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type: "Bill"
title: "State Inspector General, Office of the; investigations of abuse/neglect at state psychiatric hosp."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 178"
citation: "Virginia SB 178 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara A. Favola"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e8fde5f0-f69a-4efd-ad02-0a305f83fcb8"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB178"
source_hash: "7391ceea51a6ed4940e8020ffb92934bf12ef940db3f979f4e6acd663ea481d3"
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 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](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0664)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103983D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB178)
3. **Printed as engrossed 24103983D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB178E)
4. **SB178ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB178ER)
## Votes
- House amendments agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Rereferred from Rehabilitation and Social Services (10-Y 0-N) — **100** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **970** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e8fde5f0-f69a-4efd-ad02-0a305f83fcb8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).