Appropriations Room, Room 1300, General Assembl
2026-03-09 19:00 · Hearing · Senate Finance and Appropriations Hearing Senate Finance & Appropriations Room, Room 1300, General Assembl
Votes
Date
Chamber
Motion
Yea-Nay
2026-02-05
H
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) and referring to Appropriations (7-Y 1-N)
7-1
Passed
2026-02-10
H
Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) and referred to Appropriations (21-Y 1-N)
21-1
Passed
2026-02-11
H
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
7-0
Passed
2026-02-11
H
Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
22-0
Passed
2026-02-11
H
Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
22-0
Passed
2026-02-17
H
Read third time and passed House (92-Y 5-N 0-A)
92-5
Passed
2026-02-11
H
Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
22-0
Passed
2026-02-26
S
Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
15-0
Passed
2026-03-09
S
Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)