Virginia Senate Bill 1270 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 14 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-02-09 - Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 7-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Admission of incapacitated persons pursuant to advance directive or by guardian; transportation; pilot program. Provides that when the employee or designee of a local community services board who is conducting the evaluation of an individual required for the issuance of a temporary detention order into a facility for the treatment of mental illness and finds that the individual (i) has a mental illness, (ii) needs treatment in such a facility, (iii) lacks the capacity to consent to admission to the facility, and (iv) has designated an agent or has a guardian who has the authority to consent to the individual's admission, the evaluator shall contact the agent or guardian and determine whether the agent or guardian authorizes the person's admission to such a facility. If the agent or guardian authorizes the person's admission, the evaluator shall request the magistrate to issue a transportation order providing for the transport of the person to the facility by law enforcement or an alternative transportation provider. The bill also authorizes such employee or designee of a local community services board to be a capacity reviewer for purposes of determining whether a person who has executed an advance directive is incapable of making an informed decision in regard to mental health care, including his admission to a facility for the treatment of mental illness. Current law allows only a licensed physician or a clinical psychologist to act as a capacity reviewer. The provisions of the bill only apply in those localities in which the State Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services has established a pilot program. The bill provides that any pilot program established by the Board shall commence on July 1, 2016, and that the Board shall report on the implementation and effectiveness of the pilot program no later than November 30, 2017. The provisions of the bill expire on July 1, 2018.

Admission of incapacitated persons pursuant to advance directive, etc.; transportation order.

Sen. Creigh Deeds [D]

2015-02-09 - Senate - Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 7-N) (Y: 6 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-09	Senate	Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 7-N)
2015-02-09	Senate	Committee substitute printed to Web only 15104577D-S1
2015-01-14	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2015-01-14	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15103453D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
37	2	810.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	2982	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+SB1270
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB1270+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB1270S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+S03V0173+SB1270