republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-739.md

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Bill	Acute psychiatric bed registry; DBHDS shall establish work group to evaluate, etc.	Acute psychiatric bed registry; informationrequired to be reported. Adds information about the (i) total number of licensed beds, (ii) total number of staffed beds, (iii)current bed utilization, (iv) change in bed utilization since themost recent update, (v) number of beds actually available, (vi) numberof requests for admission received since the most recent update,(vii) number of individuals admitted since the most recent update,and (vii) number of requests for admission denied since the mostrecent update and the reason for each such denial to the list ofinformation that must be submitted to the acute psychiatric bed registry(the registry) daily by each public and private inpatient psychiatricfacility and every public and private residential crisis stabilizationunit in the Commonwealth. The bill also directs the Department ofBehavioral Health and Developmental Services to create a work groupto evaluate the purpose, structure, and effectiveness of the registryand make recommendations for statutory, budgetary, or other actionsnecessary to redefine the purpose of the registry and improve its structure and effectiveness. The work group shall report its findings,conclusions, and recommendations to the Governor and the Chairmenof the Senate Committee on Education and Health, House Committeeon Health, Welfare and Institutions, and the Joint Subcommittee toStudy Mental Health Services in the Commonwealth in the Twenty-FirstCentury by November 1, 2020.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 739	Virginia SB 739 (2020)	bill		enacted	R. Creigh Deeds	4	28	5	2020-01-08	2020-03-10	openstates	ocd-bill/90df0af7-2b3f-4a99-8c6a-8626334122b1	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB739	a9eea5a0532c82870850016b0f2faf73a049d53d4358d23aea4ce168615c9f67	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 739 (2020) — Acute psychiatric bed registry; DBHDS shall establish work group to evaluate, etc.

Acute psychiatric bed registry; informationrequired to be reported. Adds information about the (i) total number of licensed beds, (ii) total number of staffed beds, (iii)current bed utilization, (iv) change in bed utilization since themost recent update, (v) number of beds actually available, (vi) numberof requests for admission received since the most recent update,(vii) number of individuals admitted since the most recent update,and (vii) number of requests for admission denied since the mostrecent update and the reason for each such denial to the list ofinformation that must be submitted to the acute psychiatric bed registry(the registry) daily by each public and private inpatient psychiatricfacility and every public and private residential crisis stabilizationunit in the Commonwealth. The bill also directs the Department ofBehavioral Health and Developmental Services to create a work groupto evaluate the purpose, structure, and effectiveness of the registryand make recommendations for statutory, budgetary, or other actionsnecessary to redefine the purpose of the registry and improve its structure and effectiveness. The work group shall report its findings,conclusions, and recommendations to the Governor and the Chairmenof the Senate Committee on Education and Health, House Committeeon Health, Welfare and Institutions, and the Joint Subcommittee toStudy Mental Health Services in the Commonwealth in the Twenty-FirstCentury by November 1, 2020.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0235) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB739ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB739S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (SB739) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• R. Creigh Deeds — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103050D introduction
• 2020-01-08 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-01-16 Impact statement from DPB (SB739)
• 2020-01-17 Assigned Education sub: Health referral-committee
• 2020-01-30 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-30 Committee substitute printed 20106120D-S1 substitution
• 2020-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-03 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-02-03 Committee substitute agreed to 20106120D-S1
• 2020-02-03 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB739S1
• 2020-02-04 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-05 Impact statement from DPB (SB739S1)
• 2020-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-13 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2020-02-18 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-20 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-21 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-21 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-26 Enrolled
• 2020-02-27 Signed by President
• 2020-02-27 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (SB739ER)
• 2020-03-04 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 4, 2020
• 2020-03-04 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 11, 2020
• 2020-03-10 Approved by Governor-Chapter 235 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/90df0af7-2b3f-4a99-8c6a-8626334122b1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).