---
type: "Bill"
title: "Suicide fatality review teams, local and regional; established, membership, penalty."
description: "Local and regional suicide fatality review teams; penalty. Permits localities or combinations of localities to establish a local or regional suicide fatality review team. The bill provides exemptions from the Virginia Freedom of Information Act for information and records obtained or created regarding a review of a fatality by such team."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 513"
citation: "Virginia HB 513 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marty Martinez"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2026-01-13"
last_action: "2026-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7431509-05af-4603-82a4-9f0ee4ed97d2"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB513"
source_hash: "0974664d4ec1746b1389ba17e3359499763a3000d9dd651bdacf857fef3ab7f4"
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 HB 513 (2026) — Suicide fatality review teams, local and regional; established, membership, penalty.

Local and regional suicide fatality review teams; penalty. Permits localities or combinations of localities to establish a local or regional suicide fatality review team. The bill provides exemptions from the Virginia Freedom of Information Act for information and records obtained or created regarding a review of a fatality by such team.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1084760.PDF)
2. **Behavioral Health Subcommittee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1101494.PDF)
3. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1216844.PDF)
4. **Health and Human Services Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1113844.PDF)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1194035.PDF)

## Votes

- Passage R — **39–1** (pass) · upper
- Passage R — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Reconsider R — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Rereferred from Education and Health — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **14–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Marty Martinez — primary (person)
- Karen R. "Kacey" Carnegie — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Callsen — cosponsor (person)
- Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
- Virgil Thornton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26104689D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-13** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-23** Assigned sub: Behavioral Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-29** House subcommittee offered
- **2026-01-29** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2026-01-30** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB513)
- **2026-02-03** Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-03** Committee substitute printed 26105562D-H1 `substitution`
- **2026-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-06** committee substitute agreed to `substitution`
- **2026-02-06** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2026-02-09** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2026-02-10** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-19** Rereferred from Education and Health to General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-20** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB513)
- **2026-02-25** Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-27** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-27** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (37-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-02-27** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- **2026-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-02** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-02** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-03-02** Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-06** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-06** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB513ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-06** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB513)
- **2026-03-06** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-06** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-10** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 158 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-06** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0158)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c7431509-05af-4603-82a4-9f0ee4ed97d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).