---
type: "Bill"
title: "Competency to stand trial; order for evaluation or treatment."
description: "Competency to stand trial; order for evaluation or treatment; copy to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. Provides that whenever a court orders an evaluation of a defendant's competency to stand trial, the clerk of the court shall provide a copy of the order to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. This bill is identical to HB 738."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 691"
citation: "Virginia SB 691 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["T. Montgomery \"Monty\" Mason"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-01-20"
last_action: "2022-04-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7038664f-48e1-430a-87f5-0d17ad2668f3"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB691"
source_hash: "3b2826f0c753c105b939c5566066df6e9e3a22532e8517545ea29970e8aca0c7"
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 691 (2022) — Competency to stand trial; order for evaluation or treatment.

Competency to stand trial; order for evaluation or treatment; copy to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. Provides that whenever a court orders an evaluation of a defendant's competency to stand trial, the clerk of the court shall provide a copy of the order to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. This bill is identical to HB 738.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0074** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0074)
2. **Presented and ordered printed 22103575D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB691)
3. **SB691ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB691ER)

## Votes

- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-20** Presented and ordered printed 22103575D `introduction`
- **2022-01-20** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-25** Impact statement from DPB (SB691)
- **2022-01-26** Reported from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2022-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-01** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-01** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-01** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-21** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-21** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-21** Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-23** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-24** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-24** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-28** Enrolled
- **2022-02-28** Impact statement from DPB (SB691ER)
- **2022-02-28** Signed by President
- **2022-02-28** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
- **2022-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-01** Approved by Governor-Chapter 74 (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/7038664f-48e1-430a-87f5-0d17ad2668f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).