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type: "Bill"
title: "Behavioral health dockets; responsibilities of local pretrial services officers."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 295"
citation: "Virginia SB 295 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Creigh Deeds"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba4bcaf2-207f-4c5b-a550-0d9338a8c40a"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB295"
source_hash: "8dedf551d2dcbd3741981d0af9fa5426a411ea55b6c246d2480c7266aa0306cb"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0327)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100540D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB295)
3. **Printed as engrossed 22100540D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB295E)
4. **SB295ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB295ER)
## Votes
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Judiciary with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — **200** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ba4bcaf2-207f-4c5b-a550-0d9338a8c40a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).