republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/sb-1439.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 HB 1937.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	SB 1439	Virginia SB 1439 (2025)	bill		enacted	Tara A. Durant	5	31	5	2025-01-17	2025-03-19	openstates	ocd-bill/88c8240a-ddba-410d-b14c-54eec405cc8a	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1439	fee774cf6c270bf32af00b3a7dd9b01049ca5dd5ea80d152e172eb7a3a04a648	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1439 (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 HB 1937.

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. Education and Health Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. SEH Sub: Health Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute (11-Y 4-N) — 11–4 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed House (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Tara A. Durant — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-17 Presented and ordered printed 25104446D introduction
• 2025-01-17 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2025-01-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1439)
• 2025-01-28 Assigned Education sub: Health referral-committee
• 2025-01-30 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (11-Y 4-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-30 Committee substitute printed 25105592D-S1 substitution
• 2025-01-31 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1439)
• 2025-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-31 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-31 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-02-03 Education and Health Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-03 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-07 Placed on Calendar
• 2025-02-07 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-07 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2025-02-11 Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-13 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-14 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-14 Passed House (96-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-18 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-18 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1439ER) passage
• 2025-02-18 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-19 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1439)
• 2025-02-20 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 enrolled
• 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 156 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-19 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0156)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/88c8240a-ddba-410d-b14c-54eec405cc8a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).