republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-1508.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Critical incident reports; DBHDS to provide written report."
description: "Requires the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to provide a written report setting forth the known facts of serious injuries or deaths of individuals receiving services in programs operated or licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to the Director of the Commonwealth's designated protection and advocacy system within 15 working days of the serious injury or death. Currently, reports are required only for critical incidents or deaths occurring at facilities operated by the Department. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1508"
citation: "Virginia HB 1508 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Behavioral Health and Developmental Services", "Study Commissions", "Committees and Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick A. Hope"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2016-12-19"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a6f55e3-3327-4509-9131-cf31738c5b1c"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1508"
source_hash: "0ffbacf0f04f964089e04e54e5992358b7b4597e998cf4cf81b173bf4fc7d25d"
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 1508 (2017) — Critical incident reports; DBHDS to provide written report.

Requires the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to provide a written report setting forth the known facts of serious injuries or deaths of individuals receiving services in programs operated or licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to the Director of the Commonwealth's designated protection and advocacy system within 15 working days of the serious injury or death. Currently, reports are required only for critical incidents or deaths occurring at facilities operated by the Department. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0455)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0455)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1508ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1508ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101839D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1508)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17101839D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1508E)

## Votes

- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Appropriations — **20–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendment — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendments — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — **6–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendment — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Patrick A. Hope — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-12-19** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101839D `introduction`
- **2016-12-19** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-12** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House as amended HB1508E
- **2017-02-06** Printed as engrossed 17101839D-E
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-20** Reading of amendment waived
- **2017-02-20** Amendment by Senator Favola agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2017-02-20** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2017-02-21** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-21** Senate amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N)
- **2017-02-24** Enrolled
- **2017-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 455 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a6f55e3-3327-4509-9131-cf31738c5b1c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).