---
type: "Bill"
title: "Substance Abuse Services Council; name change, membership."
description: "Substance Abuse Services Council; name change, membership."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 824"
citation: "Virginia SB 824 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bell"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-12-21"
last_action: "2023-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b73afec3-82d1-4f53-9332-b962185f69f0"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB824"
source_hash: "225059e06948dd076a8c03305d3672849e43f05f537dfc8a34190fa7dc3ea5c1"
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 824 (2023) — Substance Abuse Services Council; name change, membership.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0466** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0466)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102262D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB824)
3. **Printed as engrossed 23102262D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB824E)
4. **SB824ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB824ER)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (14-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Referred from Rules — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-21** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102262D `filing, introduction`
- **2022-12-21** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB824)
- **2023-01-11** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-11** Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-13** Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-16** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-01-16** Reading of amendment waived
- **2023-01-16** Committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2023-01-16** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB824E
- **2023-01-16** Printed as engrossed 23102262D-E
- **2023-01-17** Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (SB824E)
- **2023-02-10** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-10** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-10** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** Referred from Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-20** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-21** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-21** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-24** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-24** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB824ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-24** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-02-24** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (SB824ER)
- **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`
- **2023-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 466 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0466)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b73afec3-82d1-4f53-9332-b962185f69f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).