---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mental health and rehabilitative services; military serv. members transitioning to civilian life."
description: "Mental health and rehabilitative services; military serv. members transitioning to civilian life."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 1071"
citation: "Virginia SB 1071 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3a5707b-52c5-4a10-9bb6-fec8bdff5853"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1071"
source_hash: "27889d6a39d2acdf446eb6475e44fad5842a25d362e65cc6d019e8bb5dfe2df3"
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 1071 (2023) — Mental health and rehabilitative services; military serv. members transitioning to civilian life.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0247** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0247)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101355D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1071)
3. **SB1071ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1071ER)

## Votes

- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101355D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-09** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (SB1071)
- **2023-01-18** Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-18** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-02** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-06** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-08** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-08** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-08** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-13** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-14** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-14** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-16** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1071ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Impact statement from DPB (SB1071ER)
- **2023-02-16** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 247 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-22** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0247)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d3a5707b-52c5-4a10-9bb6-fec8bdff5853`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).