Fabio
84 lines
5.0 KiB
Markdown
84 lines
5.0 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "Bill"
|
||
title: "Inmates; inpatient psychiatric hospital admission."
|
||
description: "Requires that if the person having custody of an inmate of a local correctional facility files a petition for inpatient psychiatric hospital admission of the inmate, the person having custody shall ensure that the appropriate community services board or behavioral health authority is advised of the need for a preadmission screening. The bill further requires the person having custody of the inmate to contact the director or other senior management at the community services board or behavioral health authority if such board or authority does not respond to the advisement that a preadmission screening is necessary or fails to complete the preadmission screening."
|
||
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
|
||
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
|
||
session: "2017"
|
||
identifier: "HB 2184"
|
||
citation: "Virginia HB 2184 (2017)"
|
||
classification: ["bill"]
|
||
subjects: ["Behavioral Health and Developmental Services", "Criminal Procedure", "Health", "Prisons and Other Methods of Correction"]
|
||
status: "enacted"
|
||
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph R. Yost"]
|
||
version_count: 4
|
||
action_count: 18
|
||
vote_count: 6
|
||
first_action: "2017-01-11"
|
||
last_action: "2017-03-13"
|
||
source: "openstates"
|
||
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/67c7f601-1da4-47ed-91fc-281a70be1730"
|
||
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2184"
|
||
source_hash: "e96fca96ac0f2c06ad4f248aabfced82f98c8e0ffa60d61a93fb0d58e72bcc93"
|
||
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 HB 2184 (2017) — Inmates; inpatient psychiatric hospital admission.
|
||
|
||
Requires that if the person having custody of an inmate of a local correctional facility files a petition for inpatient psychiatric hospital admission of the inmate, the person having custody shall ensure that the appropriate community services board or behavioral health authority is advised of the need for a preadmission screening. The bill further requires the person having custody of the inmate to contact the director or other senior management at the community services board or behavioral health authority if such board or authority does not respond to the advisement that a preadmission screening is necessary or fails to complete the preadmission screening.
|
||
|
||
## Version chain
|
||
|
||
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
|
||
|
||
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0463)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0463)
|
||
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2184ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2184ER)
|
||
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102034D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2184)
|
||
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17102034D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2184E)
|
||
|
||
## Votes
|
||
|
||
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
|
||
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
|
||
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
|
||
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — **20–0** (pass) · legislature
|
||
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
|
||
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
|
||
|
||
## Sponsors
|
||
|
||
- Joseph R. Yost — primary (person)
|
||
- N.D. "Rocky" Holcomb III — cosponsor (person)
|
||
|
||
## Timeline
|
||
|
||
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
|
||
|
||
- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102034D `introduction`
|
||
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2017-01-16** Assigned Courts sub: Mental Health `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2017-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
|
||
- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
|
||
- **2017-02-06** Committee amendment agreed to
|
||
- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House as amended HB2184E
|
||
- **2017-02-06** Printed as engrossed 17102034D-E
|
||
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
|
||
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
|
||
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2017-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
|
||
- **2017-02-20** Enrolled
|
||
- **2017-02-20** Signed by Speaker
|
||
- **2017-02-21** Signed by President
|
||
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
|
||
- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
|
||
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 463 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
|
||
|
||
## Source
|
||
|
||
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/67c7f601-1da4-47ed-91fc-281a70be1730`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
|
||
|