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Bill	Forensic discharge planning services; local and regional correctional facilities.	Directs the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, in conjunction with the relevant stakeholders, to develop a comprehensive plan, by November 1, 2017, for the provision of forensic discharge planning services at local and regional correctional facilities for persons who have serious mental illnesses who are to be released from such facilities. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	SB 941	Virginia SB 941 (2017)	bill	Behavioral Health and Developmental Services Prisons and Other Methods of Correction Study Commissions Committees and Reports	enacted	John A. Cosgrove, Jr.	3	15	5	2016-12-29	2017-02-21	openstates	ocd-bill/7089ca0f-39cc-40e9-9e76-c05c73057d87	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB941	3930739b94123d8773e62678bfd563c53a6be3fb228313cc4955399bfe343e0b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 941 (2017) — Forensic discharge planning services; local and regional correctional facilities.

Directs the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, in conjunction with the relevant stakeholders, to develop a comprehensive plan, by November 1, 2017, for the provision of forensic discharge planning services at local and regional correctional facilities for persons who have serious mental illnesses who are to be released from such facilities. 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 (CHAP0137) (committee substitute) — source
2. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB941ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101440D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• John A. Cosgrove, Jr. — primary (person)
• David J. Toscano — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
• R. Creigh Deeds — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-29 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101440D introduction
• 2016-12-29 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2017-01-17 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2017-01-30 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-01-30 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-01-30 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 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2017-02-14 Enrolled
• 2017-02-14 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-15 Signed by President
• 2017-02-15 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/15/17
• 2017-02-15 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2017
• 2017-02-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 137 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7089ca0f-39cc-40e9-9e76-c05c73057d87. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).