republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-295.md

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Bill	Behavioral health dockets; responsibilities of local pretrial services officers.	Responsibilities of local pretrial services officers; behavioral health dockets. Provides that a local pretrial services officer may facilitate the referral to screening for a defendant to be placed in a behavioral health docket as a treatment service.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 295	Virginia SB 295 (2022)	bill		enacted	R. Creigh Deeds	4	31	7	2022-01-11	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/ba4bcaf2-207f-4c5b-a550-0d9338a8c40a	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB295	8dedf551d2dcbd3741981d0af9fa5426a411ea55b6c246d2480c7266aa0306cb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 295 (2022) — Behavioral health dockets; responsibilities of local pretrial services officers.

Responsibilities of local pretrial services officers; behavioral health dockets. Provides that a local pretrial services officer may facilitate the referral to screening for a defendant to be placed in a behavioral health docket as a treatment service.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0327 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100540D (committee substitute) — source
3. Printed as engrossed 22100540D-E (committee substitute) — source
4. SB295ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Judiciary with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• R. Creigh Deeds — primary (person)
• T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100540D introduction
• 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2022-02-03 Impact statement from DPB (SB295)
• 2022-02-14 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-02-14 Reported from Judiciary with amendment (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-15 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-15 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-02-15 Reading of amendment waived
• 2022-02-15 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2022-02-15 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB295E
• 2022-02-15 Printed as engrossed 22100540D-E
• 2022-02-15 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-15 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-02-17 Impact statement from DPB (SB295E)
• 2022-02-22 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-02-22 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-22 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2022-02-24 Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2022-02-28 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-02 Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-03-04 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-03-07 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-07 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-07 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-10 Enrolled
• 2022-03-10 Signed by President
• 2022-03-10 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-11 Impact statement from DPB (SB295ER)
• 2022-03-22 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
• 2022-03-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 327 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ba4bcaf2-207f-4c5b-a550-0d9338a8c40a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).