Bill Text: VA HB434 | 2024 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: Inpatient/residential subst. use disorder trtmt.; facilities to prepare & record discharge plan.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-04-17 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0808) [HB434 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2024-HB434-Engrossed.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. §1. That the Department of Behavioral Health and
Developmental Services (the Department) shall amend its regulations to require
that any facility licensed by the Department to provide inpatient substance use
disorder treatment be required to prepare and record a [ certified
valid ] discharge plan upon the discharge or withdrawal of any
individual from the facility who has received substance use disorder treatment
while admitted to such facility. Such discharge plan shall include the
provision of funds withheld from the individual's prior payments to the
facility to assist the individual in the execution of such discharge plan. The
regulations shall provide that failure by a facility to prepare and record
[ certified valid ] discharge plans may result in civil
penalties, license suspension, or license revocation. [ Such valid
discharge plan shall include provisions for returning to the individual's personal
home. ]
