republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-178.md

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Bill	State Inspector General, Office of the; investigations of abuse/neglect at state psychiatric hosp.	Office of the State Inspector General; investigationsof abuse or neglect at state psychiatric hospitals; report. Directsthe Office of the State Inspector General to (i) develop a plan tofulfill its statutory obligation to fully investigate all complaintsit receives alleging abuse, neglect, or inadequate care at a statepsychiatric hospital and (ii) submit such plan to the Chairmen ofthe House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the SenateCommittee on Education and Health by November 1, 2024. The bill alsorequires the Office to submit an annual report to the General Assemblyon or before November 15 of each year regarding the number of such complaints receivedand the number of complaints that were fully investigated by theOffice.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 178	Virginia SB 178 (2024)	bill		enacted	Barbara A. Favola	4	36	8	2024-01-08	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/e8fde5f0-f69a-4efd-ad02-0a305f83fcb8	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB178	7391ceea51a6ed4940e8020ffb92934bf12ef940db3f979f4e6acd663ea481d3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 178 (2024) — State Inspector General, Office of the; investigations of abuse/neglect at state psychiatric hosp.

Office of the State Inspector General; investigationsof abuse or neglect at state psychiatric hospitals; report. Directsthe Office of the State Inspector General to (i) develop a plan tofulfill its statutory obligation to fully investigate all complaintsit receives alleging abuse, neglect, or inadequate care at a statepsychiatric hospital and (ii) submit such plan to the Chairmen ofthe House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the SenateCommittee on Education and Health by November 1, 2024. The bill alsorequires the Office to submit an annual report to the General Assemblyon or before November 15 of each year regarding the number of such complaints receivedand the number of complaints that were fully investigated by theOffice.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0664 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103983D (committee substitute) — source
3. Printed as engrossed 24103983D-E (committee substitute) — source
4. SB178ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House amendments agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Rereferred from Rehabilitation and Social Services (10-Y 0-N) — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103983D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-08 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2024-01-16 Impact statement from DPB (SB178)
• 2024-01-19 Rereferred from Rehabilitation and Social Services (10-Y 0-N) referral-committee
• 2024-01-19 Rereferred to Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-05 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-08 Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-09 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-09 Reading of amendment waived
• 2024-02-09 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-09 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB178E
• 2024-02-09 Printed as engrossed 24103983D-E
• 2024-02-09 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-09 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-12 Impact statement from DPB (SB178E)
• 2024-02-15 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-15 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-15 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2024-02-20 Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-22 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-23 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-23 Committee amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-23 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2024-02-23 Passed House with amendments BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-23 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-27 House amendments agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) amendment-passage
• 2024-03-04 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-04 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB178ER) passage
• 2024-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (SB178ER)
• 2024-03-04 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-07 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 664 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0664)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e8fde5f0-f69a-4efd-ad02-0a305f83fcb8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).