---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community services boards and behavioral health authorities; provisions of performance contracts."
description: "Community services boards and behavioral health authorities; provisions of performance contracts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2185"
citation: "Virginia HB 2185 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rasoul"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 44
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ac153dc-c356-45c7-bda0-67b98f3b571b"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB2185"
source_hash: "a78d80948378b66e802d1836642cddeafd703ae82d0b4861b27ff742956501c4"
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 2185 (2023) — Community services boards and behavioral health authorities; provisions of performance contracts.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0790** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0790)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23106520D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2185S1)
3. **HB2185ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2185ER)
4. **HB2185ER2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2185ER2)
5. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103869D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2185)

## Votes

- VOTE: Block Vote Adoption (95-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rasoul — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103869D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-11** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-24** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-24** Impact statement from DPB (HB2185)
- **2023-01-26** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-26** Motion to refer to committee agreed to `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-27** Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-02** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-02-03** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-09** Committee substitute printed 23106520D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** Reading of substitute waived
- **2023-02-13** Committee substitute agreed to 23106520D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-13** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2185S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-13** Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-14** Impact statement from DPB (HB2185S1)
- **2023-02-15** Senate substitute agreed to by House 23106520D-S1 (98-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2023-02-15** VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-20** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-20** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2185ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-20** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-21** Impact statement from DPB (HB2185ER)
- **2023-02-21** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-27** Governor's recommendation received by House `executive-veto-line-item`
- **2023-04-12** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-04-12** House concurred in Governor's recommendation BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N)
- **2023-04-12** VOTE: Block Vote Adoption (95-Y 0-N)
- **2023-04-12** Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-04-12** Governor's recommendation adopted `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-12** Reenrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-04-12** Reenrolled bill text (HB2185ER2) `enrolled`
- **2023-04-12** Signed by Speaker as reenrolled `enrolled, passage`
- **2023-04-12** Signed by President as reenrolled `enrolled, passage`
- **2023-04-12** Enacted, Chapter 790 (effective - see bill) `became-law`
- **2023-04-12** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0790)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5ac153dc-c356-45c7-bda0-67b98f3b571b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).