republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-515.md

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Bill	State hospitals; discharge of individuals.	Discharge of individuals from state hospitalsor training centers. Provides that after an individual's treatment team determines that the individual is ready for discharge, the Commissionerof Behavioral Health and Developmental Services has the authorityto discharge the individual, with an appropriate plan, after 15 daysover the objection of the community services board or guardian. Thebill requires the Department to promulgate regulations providingfor an expedited discharge process for persons in state hospitalsor training centers that are identified as needing intellectual ordevelopmental disability services and to develop and implement astatewide training program for state hospital employees and communityservices board liaisons designed to improve discharge planning outcomes.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 515	Virginia HB 515 (2024)	bill		enacted	Patrick A. Hope	4	35	8	2024-01-08	2024-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/cbf18548-bb1b-427c-8400-0046c98e9034	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB515	b4d32cc4581e7f94318d9ffe02f5b2c55224cedf6c33d56e222a47065115d23a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 515 (2024) — State hospitals; discharge of individuals.

Discharge of individuals from state hospitalsor training centers. Provides that after an individual's treatment team determines that the individual is ready for discharge, the Commissionerof Behavioral Health and Developmental Services has the authorityto discharge the individual, with an appropriate plan, after 15 daysover the objection of the community services board or guardian. Thebill requires the Department to promulgate regulations providingfor an expedited discharge process for persons in state hospitalsor training centers that are identified as needing intellectual ordevelopmental disability services and to develop and implement astatewide training program for state hospital employees and communityservices board liaisons designed to improve discharge planning outcomes.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0290 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24107017D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB515ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104791D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Appropriations (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Patrick A. Hope — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104791D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-08 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Assigned sub: Behavioral Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-01 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-01 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-02-06 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-06 Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-06 Committee substitute printed 24107017D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-06 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-06 Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources referral-committee
• 2024-02-07 Impact statement from DPB (HB515H1)
• 2024-02-07 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-09 Reported from Appropriations (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-11 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-12 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-12 Committee substitute agreed to 24107017D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-12 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB515H1 substitution
• 2024-02-13 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-19 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-23 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-26 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-26 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-29 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-29 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB515ER) passage
• 2024-02-29 Impact statement from DPB (HB515ER)
• 2024-02-29 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-03 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 290 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0290)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cbf18548-bb1b-427c-8400-0046c98e9034. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).