republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-2184.md

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Bill	Inmates; inpatient psychiatric hospital admission.	Requires that if the person having custody of an inmate of a local correctional facility files a petition for inpatient psychiatric hospital admission of the inmate, the person having custody shall ensure that the appropriate community services board or behavioral health authority is advised of the need for a preadmission screening. The bill further requires the person having custody of the inmate to contact the director or other senior management at the community services board or behavioral health authority if such board or authority does not respond to the advisement that a preadmission screening is necessary or fails to complete the preadmission screening.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 2184	Virginia HB 2184 (2017)	bill	Behavioral Health and Developmental Services Criminal Procedure Health Prisons and Other Methods of Correction	enacted	Joseph R. Yost	4	18	6	2017-01-11	2017-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/67c7f601-1da4-47ed-91fc-281a70be1730	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2184	e96fca96ac0f2c06ad4f248aabfced82f98c8e0ffa60d61a93fb0d58e72bcc93	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2184 (2017) — Inmates; inpatient psychiatric hospital admission.

Requires that if the person having custody of an inmate of a local correctional facility files a petition for inpatient psychiatric hospital admission of the inmate, the person having custody shall ensure that the appropriate community services board or behavioral health authority is advised of the need for a preadmission screening. The bill further requires the person having custody of the inmate to contact the director or other senior management at the community services board or behavioral health authority if such board or authority does not respond to the advisement that a preadmission screening is necessary or fails to complete the preadmission screening.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0463) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2184ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102034D (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Printed as engrossed 17102034D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — 20–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 7–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Courts of Justice — 15–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Joseph R. Yost — primary (person)
• N.D. "Rocky" Holcomb III — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102034D introduction
• 2017-01-11 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 reading-2
• 2017-02-06 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2017-02-06 Engrossed by House as amended HB2184E
• 2017-02-06 Printed as engrossed 17102034D-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 for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2017-02-15 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-20 Enrolled
• 2017-02-20 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-21 Signed by President
• 2017-02-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
• 2017-02-21 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-13 Approved by Governor-Chapter 463 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/67c7f601-1da4-47ed-91fc-281a70be1730. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).