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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Minors; parental admission for inpatient treatment."
+description: "Parental admission of minors for inpatient treatment. Clarifies that for the purposes of admission of a minor to a willing mental health facility for inpatient treatment, the finding required to be made by a qualified evaluator that the minor appears to have a mental illness serious enough to warrant inpatient treatment may include a finding of substance abuse and such inpatient treatment may be related to such mental illness, which may include substance abuse. The bill also specifies that a temporary detention order shall not be required for a minor 14 years of age or older who objects to admission to be admitted to a willing facility upon the application of a parent. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Virginia Commission on Youth. This bill is identical to HB 772."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 460"
+citation: "Virginia SB 460 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David W. Marsden"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2024-01-09"
+last_action: "2024-04-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ca59eb3-12b7-4269-86a7-58a8a8e1be8b"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB460"
+source_hash: "faf47bb53bca22ea56222b29206c7dd328176acac359c852373d2fa1a662e4ff"
+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 460 (2024) — Minors; parental admission for inpatient treatment.
+
+Parental admission of minors for inpatient treatment. Clarifies that for the purposes of admission of a minor to a willing mental health facility for inpatient treatment, the finding required to be made by a qualified evaluator that the minor appears to have a mental illness serious enough to warrant inpatient treatment may include a finding of substance abuse and such inpatient treatment may be related to such mental illness, which may include substance abuse. The bill also specifies that a temporary detention order shall not be required for a minor 14 years of age or older who objects to admission to be admitted to a willing facility upon the application of a parent. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Virginia Commission on Youth. This bill is identical to HB 772.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0710** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0710)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101727D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB460)
+3. **Printed as engrossed 24101727D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB460E)
+4. **SB460ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB460ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 1-N) — **21–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David W. Marsden — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101727D `filing, introduction`
+- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (SB460)
+- **2024-01-29** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2024-01-29** Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2024-01-31** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2024-01-31** Reading of amendments waived
+- **2024-01-31** Committee amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-01-31** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB460E
+- **2024-01-31** Printed as engrossed 24101727D-E
+- **2024-02-01** Impact statement from DPB (SB460E)
+- **2024-02-01** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-13** Placed on Calendar
+- **2024-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-13** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-16** Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-20** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-21** Passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2024-02-21** VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2024-02-26** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2024-02-26** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB460ER) `passage`
+- **2024-02-26** Impact statement from DPB (SB460ER)
+- **2024-02-26** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2024-02-28** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled`
+- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 710 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
+- **2024-04-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0710)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7ca59eb3-12b7-4269-86a7-58a8a8e1be8b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+