---
type: "Bill"
title: "Definition of mental health service provider."
description: "Adds physician assistant to the list of mental health service providers who have a duty to take precautions to protect third parties from violent behavior or other serious harm. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1062"
citation: "Virginia SB 1062 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Behavioral Health and Developmental Services", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Creigh Deeds"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-01-06"
last_action: "2017-02-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ed8ff174-abd4-47ae-9da9-593c76e49948"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1062"
source_hash: "4ea87fa4bff0b4eefc6addbc701d3b9e9791952fe88ca8388611efc0996a0942"
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 1062 (2017) — Definition of mental health service provider.

Adds physician assistant to the list of mental health service providers who have a duty to take precautions to protect third parties from violent behavior or other serious harm. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0061)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0061)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1062ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1062ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101103D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1062)

## Votes

- Reported from Education and Health — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- R. Creigh Deeds — primary (person)
- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101103D `introduction`
- **2017-01-06** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-30** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-13** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2017-02-14** Enrolled
- **2017-02-14** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-15** Signed by President
- **2017-02-15** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/15/17
- **2017-02-15** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2017
- **2017-02-20** Approved by Governor-Chapter 61 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ed8ff174-abd4-47ae-9da9-593c76e49948`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).