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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>76518</law_id><section_number>38.2-5604</section_number><catch_line>Health savings accounts exempt from claims</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="38.2">Insurance</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="56">The Virginia Health Savings Account Plan</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> As used in this section, &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">health savings account</span>&#x201D; means a <span class="dictionary">health savings account</span> or medical savings account authorized under &#xA7; 220 or 223 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time. <a id="paragraph-274698" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-5604/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Notwithstanding any provision of <span class="dictionary">law</span> to the contrary, the rights of a participant or beneficiary of a <span class="dictionary">health savings account</span> to hold or to receive moneys paid into or out of, the <span class="dictionary">assets</span> of, and the income of the <span class="dictionary">health savings account</span>: <a id="paragraph-274699" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-5604/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Shall be exempt from <span class="dictionary">creditor</span> process; <a id="paragraph-274700" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-5604/#B1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Shall not be liable to <span class="dictionary">attachment</span>, <span class="dictionary">garnishment</span>, or other process; and <a id="paragraph-274701" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-5604/#B2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Shall not be seized, taken, appropriated, or applied by any legal or <span class="dictionary">equitable</span> process or operation of <span class="dictionary">law</span> to pay any debt or liability of the participant or beneficiary of the account. <a id="paragraph-274702" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-5604/#B3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2010, c. 595.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
