Virginia Senate Bill 1488 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on March 19 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-03-19 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; causes of high state hospital census; report. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a stakeholder work group to examine the causes of the high census at the Commonwealth's state hospitals for individuals with mental illness, including (i) the impact on such census of the practice of conducting evaluations of individuals who are the subject of an emergency custody order in hospital emergency departments, the treatment needs of individuals with complex medical conditions, the treatment needs of individuals who are under the influence of alcohol or other controlled substances, and the need to ensure that individuals receive treatment in the most appropriate setting to meet their physical and behavioral health care needs and (ii) the potential impact on such census of extending the time frame during which an emergency custody order remains valid, revising security requirements to allow custody of a person who is the subject of an emergency custody order to be transferred from law enforcement to a hospital emergency department, diverting individuals who are the subject of an emergency custody order from hospital emergency departments to other more appropriate locations for medical and psychological evaluations, and preventing unnecessary use of hospital emergency department resources by improving the efficiency of the evaluation process. The work group shall analyze how such issues affect both adults and children. The work group shall develop recommendations for both long-term and short-term solutions to the high census at the Commonwealth's state hospitals for individuals with mental illness and shall report such recommendations to the Chairmen of the Joint Subcommittee to Study Mental Health Services in the Commonwealth in the Twenty-First Century, the House Committee on Appropriations, the House Committee for Courts of Justice, the Senate Committee on Finance, and the Senate Committee for Courts of Justice by November 1, 2019.

State hospital for individuals w/ mental illness; SHHR to examine cause of high census at hospital.

Sen. Emmett Hanger [R]

Sen. Creigh Deeds [D]

2019-02-20 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-18 - House - House: Reported from Rules (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-15 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 0-N) (Y: 4 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-23 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-18 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-17 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-17 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-19		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609)
2019-03-19		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 609 (effective 7/1/19)
2019-03-04		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
2019-03-04	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
2019-02-23	House	Signed by Speaker
2019-02-23	Senate	Signed by President
2019-02-23	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1488ER)
2019-02-23	Senate	Enrolled
2019-02-20	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
2019-02-20	House	Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
2019-02-20	House	Read third time
2019-02-19	House	Read second time
2019-02-18	House	Reported from Rules (16-Y 0-N)
2019-02-15	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 0-N)
2019-02-11	House	Assigned Rules sub: Subcommittee #1
2019-01-29	House	Referred to Committee on Rules
2019-01-29	House	Read first time
2019-01-29	House	Placed on Calendar
2019-01-23	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2019-01-22	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1488S1
2019-01-22	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 19104970D-S1
2019-01-22	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2019-01-22	Senate	Read second time
2019-01-21	Senate	Passed by for the day
2019-01-18	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2019-01-17	Senate	Committee substitute printed 19104970D-S1
2019-01-17	Senate	Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
2019-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2019-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102676D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1488
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1488+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1488S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1488ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0609+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S04V0067+SB1488
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0087SB1488+SB1488
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S04V0079+SB1488
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0141SB1488+SB1488
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H2001V0066+SB1488
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H20V0147+SB1488
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV3129+SB1488