republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2021/sb-1273.md

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Bill	Behavioral Health Commission; established, report.	Behavioral Health Commission created. Creates the Behavioral Health Commission in the legislative branch of state government for the purpose of (i) studying and making recommendations for the improvement of behavioral health services and the behavioral health service system in the Commonwealth to encourage the adoption of policies to increase the quality and availability of and ensure access to the full continuum of high-quality, effective, and efficient behavioral health services for all persons in the Commonwealth and (ii) providing ongoing oversight of behavioral health services and the behavioral health service system in the Commonwealth, including monitoring and evaluation of established programs, services, and delivery and payment structures and implementation of new services and initiatives in the Commonwealth and development of recommendations for improving such programs, services, structures, and implementation.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2021	SB 1273	Virginia SB 1273 (2021)	bill		enacted	R. Creigh Deeds	4	30	7	2021-01-12	2021-03-24	openstates	ocd-bill/7ab59404-c2ba-46a9-8d2b-21fdc693235c	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1273	22b452836d25713aa77dfb87257d73729913a82b4766fcaddfbc47f8fae03f9e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1273 (2021) — Behavioral Health Commission; established, report.

Behavioral Health Commission created. Creates the Behavioral Health Commission in the legislative branch of state government for the purpose of (i) studying and making recommendations for the improvement of behavioral health services and the behavioral health service system in the Commonwealth to encourage the adoption of policies to increase the quality and availability of and ensure access to the full continuum of high-quality, effective, and efficient behavioral health services for all persons in the Commonwealth and (ii) providing ongoing oversight of behavioral health services and the behavioral health service system in the Commonwealth, including monitoring and evaluation of established programs, services, and delivery and payment structures and implementation of new services and initiatives in the Commonwealth and development of recommendations for improving such programs, services, structures, and implementation.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0313 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101274D (committee substitute) — source
3. Printed as engrossed 21101274D-E (committee substitute) — source
4. SB1273ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Rules with amendments (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Continued to Special Session 1 in Rules — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Rules (17-Y 0-N) — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• R. Creigh Deeds — primary (person)
• Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
• Margaret B. Ransone — cosponsor (person)
• Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• Robert B. Bell — cosponsor (person)
• T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)
• Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101274D introduction
• 2021-01-12 Referred to Committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2021-01-19 Impact statement from DPB (SB1273)
• 2021-01-29 Reported from Rules with amendments (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-01 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-02 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-02-02 Reading of amendments waived
• 2021-02-02 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2021-02-02 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1273E
• 2021-02-02 Printed as engrossed 21101274D-E
• 2021-02-02 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-02 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2021-02-03 Impact statement from DPB (SB1273E)
• 2021-02-05 Placed on Calendar
• 2021-02-05 Read first time reading-1
• 2021-02-05 Referred to Committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2021-02-08 Continued to Special Session 1 in Rules
• 2021-02-19 Reported from Rules (17-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-23 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-02-24 Read third time reading-3
• 2021-02-24 Passed by temporarily
• 2021-02-24 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2021-02-24 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-26 Enrolled
• 2021-02-26 Impact statement from DPB (SB1273ER)
• 2021-02-26 Signed by Speaker
• 2021-02-27 Signed by President
• 2021-03-01 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
• 2021-03-01 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
• 2021-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 313 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7ab59404-c2ba-46a9-8d2b-21fdc693235c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).