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Bill	Suicide fatality review teams, local and regional; established, membership, penalty.	Local and regional suicide fatality review teams; penalty. Permits localities or combinations of localities to establish a local or regional suicide fatality review team. The bill provides exemptions from the Virginia Freedom of Information Act for information and records obtained or created regarding a review of a fatality by such team.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2026	HB 513	Virginia HB 513 (2026)	bill		enacted	Marty Martinez	5	34	9	2026-01-13	2026-04-06	openstates	ocd-bill/c7431509-05af-4603-82a4-9f0ee4ed97d2	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB513	0974664d4ec1746b1389ba17e3359499763a3000d9dd651bdacf857fef3ab7f4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 513 (2026) — Suicide fatality review teams, local and regional; established, membership, penalty.

Local and regional suicide fatality review teams; penalty. Permits localities or combinations of localities to establish a local or regional suicide fatality review team. The bill provides exemptions from the Virginia Freedom of Information Act for information and records obtained or created regarding a review of a fatality by such team.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Behavioral Health Subcommittee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. Health and Human Services Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage R — 39–1 (pass) · upper
• Passage R — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Reconsider R — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• H VOTE: — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Rereferred from Education and Health — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws and Technology — 14–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Marty Martinez — primary (person)
• Karen R. "Kacey" Carnegie — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Callsen — cosponsor (person)
• Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
• Virgil Thornton — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-13 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26104689D filing, introduction
• 2026-01-13 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2026-01-23 Assigned sub: Behavioral Health referral-committee
• 2026-01-29 House subcommittee offered
• 2026-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2026-01-30 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB513)
• 2026-02-03 Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2026-02-03 Committee substitute printed 26105562D-H1 substitution
• 2026-02-05 Read first time reading-1
• 2026-02-06 Read second time reading-2
• 2026-02-06 committee substitute agreed to substitution
• 2026-02-06 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2026-02-09 Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N 0-A) passage, reading-3
• 2026-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2026-02-10 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2026-02-19 Rereferred from Education and Health to General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) referral-committee
• 2026-02-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB513)
• 2026-02-25 Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2026-02-27 Rules suspended
• 2026-02-27 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (37-Y 0-N 0-A)
• 2026-02-27 Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
• 2026-03-02 Read third time reading-3
• 2026-03-02 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A) passage
• 2026-03-02 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
• 2026-03-02 Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N 0-A) passage
• 2026-03-06 Enrolled enrolled
• 2026-03-06 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB513ER) passage
• 2026-03-06 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB513)
• 2026-03-06 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2026-03-06 Signed by President passage
• 2026-03-10 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2026-03-10 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 executive-receipt
• 2026-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 158 (effective 7/1/2026) executive-signature
• 2026-04-06 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0158)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c7431509-05af-4603-82a4-9f0ee4ed97d2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).