---
type: "Bill"
title: "Competency to stand trial; outpatient treatment may occur."
description: "Competency to stand trial; outpatient treatment. Clarifies that for the purposes of restorative treatment for a person incompetent but restorable to stand trial that outpatient treatment may occur in a local correctional facility or at a location determined by the appropriate community services board or behavioral health authority."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 683"
citation: "Virginia SB 683 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["T. Montgomery \"Monty\" Mason"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c13203d-f3f2-483f-a5ed-b3357ef408b5"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB683"
source_hash: "b3a4b6cde1508845bf0cab48e070e9f24b7cb7df7cf67241b41b77433dd90f2e"
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 683 (2020) — Competency to stand trial; outpatient treatment may occur.

Competency to stand trial; outpatient treatment. Clarifies that for the purposes of restorative treatment for a person incompetent but restorable to stand trial that outpatient treatment may occur in a local correctional facility or at a location determined by the appropriate community services board or behavioral health authority.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0937)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0937)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB683ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB683ER)
3. **Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB683H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB683H1)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (SB683)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB683)

## Votes

- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103984D `introduction`
- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-03** Reported from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-05** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-06** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-12** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-12** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-12** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** Impact statement from DPB (SB683)
- **2020-02-14** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-17** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-02-17** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-19** Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-19** Committee substitute printed 20108345D-H1 `substitution`
- **2020-02-21** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-24** Committee substitute agreed to 20108345D-H1
- **2020-02-24** Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB683H1
- **2020-02-24** Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-24** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-25** Impact statement from DPB (SB683H1)
- **2020-02-26** House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-26** Title replaced 20108345D-H1
- **2020-03-04** Enrolled
- **2020-03-05** Impact statement from DPB (SB683ER)
- **2020-03-05** Signed by President
- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
- **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 937 (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/4c13203d-f3f2-483f-a5ed-b3357ef408b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).