republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/sb-1330.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Critical incident stress management team; peer support team privileged communications."
description: "Provides that certain communications regarding a critical incident to a peer support team member are included in the critical incident stress management team privilege. Under current law, the privilege applies only to members of a critical incident stress management team. The bill specifies that a peer support team shall be headed by a Virginia-licensed clinical psychologist, Virginia-licensed psychiatrist, Virginia-licensed clinical social worker, or Virginia-licensed professional counselor with at least five years of experience as a mental health consultant who works directly with emergency medical services personnel or public safety personnel to meet the accreditation standards. Finally, the bill defines a critical incident as an incident that induces an abnormally high level of negative emotions in response to a perceived loss of control and is often related to a threat to the well-being of emergency medical services personnel or public safety personnel or to the well-being of another individual for whom such personnel has some obligation of personal or professional concern."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1330"
citation: "Virginia SB 1330 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Procedure", "Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles W. Carrico, Sr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df06d427-984b-4069-9dc6-47a19171f683"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1330"
source_hash: "0b44eeb405de30eb254aa276538584091874bb093827b68c3b3276c13aa38112"
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 1330 (2017) — Critical incident stress management team; peer support team privileged communications.

Provides that certain communications regarding a critical incident to a peer support team member are included in the critical incident stress management team privilege. Under current law, the privilege applies only to members of a critical incident stress management team. The bill specifies that a peer support team shall be headed by a Virginia-licensed clinical psychologist, Virginia-licensed psychiatrist, Virginia-licensed clinical social worker, or Virginia-licensed professional counselor with at least five years of experience as a mental health consultant who works directly with emergency medical services personnel or public safety personnel to meet the accreditation standards. Finally, the bill defines a critical incident as an incident that induces an abnormally high level of negative emotions in response to a perceived loss of control and is often related to a threat to the well-being of emergency medical services personnel or public safety personnel or to the well-being of another individual for whom such personnel has some obligation of personal or professional concern.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0609)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1330ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1330ER)
3. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 17105059D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1330S1)
4. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103838D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1330)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE — **100–0** (pass) · legislature
- House amendment agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Charles W. Carrico, Sr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103838D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-19** Rereferred to Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Reading of substitute waived
- **2017-02-06** Committee substitute agreed to 17105059D-S1
- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1330S1
- **2017-02-08** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-08** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-22** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-22** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2017-02-22** Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2017-03-07** Enrolled
- **2017-03-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-03-10** Signed by President
- **2017-03-13** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
- **2017-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 609 (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/df06d427-984b-4069-9dc6-47a19171f683`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).