republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-1895.md

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Bill	Involuntary temporary detention orders; amends definition of "psychiatric emergency department."	Involuntary temporary detention orders; definition of "psychiatric emergency department." Amends the definition of "psychiatric emergency department" as it relates to involuntary temporary detention orders to remove the requirement that a psychiatric emergency department be located adjacent to a facility licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and to add requirements that a psychiatric emergency department (i) be licensed by either the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services or the Department of Health and (ii) provide that at least one physician who is primarily responsible for the emergency department be on duty and physically present at all times that the hospital is operating as an emergency service. This bill applies to hospitals with a psychiatric emergency department located in the City of Hampton for the purpose of employing certain trained individuals to perform evaluations to determine whether a person meets the criteria for temporary detention for behavioral health treatment and has an expiration date of July 1, 2026, and is identical to SB 1094.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1895	Virginia HB 1895 (2025)	bill		enacted	Rodney T. Willett	6	34	9	2025-01-06	2025-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/efe72768-51bc-4b56-81b7-3707724bbfce	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1895	236d7935a5bd8a2d517004d5ab635552f48ede0dde8d444c5ad5b90e24288438	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1895 (2025) — Involuntary temporary detention orders; amends definition of "psychiatric emergency department."

Involuntary temporary detention orders; definition of "psychiatric emergency department." Amends the definition of "psychiatric emergency department" as it relates to involuntary temporary detention orders to remove the requirement that a psychiatric emergency department be located adjacent to a facility licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and to add requirements that a psychiatric emergency department (i) be licensed by either the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services or the Department of Health and (ii) provide that at least one physician who is primarily responsible for the emergency department be on duty and physically present at all times that the hospital is operating as an emergency service. This bill applies to hospitals with a psychiatric emergency department located in the City of Hampton for the purpose of employing certain trained individuals to perform evaluations to determine whether a person meets the criteria for temporary detention for behavioral health treatment and has an expiration date of July 1, 2026, and is identical to SB 1094.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HHS Sub: Behavioral Health Amendments (committee substitute) — source
5. Health and Human Services Amendment (committee substitute) — source
6. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) and rereferred to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) and rereferred to Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rodney T. Willett — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25100461D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-06 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2025-01-14 Assigned sub: Behavioral Health referral-committee
• 2025-01-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1895)
• 2025-01-28 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) and referring to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-30 Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) and referred to Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-30 Assigned Approps sub: Health & Human Resources referral-committee
• 2025-01-31 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Health and Human Services Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-02-03 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2025-02-03 Printed as engrossed 25100461D-E
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2025-02-04 Passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-04 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1895)
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2025-02-13 Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-17 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)
• 2025-02-17 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-18 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-18 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1895ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-11 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1895)
• 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 210 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0210)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/efe72768-51bc-4b56-81b7-3707724bbfce. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).