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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Hospitals; screening emergency department patients, etc."
+description: "Hospitals; emergency treatment for substanceuse-related emergencies; services. Requires the Board of Healthto amend regulations governing hospitals to require each hospitalthat provides emergency treatment to an individual experiencing asubstance use-related emergency to (i) complete a comprehensive assessmentto identify appropriate medical interventions necessary for the treatmentof the individual; (ii) complete a comprehensive behavioral healthassessment to determine whether additional treatment may be appropriate;(iii) initiate pharmacotherapy for treatment of drug or alcohol dependence,where appropriate; and (iv) provide the patient with naloxone orother opioid antagonist used for overdose reversal. Such regulationsshall also require each hospital that provides emergency treatment to an individual experiencing a substance use-related emergencyto establish and implement a protocol for connecting such patientsreceiving emergency treatment with appropriate community-based providersof behavioral health services upon discharge."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 903"
+citation: "Virginia SB 903 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jill Holtzman Vogel"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2020-01-08"
+last_action: "2020-04-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ce2a097-8ed9-4ea2-b204-3da897a6e107"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB903"
+source_hash: "e9180a555fb56cc4137a477e430c74d5022882101770960de4a9b50b64e09e25"
+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 903 (2020) — Hospitals; screening emergency department patients, etc.
+
+Hospitals; emergency treatment for substanceuse-related emergencies; services. Requires the Board of Healthto amend regulations governing hospitals to require each hospitalthat provides emergency treatment to an individual experiencing asubstance use-related emergency to (i) complete a comprehensive assessmentto identify appropriate medical interventions necessary for the treatmentof the individual; (ii) complete a comprehensive behavioral healthassessment to determine whether additional treatment may be appropriate;(iii) initiate pharmacotherapy for treatment of drug or alcohol dependence,where appropriate; and (iv) provide the patient with naloxone orother opioid antagonist used for overdose reversal. Such regulationsshall also require each hospital that provides emergency treatment to an individual experiencing a substance use-related emergencyto establish and implement a protocol for connecting such patientsreceiving emergency treatment with appropriate community-based providersof behavioral health services upon discharge.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0942)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0942)
+2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB903ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB903ER)
+3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB903)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB903)
+4. **Impact statement from DPB (SB903S1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB903S1)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — **7–1** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 1-N) — **21–1** (pass) · lower
+- VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jill Holtzman Vogel — primary (person)
+- Chris Collins-Resigned 6/28/20 — cosponsor (person)
+- Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-08** Presented and ordered printed 20100720D `introduction`
+- **2020-01-08** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-16** Impact statement from DPB (SB903)
+- **2020-01-17** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-23** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-23** Committee substitute printed 20106163D-S1 `substitution`
+- **2020-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-01-24** Impact statement from DPB (SB903S1)
+- **2020-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-01-27** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2020-01-27** Committee substitute agreed to 20106163D-S1
+- **2020-01-27** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB903S1
+- **2020-01-28** 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: Health `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-18** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
+- **2020-02-25** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-27** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-28** Passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2020-02-28** VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-03-05** Enrolled
+- **2020-03-05** Impact statement from DPB (SB903ER)
+- **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
+- **2020-04-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 942 (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/6ce2a097-8ed9-4ea2-b204-3da897a6e107`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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