Virginia Senate Bill 569 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: Engrossed on January 30 2020 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-12-04 - Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions
Pending: House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; Department of State Police; mobile applications; mental health and public safety. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) to develop or obtain a mental health mobile application to facilitate the provision of crisis intervention services by licensed clinicians to individuals in the Commonwealth through calls, texts, and online chat portals. The bill requires the mobile application to be integrated with the crisis intervention phone hotline established as part of System Transformation Excellence and Performance (STEP-VA). The Secretary of Health and Human Resources is directed to promote, market, and advertise the use of such application using existing resources. Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; Department of State Police; mobile applications; mental health and public safety. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) to develop or obtain a mental health mobile application to facilitate the provision of crisis intervention services by licensed clinicians to individuals in the Commonwealth through calls, texts, and online chat portals. The bill requires the mobile application to be integrated with the crisis intervention phone hotline established as part of System Transformation Excellence and Performance (STEP-VA). The Secretary of Health and Human Resources is directed to promote, market, and advertise the use of such application using existing resources. The bill also requires the Department of State Police, in coordination with the Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center, to (i) develop or obtain a public safety mobile application to enable individuals in the Commonwealth to furnish confidential tips to the Department of State Police through text, audio, images, or video concerning a suspected, anticipated, or completed criminal violation or a school-related safety concern and (ii) develop a referral system to ensure that such confidential tips are referred to the appropriate law-enforcement agency, school board, threat assessment team, or other relevant entity. The Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security is directed to promote, market, and advertise the use of such application using existing resources. The provisions of the bill related to an application developed by DBHDS have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2021. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.

DBHDS and VSP; mobile applications, mental health and public safety.

Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant [R]

Sen. George Barker [D]

Sen. Monty Mason [D]

2020-01-31 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-28 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-16 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-12-04	House	Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions
2020-02-25	House	Continued to 2021 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
2020-02-17	House	Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2021 by voice vote
2020-02-13	House	Assigned HWI sub: Behavioral Health
2020-02-13	House	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
2020-02-13	House	Read first time
2020-02-13	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-01-31	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2020-01-30	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB569S1
2020-01-30	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 20106691D-S1
2020-01-30	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2020-01-30	Senate	Committee amendment rejected
2020-01-30	Senate	Read second time
2020-01-29	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2020-01-28	Senate	Committee substitute printed 20106691D-S1
2020-01-28	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
2020-01-16	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2020-01-16	Senate	Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
2020-01-07	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2020-01-07	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101473D

SB569 (Carry Over) 2020-02-25 - Continued to 2021 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
37	2	312.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+sum+SB569
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+SB569+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+SB569S1+hil
Amendment	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+amd+SB569AS
Amendment	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+amd+SB569ASR
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+SB569F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+SB569FS1122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+S04C0032+SB0569
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+S05C0060+SB0569
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+SC0232SB0569+SB0569
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+SC0249SB0569+SB0569