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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Temporary detention orders; increases maximum duration person may be detained from 48 to 72 hours. [SB-996]
Temporary detention orders; duration. Increases the maximum duration that a person may be detained pursuant to a temporary detention order from 48 to 72 hours. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2014, and is contingent upon an appropriation of general funds effectuating the provisions of this bill.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Barker
Left In Appropriations on 02/18/2013
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Training centers; imposes moratorium on closure, requirements of settlement agreement. [SB-972]
Closure of training centers; moratorium. Imposes a moratorium on the closure of training centers for individuals with intellectual disabilities until such time as the General Assembly adopts a plan for the closure of training centers that satisfies the requirements of the settlement agreement between the Commonwealth and the United States Department of Justice, and requires the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to submit a preliminary plan developed in consultation with the Chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations and Senate Committee
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Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Black
Stricken At Request Of Patron In Education And Health (13-y 0-n) on 01/17/2013
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Barrier crimes; clarifies individual crimes included in background check and barrier crime statutes. [SB-97]
Barrier crimes; listing of crimes. Clarifies the individual crimes included in the background check and barrier crime statutes affecting the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, certain licensees of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, the Department of Social Services, and certain licensees of the Department of Social Services.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Edwards
Left In Courts Of Justice on 11/30/2012
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Mental health assessments; juvenile and domestic relations court to order for certain juveniles. [SB-928]
Mental health assessments for certain juveniles. Requires the juvenile and domestic relations court, when the attorney for the Commonwealth is seeking commitment of a juvenile, to order that an interdisciplinary team evaluate the service needs of a juvenile who has (i) been placed in a secure facility, (ii) had a mental health assessment completed by the secure facility that has identified a mental health need or mental illness, and (iii) been adjudicated delinquent and found eligible for commitment. A report of the evaluation must be filed with
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jill Vogel
Passed By Indefinitely In Courts Of Justice With Letter (13-y 0-n) on 01/21/2013
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Emergency custody and involuntary temporary detention; transportation. [SB-920]
Emergency custody and involuntary temporary detention; transportation. Requires magistrates to consider a request to authorize alternative transportation, if available, for persons subject to an emergency custody or involuntary temporary detention order if the order is based upon a finding that the person who is the subject of the order has a mental illness and that there exists a substantial likelihood that, as a result of mental illness, the person will, in the near future, suffer serious harm due to his lack of capacity to protect himself from
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Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Carrico
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0371) on 03/14/2013
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Criminal history background record checks; barrier crimes. [SB-868]
Criminal history record checks; barrier crimes. Clarifies the list of barrier crimes for individuals seeking employment or seeking to provide contract services at nursing homes, home care organizations, hospices, state facilities and private providers licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, community services boards, behavioral health authorities, assisted living facilities, adult day care centers, children's welfare agencies, family day homes approved by family day systems, and children's residential facilities;
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Edwards
Passed By Indefinitely In Courts Of Justice (15-y 0-n) on 01/30/2013
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Magistrates; supervision by Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia. [SB-753]
Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia; supervision of magistrates. Requires the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court to establish and require magistrates be available for performing certain duties related to issuing temporary detention orders. Under current law, the chief judge of each district court is responsible for this oversight. The change makes this responsibility consistent with the current supervisory structure set out in § 19.2-35, which grants supervisory authority over the magistrates to the Executive Secretary. This
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Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Stuart
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0321) on 03/13/2013
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Mentally incapacitated persons; financial exploitation, penalty. [SB-706]
Financial exploitation of incapacitated persons; penalty. Provides that it is unlawful for any person who knows or should know that another person suffers from mental incapacity to, through the use of that other person's mental incapacity, take, obtain, or convert money or other thing of value belonging to that other person with the intent to permanently deprive him thereof. A violation is punishable as larceny.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0452) on 03/16/2013
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Community Colleges, State Board for; development of mental health services. [SB-372]
State Board for Community Colleges; mental health services. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges to develop standards and policies directing community colleges to adopt, incrementally and as resources become available, a mental health services action plan.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Barker
Left In Education And Health on 11/30/2012
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Assault and battery; Class 1 misdemeanor against a family or household member. [SB-224]
Assault and battery of a family or household member; penalties. Provides for a Class 1 misdemeanor for a battery through the application of physical force against a family or household member. This provision addresses the decision in U.S. v. White from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2010. The proposal also expands the list of offenses that may be counted as prior convictions for the purposes of enhancing the penalty for assault and battery of a family or household member to include unlawful wounding under § 18.2-51 and nonmalicious injury
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Herring
Left In Militia, Police And Public Safety on 11/29/2012
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Higher education; mental health treatment coordination for certain students. [SB-1342]
Higher education; mental health treatment coordination. Provides that the governing board of each public four-year institution of higher education may establish written memoranda of understanding with its local community services board or behavioral health authority and with local hospitals and other local mental health facilities in order to expand the scope of services available to students seeking treatment. The bill requires each memorandum to designate a contact person to be notified when a student is involuntarily committed or when a student
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Petersen
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0714) on 03/23/2013
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Temporary detention; execution of order, transportation. [SB-1323]
Temporary detention; execution of order; transportation. Requires the law-enforcement agency that is specified by a magistrate to execute a temporary detention order and provide transportation to do so by 5:00 p.m. on the day following receipt of the magistrate's order.
Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Garrett
Stricken At The Request Of Patron In Courts Of Justice (15-y 0-n) on 01/30/2013
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Corrections, Department of; exchange of medical and mental health records, etc. [SB-1217]
Department of Corrections; exchange of medical records. Authorizes the Department of Corrections to exchange medical and mental health information and records of any person committed to the Department with the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, the Department of Social Services, and any local department of social services in the Commonwealth for the purposes of reentry planning and post-incarceration placement and services.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Newman
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0164) on 03/12/2013
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Assault and battery; includes certain employees of DBHDS, penalty. [SB-1182]
Crimes; assault and battery. Includes an employee or other individual who provides control, care, or treatment of sexually violent predators committed to the custody of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services within the enhanced penalty provision of the assault and battery section.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jill Vogel
Passed By Indefinitely In Finance (15-y 0-n) on 01/29/2013
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Firearms; prohibiting selling, etc., to certain persons. [SB-1109]
Prohibiting selling, etc., of firearms to certain persons; penalty. Adds persons found legally incompetent or mentally incapacitated, persons involuntarily admitted to a mental health facility or sent for involuntary outpatient mental health treatment, and those who were the subject of a temporary detention order and subsequently agreed to voluntary admission to a mental health facility to the list of persons for whom it is a Class 6 felony to sell, barter, give, or furnish a firearm if the seller knows that the person is prohibited from possessing
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Passed By Indefinitely In Finance (15-y 0-n) on 01/29/2013
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Community Colleges, State Board for; Board shall develop mental health referral policies, etc. [SB-1078]
State Board for Community Colleges; mental health policies. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges to develop a mental health referral policy that would require community colleges to designate at least one individual at each college to serve as a point of contact with an emergency services system clinician at a local community services board, or another qualified mental health services provider, for screenings and referrals of students who may have emergency or urgent mental health needs.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Barker
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0049) on 02/22/2013
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Assault and battery; Class 1 misdemeanor against a family or household member. [HB-992]
Assault and battery of a family or household member; penalties. Provides for a Class 1 misdemeanor for the assault followed by a battery through the application of physical force against a member of a family or household member. The bill addresses the decision in U.S. v. White from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2010.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Loupassi
Left In Militia, Police And Public Safety on 11/29/2012
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Higher educational institutions; mental health policies. [HB-697]
Higher education; mental health. Requires the governing boards of each public institution of higher education to develop and implement a policy requesting each student to identify points of contact to be notified should the student experience a mental health crisis while attending the institution. The policy may require the student to waive any privacy or confidentiality privilege granted to him under law and related to mental health care if a crisis were to arise and the points of contact were to be notified.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
Left In Education on 11/29/2012
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Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, Department of; list of licensed providers on website. [HB-2328]
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; listing of licensed providers. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to list providers included on a website of the Department's Office of Licensing by the assumed or fictitious name under which the provider is doing business in the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Rep. Benjamin Cline
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0451) on 03/16/2013
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Community Colleges, State Board for; Board shall develop mental health referral policies, etc. [HB-2322]
State Board for Community Colleges; mental health policies. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges to develop a mental health referral policy that would require community colleges to designate at least one individual at each college to serve as a point of contact with an emergency services system clinician at a local community services board, or another qualified mental health services provider, for screenings and referrals of students who may have emergency or urgent mental health needs.
Sponsored by: Sen. Scott Surovell
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0606) on 03/20/2013