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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Mental health first aid training plan; local school board complete development of by July 1, 2014. [HB-2287]
Local school boards; mental health first aid training plan. Requires each local school board, in conjunction with a local community services board located in the local school division, to seek to complete development of a mental health first aid training plan by July 1, 2014, whereby each teacher in the local school division would be required to participate in a 12-hour interactive course initially provided by community services board staff members on the risk factors, warning signs, symptoms, and treatment of depression, anxiety disorders, trauma,
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Sponsored by: Rep. John O'Bannon
Left In Appropriations on 02/05/2013
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Virginia Children's Mental Health Commission; established, report. [HB-2252]
Virginia Children's Mental Health Commission established. Establishes the Virginia Children's Mental Health Commission to promote coordination of services and resources among agencies involved in the delivery of mental health services, including school-based mental health services, for children in the Commonwealth and to increase public awareness of such services and resources.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alfonso Lopez
Tabled In Rules By Voice Vote on 01/22/2013
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Problem Gambling Treatment Fund; established. [HB-2232]
Problem Gambling Treatment Fund established. Establishes the Problem Gambling Treatment Fund for the prevention and treatment of gambling addiction and other problems related to gambling and for the administration of such programs. The Fund shall receive two-tenths of one percent (0.002) of the State Lottery Fund, the State Racing Operations Fund (horse racing), and the revenue received by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services from charitable gaming permit and registration application fees. The bill contains technical amendments.
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Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Greason
Left In Appropriations on 02/05/2013
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Firearms; prohibiting selling, etc., to certain persons. [HB-2221]
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: Rep. Patrick Hope
Left In Militia, Police And Public Safety on 02/06/2013
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Corrections, Department of; exchange of medical and mental health records, etc. [HB-2148]
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: Rep. Mark Keam
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0235) on 03/12/2013
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Magistrates; supervision by Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia. [HB-2091]
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: Rep. Terry Kilgore
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0087) on 03/05/2013
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Methamphetamine manufactory; penalty for allowing minor under age 15, etc., to be present. [HB-1816]
Allowing child or incapacitated person to be present in methamphetamine manufactory; penalty. Provides that any person 18 years of age or older who knowingly allows a child younger than 15 years of age or a mentally incapacitated or physically helpless person to be present in the same dwelling, apartment, unit of a hotel, garage, shed, or vehicle during the manufacture or attempted manufacture of methamphetamine is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not less than 10 nor more than 40 years. Currently, the prohibition applies only
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Sponsored by: Rep. Israel O'Quinn
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0743) on 04/03/2013
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Assault and battery; includes certain employees of DBHDS, penalty. [HB-1751]
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: Rep. Jackson Miller
Failed To Pass In House on 02/23/2013
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Comprehensive Services, Office of; reporting expenditures for children receiving services. [HB-1683]
Office of Comprehensive Services; reporting expenditures for children receiving services. Adds community-based mental health services to the list of services for which expenditures must be reported by the Office of Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families.
Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Bell
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0001) on 02/13/2013
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Mentally incapacitated persons; financial exploitation, penalty. [HB-1682]
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. Jennifer McClellan
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0419) on 03/16/2013
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Temporary detention orders; increases maximum duration person may be detained from 48 to 72 hours. [HB-1680]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Yost
Tabled In Courts Of Justice By Voice Vote on 01/23/2013
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Naloxone; administration by unlicensed individual in cases of opiate overdose. [HB-1672]
Naloxone; administration in cases of opiate overdose. Allows a person to obtain a prescription for and to possess and administer naloxone to a family member or friend for the purpose of counteracting the effects of opiate overdose. The bill also requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to work together with the Department of Health, Department of Health Professions, law-enforcement agencies, substance abuse recovery support organizations, and other stakeholders to conduct pilot programs on the administration of naloxone
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Sponsored by: Rep. John O'Bannon
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0267) on 03/13/2013
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Southwestern Virginia Training Center; closure prohibited. [HB-1669]
Closure of the Southwestern Virginia Training Center prohibited. Provides that the Southwestern Virginia Training Center shall not be closed and shall instead remain open and continue to accept new admissions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Israel O'Quinn
Left In Health, Welfare And Institutions on 02/05/2013
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Southwestern VA Mental Health Institute; DBHDS authorized to convey real property in Smyth County. [HB-1668]
Authorizing DBHDS to convey a portion of the real property known as the Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute to the Mount Rogers Community Services Board. Authorizes the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to convey, without consideration, that portion of the real property known as the Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute located in Marion in Smyth County, which is currently leased by the Mount Rogers Community Services Board, to the Mount Rogers Community Services Board for the purpose of providing services
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Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Crockett-Stark
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0265) on 03/13/2013
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Secure inpatient treatment hearings; report to counsel for respondent. [HB-1619]
Secure inpatient treatment hearings; report to counsel for respondent. Provides that copies of all reports evaluating the condition of a respondent in a hearing for continuation of secure inpatient treatment shall be provided to counsel for the respondent.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jeion Ward
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0258) on 03/13/2013
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Higher education; mental health treatment coordination for certain students. [HB-1609]
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: Rep. Robert Bell
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0735) on 04/03/2013
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Medications; administration by certain employees or contract service providers. [HB-1444]
Administration of medications by employees or contract service providers of providers licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. Provides that employees of or persons providing services pursuant to a contract with a provider licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services may administer insulin, glucagon, and epinephrine pursuant to a written order issued by a prescriber in certain circumstances. The bill provides protection from liability for certain acts related to such administration
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Sponsored by: Rep. John O'Bannon
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0183) on 03/12/2013
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Mandatory outpatient treatment; who may file petition. [HB-1423]
Mandatory outpatient treatment; who may file petition. Allows the community services board serving the county or city in which the person who would be the subject of an order for mandatory outpatient treatment following a period of voluntary or involuntary treatment resides and the community services board serving the county or city where such person receives treatment to petition for an order of mandatory outpatient treatment.
Sponsored by: Rep. John O'Bannon
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0179) on 03/12/2013
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Family health care structures, temporary; zoning provisions, extends time structure must be removed. [HB-1419]
Zoning provisions for temporary family health care structures. Amends requirements governing zoning ordinances for temporary family health care structures by altering the occupancy restriction to allow a married couple, under certain conditions, to reside in a temporary family health care structure and by extending the time by which a temporary family health care structure must be removed from 30 to 60 days from the date on which the temporary family health care structure was last occupied by a mentally or physically impaired person receiving or
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Sponsored by: Rep. Brenda Pogge
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0178) on 03/12/2013
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Mental health experts; appointment in criminal cases not involving insanity defense or competency. [HB-1365]
Appointment of mental health experts in criminal cases not involving insanity defense or competency to stand trial. Provides that in a felony criminal case for an alleged crime other than capital murder, the attorney for the Commonwealth or the defendant may, at least 60 days prior to trial, move the court to require a mental health evaluation of the defendant. Upon such motion, and for good cause shown, the court shall conduct a hearing to consider evidence of mental health issues relevant to the trial or sentencing of the defendant when consideration
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Sponsored by: Sen. Joseph Morrissey
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/05/2013