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| Bill | Community services boards; discharge planning. | Community services boards; discharge planning. Reduces from within 30 days to within 72 hours of an individual's identification as ready for discharge the time by which a community services board must document its disagreement with the determination that an individual is ready for discharge from a state hospital or training center. The bill also directs the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to establish a work group with representatives of the Virginia Association of Community Services Boards to (i) review the current process for discharging patients from state mental health hospitals, including the current assigned responsibilities of state hospital staff and community services board staff, as well as the barriers to timely discharge for patients clinically ready to discharge, and (ii) develop potential options to expedite the discharge process for individuals who can be safely discharged back into the community. The bill directs the work group to develop a plan that includes recommendations for expediting the discharge process and identify the necessary funding to ensure that individuals receive essential services upon discharge and that discharges are timely. The bill requires the work group to report its findings and conclusions and its plan to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by September 1, 2021. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2021 | SB 1304 | Virginia SB 1304 (2021) |
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Virginia SB 1304 (2021) — Community services boards; discharge planning.
Community services boards; discharge planning. Reduces from within 30 days to within 72 hours of an individual's identification as ready for discharge the time by which a community services board must document its disagreement with the determination that an individual is ready for discharge from a state hospital or training center. The bill also directs the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to establish a work group with representatives of the Virginia Association of Community Services Boards to (i) review the current process for discharging patients from state mental health hospitals, including the current assigned responsibilities of state hospital staff and community services board staff, as well as the barriers to timely discharge for patients clinically ready to discharge, and (ii) develop potential options to expedite the discharge process for individuals who can be safely discharged back into the community. The bill directs the work group to develop a plan that includes recommendations for expediting the discharge process and identify the necessary funding to ensure that individuals receive essential services upon discharge and that discharges are timely. The bill requires the work group to report its findings and conclusions and its plan to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by September 1, 2021.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0249 (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102367D (committee substitute) — source
- Printed as engrossed 21102367D-E (committee substitute) — source
- SB1304ER (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 1-N) — 5–1 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions — 0–0 (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) — 35–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with amendments (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Jeremy S. McPike — primary (person)
- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102367D
introduction - 2021-01-12 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2021-01-19 Impact statement from DPB (SB1304)
- 2021-01-22 Assigned Education sub: Health
referral-committee - 2021-01-28 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2021-01-28 Reported from Education and Health with amendments (14-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2021-01-29 Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
- 2021-02-01 Read second time
reading-2 - 2021-02-01 Reading of amendments waived
- 2021-02-01 Committee amendments #1 and #3 agreed to
- 2021-02-01 Committee amendment #2 rejected
- 2021-02-01 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1304E
- 2021-02-01 Printed as engrossed 21102367D-E
- 2021-02-02 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2021-02-04 Impact statement from DPB (SB1304E)
- 2021-02-05 Placed on Calendar
- 2021-02-05 Read first time
reading-1 - 2021-02-05 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
referral-committee - 2021-02-08 Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 2021-02-09 Assigned HWI sub: Behavioral Health
referral-committee - 2021-02-16 Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 1-N)
- 2021-02-16 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2021-02-18 Read second time
reading-2 - 2021-02-19 Read third time
reading-3 - 2021-02-19 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
passage - 2021-02-19 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- 2021-02-24 Enrolled
- 2021-02-24 Impact statement from DPB (SB1304ER)
- 2021-02-24 Signed by President
- 2021-02-25 Signed by Speaker
- 2021-02-26 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 26, 2021
- 2021-02-26 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- 2021-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 249 (effective 7/1/21)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c411de35-3984-45b8-8d83-c22295dd49de. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).