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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Behavioral health dockets; responsibilities of local pretrial services officers."
+description: "Responsibilities of local pretrial services officers; behavioral health dockets. Provides that a local pretrial services officer may facilitate the referral to screening for a defendant to be placed in a behavioral health docket as a treatment service."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 295"
+citation: "Virginia SB 295 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["R. Creigh Deeds"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 31
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2022-01-11"
+last_action: "2022-04-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba4bcaf2-207f-4c5b-a550-0d9338a8c40a"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB295"
+source_hash: "8dedf551d2dcbd3741981d0af9fa5426a411ea55b6c246d2480c7266aa0306cb"
+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 295 (2022) — Behavioral health dockets; responsibilities of local pretrial services officers.
+
+Responsibilities of local pretrial services officers; behavioral health dockets. Provides that a local pretrial services officer may facilitate the referral to screening for a defendant to be placed in a behavioral health docket as a treatment service.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0327** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0327)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100540D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB295)
+3. **Printed as engrossed 22100540D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB295E)
+4. **SB295ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB295ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Judiciary with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — **20–0** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- R. Creigh Deeds — primary (person)
+- T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100540D `introduction`
+- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-03** Impact statement from DPB (SB295)
+- **2022-02-14** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2022-02-14** Reported from Judiciary with amendment (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-15** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-02-15** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-15** Reading of amendment waived
+- **2022-02-15** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2022-02-15** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB295E
+- **2022-02-15** Printed as engrossed 22100540D-E
+- **2022-02-15** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-02-15** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2022-02-17** Impact statement from DPB (SB295E)
+- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
+- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-24** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-28** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-03-02** Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-03-04** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-07** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-07** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2022-03-07** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-03-10** Enrolled
+- **2022-03-10** Signed by President
+- **2022-03-10** Signed by Speaker
+- **2022-03-11** Impact statement from DPB (SB295ER)
+- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
+- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
+- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 327 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ba4bcaf2-207f-4c5b-a550-0d9338a8c40a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+