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type: "Bill"
title: "Suicide; task force to raise public awareness, etc."
description: "Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on its activities related to suicide prevention across the lifespan by December 1, 2017."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2258"
citation: "Virginia HB 2258 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Behavioral Health and Developmental Services", "Health", "Study Commissions", "Committees and Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eileen Filler-Corn"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0aab44bb-5a80-45c7-b7a8-9e4fd30d11f7"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2258"
source_hash: "14c33dae469a16a2dc2a1c7b44905263b27d397caad79bfa757c1828e38b0b80"
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 2258 (2017) — Suicide; task force to raise public awareness, etc.
Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on its activities related to suicide prevention across the lifespan by December 1, 2017.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0464)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0464)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2258ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2258ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17104991D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2258H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103640D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2258)
## Votes
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **50** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **970** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute — **220** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Eileen Filler-Corn — primary (person)
- Janet D. Howell — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- R. Creigh Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103640D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Committee substitute agreed to 17104991D-H1
- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2258H1
- **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 on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-23** Enrolled
- **2017-02-23** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 464 (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/0aab44bb-5a80-45c7-b7a8-9e4fd30d11f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).