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Bill	Behavioral health; assessments in local correctional facilities, report.	Behavioral health assessments in local correctional facilities. Provides that the State Board of Local and RegionalJails, in establishing the minimum standards for behavioral healthservices in local correctional facilities, shall include a requirementthat if a behavioral health screening indicates that the person mayhave a mental illness, an assessment of his need for mental healthservices shall be conducted within 72 hours of the time of the screening.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2021	HB 1874	Virginia HB 1874 (2021)	bill		enacted	Carrie E. Coyner	4	29	7	2021-01-08	2021-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/c5615d50-2b03-46f7-8174-bc5de1f67bf3	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1874	137d98a16ccab8b0ebca846267e3cb4a06dfcb7b0089a0f56f3d22245b0b5cb4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1874 (2021) — Behavioral health; assessments in local correctional facilities, report.

Behavioral health assessments in local correctional facilities. Provides that the State Board of Local and RegionalJails, in establishing the minimum standards for behavioral healthservices in local correctional facilities, shall include a requirementthat if a behavioral health screening indicates that the person mayhave a mental illness, an assessment of his need for mental healthservices shall be conducted within 72 hours of the time of the screening.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0179 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 21102895D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB1874ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101199D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Carrie E. Coyner — primary (person)
• Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
• Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
• G. "John" Avoli — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer A. Kiggans — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph D. Morrissey — cosponsor (person)
• Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
• Martha M. Mugler — cosponsor (person)
• Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101199D introduction
• 2021-01-08 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2021-01-13 Assigned HWI sub: Behavioral Health referral-committee
• 2021-01-19 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-01-19 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 0-N)
• 2021-01-21 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-01-21 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-01-21 Committee substitute printed 21102895D-H1 substitution
• 2021-01-22 Read first time reading-1
• 2021-01-25 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-01-25 Committee substitute agreed to 21102895D-H1
• 2021-01-25 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1874H1
• 2021-01-26 Read third time and passed House (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2021-01-26 VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2021-01-27 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2021-01-27 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2021-01-28 Impact statement from DPB (HB1874H1)
• 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-19 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-22 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-23 Read third time reading-3
• 2021-02-23 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2021-02-26 Enrolled
• 2021-02-26 Impact statement from DPB (HB1874ER)
• 2021-02-26 Signed by Speaker
• 2021-02-27 Signed by President
• 2021-03-01 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 20201
• 2021-03-01 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
• 2021-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 179 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c5615d50-2b03-46f7-8174-bc5de1f67bf3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).