VA SB653 | 2024 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 15 2024 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2024-01-29 - Stricken at request of Patron in Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Summary

State psychiatric hospitals; temporary detention orders; delayed admission to determine medical needs. Allows state psychiatric hospitals to delay admission of an individual under a temporary detention order until the state psychiatric hospital has determined that the individual does not have potentially life-threatening medical needs that require immediate evaluation and treatment that the state psychiatric hospital is incapable of providing. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission and the Behavioral Health Commission.

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Title

State psychiatric hospitals; temporary detention orders, delayed admission to determine med. needs.

Sponsors


Roll Calls

2024-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N) (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

History

DateChamberAction
2024-01-29SenateStricken at request of Patron in Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N)
2024-01-15SenateReferred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2024-01-15SenatePresented and ordered printed 24103979D

Same As/Similar To

HB808 (Similar To) 2024-02-13 - Failed to pass in House

Subjects


Code Citations

ChapterArticleSectionCitation TypeStatute Text
161340.1:1(n/a)See Bill Text
372809.1(n/a)See Bill Text

Virginia State Sources


Bill Comments

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