Bills/Issues
Year
Bill Status
Close Votes
Chief Patron
HB1578
Office of the State Inspector General; behavioral health and developmental services; required reports.
Chief Patron:
Ellen Campbell
Status: Enacted
HB1712
Law-enforcement agencies and officers; establishing training curriculum on certain arrests.
Chief Patron:
Vivian Watts
Status: Enacted
2 Close Floor Votes
HB1760
Mental health for children 5 yrs. of age or younger; DBHDS, et al., to develop screening, etc.
Chief Patron:
Debra Gardner
Status: Enacted
HB1803
Human Resource Management, Department of; establishing a career group for licensed behavior analysts
Chief Patron:
Laura Jane Cohen
Status: Vetoed
Close Floor Vote
HB1895
Involuntary temporary detention orders; amends definition of "psychiatric emergency department."
Chief Patron:
Rodney Willett
Status: Enacted
HB1931
Regional Older Adults Facility Team; central/eastern Va. to establish.
Chief Patron:
Destiny LeVere Bolling
Status: Killed
HB1937
Acute psychiatric bed registry; patient privacy and data security, etc.
Chief Patron:
Patrick Hope
Status: Enacted
HB1947
Department of Education; survey of local education agencies on school-based mental and behavioral health services; report.
Chief Patron:
Holly Seibold
Status: Enacted
HB1951
Workers' compensation; post-traumatic stress, anxiety, or depressive disorders, dispatchers.
Chief Patron:
Otto Wachsmann
Status: Killed
HB1977
Weapons; possession prohibited in a hospital that provides mental health or developmental services.
Chief Patron:
Phil Hernandez
Status: Vetoed
3 Close Floor Votes
HB2055
Student health and safety; responsibility to contact parent of student at imminent risk of suicide.
Chief Patron:
Atoosa Reaser
Status: Enacted
HB2060
Workers' compensation benefits; post-traumatic stress disorder incurred by firefighters, etc.
Chief Patron:
Paul Krizek
Status: Killed
HB2230
Emergency custody and involuntary admissions; transfer of custody to facility.
Chief Patron:
Mike Cherry
Status: Killed
HB2285
Autism Advisory Council; establishment of an autism data dashboard, report.
Chief Patron:
Carrie Coyner
Status: Killed
HB2341
Culturally responsive & language-appropriate mental health support & services; guidance & policies.
Chief Patron:
Irene Shin
Status: Vetoed
2 Close Floor Votes
HB2350
Emergency Management, Department of; powers & duties, development & implementation of guidelines.
Chief Patron:
Debra Gardner
Status: Passed
2 Close Floor Votes
HB2420
Intercollegiate athletics program coaches; Mental Health First Aid or similar training required.
Chief Patron:
Michael Webert
Status: Enacted
HB2446
Postpartum Depression Education Act; Department of Health to establish a public awareness campaign.
Chief Patron:
Candi King
Status: Enacted
HB2511
Nationally Certified School Psychologist Program; established.
Chief Patron:
Kim Taylor
Status: Killed
HB2543
Model memorandum of understanding; counseling from school counselors by way of telehealth.
Chief Patron:
Amy Laufer
Status: Enacted
HB2569
Persons with mental illness; Va. State Crime Commission, et al., to study petty crimes committed.
Chief Patron:
Jay Leftwich
Status: Killed
HB2637
Mental Health First Aid Program; DOE, et al., to develop, participation by school staff & students.
Chief Patron:
Destiny LeVere Bolling
Status: Enacted
HB2655
Behavioral health services; correctional facilities, exchange of medical/mental health information.
Chief Patron:
Wren Williams
Status: Consolidated
HB2714
Developmental disability waivers; reallocation of unassigned and unused waiver slots.
Chief Patron:
Tony Wilt
Status: Killed
HB2719
Firearms; adding court ordered outpatient mental health treatment as prohibition to ownership.
Chief Patron:
A.C. Cordoza
Status: Killed