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| Bill | Hospitals providing psychiatric services; denials of admission. | Requires the Board of Health to promulgate regulations that require each hospital that provides inpatient psychiatric services to establish a protocol that (i) requires, for any refusal to admit a medically stable patient referred to its psychiatric unit, direct verbal communication between the on-call physician in the psychiatric unit and the referring physician, if requested by the referring physician, and (ii) prohibits on-call physicians or other hospital staff from refusing a request for such direct verbal communication by a referring physician. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2017 | HB 1777 | Virginia HB 1777 (2017) |
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Virginia HB 1777 (2017) — Hospitals providing psychiatric services; denials of admission.
Requires the Board of Health to promulgate regulations that require each hospital that provides inpatient psychiatric services to establish a protocol that (i) requires, for any refusal to admit a medically stable patient referred to its psychiatric unit, direct verbal communication between the on-call physician in the psychiatric unit and the referring physician, if requested by the referring physician, and (ii) prohibits on-call physicians or other hospital staff from refusing a request for such direct verbal communication by a referring physician.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0175) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1777ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102042D (committee substitute) — source
- House: Printed as engrossed 17102042D-E (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — 11–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendments — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
Sponsors
- Christopher P. Stolle — primary (person)
- Gordon C. Helsel, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Janet D. Howell — cosponsor (person)
- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
- Richard P. Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2017-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102042D
introduction - 2017-01-09 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
referral-committee - 2017-01-12 Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #1
referral-committee - 2017-01-20 Read first time
reading-1 - 2017-01-23 Read second time
reading-2 - 2017-01-23 Committee amendments agreed to
- 2017-01-23 Engrossed by House as amended HB1777E
- 2017-01-23 Printed as engrossed 17102042D-E
- 2017-01-24 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2017-01-25 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2017-01-25 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2017-02-06 Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
referral-committee - 2017-02-13 Read third time
reading-3 - 2017-02-15 Enrolled
- 2017-02-15 Signed by Speaker
- 2017-02-17 Signed by President
- 2017-02-17 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
- 2017-02-17 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
- 2017-02-23 Approved by Governor-Chapter 175 (effective 7/1/17)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a098da33-501b-40f4-a09b-7707f6af6a3e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).