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type: "Bill"
title: "Definition of mental health service provider."
description: "Adds physician assistant to the list of mental health service providers who have a duty to take precautions to protect third parties from violent behavior or other serious harm. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1910"
citation: "Virginia HB 1910 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Behavioral Health and Developmental Services", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph R. Yost"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/28615bc7-2489-420e-8225-c181facc71c7"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1910"
source_hash: "9005f7e69f08eabb548e9604243b8dcd22ce75db329a28169e18455af5b63c2f"
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 1910 (2017) — Definition of mental health service provider.
Adds physician assistant to the list of mental health service providers who have a duty to take precautions to protect third parties from violent behavior or other serious harm. 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 (CHAP0417)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0417)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1910ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1910ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101478D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1910)
## Votes
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **200** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **970** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **70** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Joseph R. Yost — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101478D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Assigned Courts sub: Mental Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **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`
- **2017-02-23** Enrolled
- **2017-02-23** 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 417 (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/28615bc7-2489-420e-8225-c181facc71c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).