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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Developmental Disabilities Mortality Review Committee; created, report."
+description: "Developmental Disabilities Mortality Review Committee; penalty. Creates the Developmental Disabilities Mortality Review Committee to review the death of any person with a developmental disability who was receiving services from a provider licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services or in a training center or other state facility at the time of his death to ensure that the deaths of such persons are reviewed and analyzed in a systematic way."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 482"
+citation: "Virginia SB 482 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barbara A. Favola"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2020-01-07"
+last_action: "2020-04-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82bb5de1-20c7-4a83-8276-3b6e28381668"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB482"
+source_hash: "881ce29763ad5e49391491024c99c9ccb84555ff659d113a3a54cb99e4750159"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia SB 482 (2020) — Developmental Disabilities Mortality Review Committee; created, report.
+
+Developmental Disabilities Mortality Review Committee; penalty. Creates the Developmental Disabilities Mortality Review Committee to review the death of any person with a developmental disability who was receiving services from a provider licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services or in a training center or other state facility at the time of his death to ensure that the deaths of such persons are reviewed and analyzed in a systematic way.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0851)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0851)
+2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB482ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB482ER)
+3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB482)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB482)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104862D `introduction`
+- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-15** Impact statement from DPB (SB482)
+- **2020-01-17** Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-20** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-01-21** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2020-01-22** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-02-13** Placed on Calendar
+- **2020-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-13** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-13** Assigned HWI sub: Behavioral Health `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-17** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-25** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-27** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-28** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2020-02-28** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-03-05** Enrolled
+- **2020-03-05** Impact statement from DPB (SB482ER)
+- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
+- **2020-03-07** Signed by President
+- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
+- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
+- **2020-04-07** Approved by Governor-Chapter 851 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/82bb5de1-20c7-4a83-8276-3b6e28381668`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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