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| Bill | Advance directives; admission of person for mental health treatment, capacity determinations. | Provides that in cases in which a person has executed an advance directive granting an agent the authority to consent to the person's admission to a facility for mental health treatment and the advance directive so authorizes, the person's agent may exercise such authority after a determination that the person is incapable of making an informed decision regarding such admission has been made by (i) the attending physician, (ii) a psychiatrist or licensed clinical psychologist, (iii) a licensed psychiatric nurse practitioner, (iv) a licensed clinical social worker, or (v) a designee of the local community services board as defined in § 37.2-809. The bill also provides that a person's agent may make a health care decision over the protest of the person if, in addition to other factors, at the time the advance directive was made, a licensed physician, licensed clinical psychologist, licensed physician assistant, licensed nurse practitioner, licensed professional counselor, or licensed clinical social worker who is familiar with the person attested in writing that the person was capable of making an informed decision and understood the consequences of the provision. This bill is identical to | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2017 | SB 1511 | Virginia SB 1511 (2017) |
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Virginia SB 1511 (2017) — Advance directives; admission of person for mental health treatment, capacity determinations.
Provides that in cases in which a person has executed an advance directive granting an agent the authority to consent to the person's admission to a facility for mental health treatment and the advance directive so authorizes, the person's agent may exercise such authority after a determination that the person is incapable of making an informed decision regarding such admission has been made by (i) the attending physician, (ii) a psychiatrist or licensed clinical psychologist, (iii) a licensed psychiatric nurse practitioner, (iv) a licensed clinical social worker, or (v) a designee of the local community services board as defined in § 37.2-809. The bill also provides that a person's agent may make a health care decision over the protest of the person if, in addition to other factors, at the time the advance directive was made, a licensed physician, licensed clinical psychologist, licensed physician assistant, licensed nurse practitioner, licensed professional counselor, or licensed clinical social worker who is familiar with the person attested in writing that the person was capable of making an informed decision and understood the consequences of the provision. This bill is identical to
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0474) (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1511ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Presented and ordered printed 17103741D (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Printed as engrossed 17103741D-E (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendments — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health with amendment — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
- House amendments agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Passed House with amendments BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
Sponsors
- R. Creigh Deeds — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2017-01-19 Presented and ordered printed 17103741D
introduction - 2017-01-19 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2017-01-30 Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
referral-committee - 2017-02-06 Read second time
reading-2 - 2017-02-06 Reading of amendment waived
- 2017-02-06 Committee amendment agreed to
- 2017-02-06 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1511E
- 2017-02-06 Printed as engrossed 17103741D-E
- 2017-02-08 Placed on Calendar
- 2017-02-08 Read first time
reading-1 - 2017-02-08 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
referral-committee - 2017-02-10 Read second time
reading-2 - 2017-02-13 Read third time
reading-3 - 2017-02-13 Committee amendments agreed to
- 2017-02-13 Engrossed by House as amended
- 2017-02-13 Passed House with amendments BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
passage - 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 474 (effective 7/1/17)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ea62a69b-3bd5-448a-a9be-41f43848911e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).