republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-1937.md

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Bill	Acute psychiatric bed registry; patient privacy and data security, etc.	Acute psychiatric bed registry; Bed Registry Advisory Council established; patient privacy and data security; Virginia Freedom of Information Act exemption. Requires the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to include provisions for the protection of patient privacy and data security pursuant to state and federal law and regulations in contracts with private entities for the administration of the acute psychiatric bed registry. The bill requires the Commissioner to create the Bed Registry Advisory Council to advise the Commissioner and any such private entity on the administration of such registry and to review and approve requests for access to data from the registry. The bill also creates a Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemption for information submitted to such registry. This bill is identical to SB 1439.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1937	Virginia HB 1937 (2025)	bill		enacted	Patrick A. Hope	4	32	8	2025-01-06	2025-03-19	openstates	ocd-bill/70df86c3-3e4a-427e-bdf2-3068cbe1532d	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1937	44ee10089653db552ed34508ecfda99ccfbaa12cd50cc06d46bbd95c7ca3d075	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1937 (2025) — Acute psychiatric bed registry; patient privacy and data security, etc.

Acute psychiatric bed registry; Bed Registry Advisory Council established; patient privacy and data security; Virginia Freedom of Information Act exemption. Requires the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to include provisions for the protection of patient privacy and data security pursuant to state and federal law and regulations in contracts with private entities for the administration of the acute psychiatric bed registry. The bill requires the Commissioner to create the Bed Registry Advisory Council to advise the Commissioner and any such private entity on the administration of such registry and to review and approve requests for access to data from the registry. The bill also creates a Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemption for information submitted to such registry. This bill is identical to SB 1439.

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. Health and Human Services Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Patrick A. Hope — primary (person)
• Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25104280D 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 (HB1937)
• 2025-01-23 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-01-28 Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-28 Committee substitute printed 25105663D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-30 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-31 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1937)
• 2025-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-31 Health and Human Services Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-31 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-03 Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-03 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2025-02-03 Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-04 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 (HB1937ER) 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 (HB1937)
• 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
• 2025-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 149 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-19 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0149)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/70df86c3-3e4a-427e-bdf2-3068cbe1532d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).