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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Employment First initiative; Secretary of Health and Human Resources to develop in State, report. [HJR-23]
Employment First initiative; report. Requests the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to develop and implement an Employment First initiative for the Commonwealth to increase opportunities for meaningful employment in integrated community settings for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joseph Morrissey
House: Left In Rules on 02/14/2012
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Community-based mental health services; individuals transitioning from state hospitals, report. [HJR-18]
Study; community-based mental health services for individuals transitioning from state hospitals; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study the availability of community-based mental health services for individuals transitioning from state hospitals to community-based care and to identify service gaps and service needs and develop recommendations for addressing any service gaps or service needs in this area.
Sponsored by: Rep. John O'Bannon
House: Left In Rules on 02/14/2012
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Financial exploitation of incapacitated adults; penalties. [HB-987]
Financial exploitation of elderly or incapacitated adults; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 5 felony to knowingly, by deception, intimidation, undue influence, coercion, harassment, duress, or misrepresentation, use, obtain, convert, or take control of an elderly or incapacitated adult's property or financial resources with the intent to temporarily or permanently deprive the adult of the use, benefit, or possession of the property or financial resources. If the violation is by a caregiver or person with a fiduciary relationship it is a Class
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Sponsored by: Rep. Christopher Peace
House: Left In Appropriations on 02/20/2012
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Crimes against incapacitated adults; penalty. [HB-982]
Crimes against incapacitated adults; penalty. Provides that any person who commits an offense set forth in Chapter 4 (crimes against the person), Chapter 5 (crimes against property), or Chapter 6 (crimes involving fraud) of Title 18.2 knowing or having reason to know that the victim of the offense is an incapacitated adult is guilty of a separate and distinct Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill adds that if the offender is a person responsible for the care of the victim, punishment shall include a mandatory minimum term of confinement of 30 days if the
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Sponsored by: Rep. James Scott
House: Incorporated By Courts Of Justice on 02/03/2012
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Involuntary commitment; criteria for commitment. [HB-972]
Criteria for involuntary commitment. Provides that when a court is to make a decision as to whether it should involuntarily commit a person for 30 days when less restrictive alternatives are inappropriate, it shall consider, in addition to other relevant evidence, whether the person recently has been found by a court to be unrestorably incompetent to stand trial.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Bell
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0451) on 03/30/2012
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Barrier crimes; adds extortion and felony violations of protective orders to statute. [HB-971]
Barrier crimes. Adds the following crimes to various barrier crimes statutes: abduction, extortion, and felony violations of protective orders. People who have been convicted of or are the subject of pending charges of one of those crimes will not be able to work in a licensed nursing home, home care organization, or hospice and cannot work, volunteer, or provide services on a regular basis at a children's residential facility that is regulated or operated by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, certain structured residential
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Bell
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0383) on 03/23/2012
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Sexually violent predators; conducting probable cause hearing. [HB-944]
Commitment of sexually violent predators; probable cause hearing; use of video and audio communication system. Provides that the hearing to determine whether probable cause exists to believe that a person is a sexually violent predator who should be civilly committed may be conducted by using a two-way electronic video and audio communication system.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ron Villanueva
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0246) on 03/13/2012
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Higher educational institutions; mental health and parental notification policies. [HB-900]
Higher education; mental health and parental notification policies. Provides that any person licensed to diagnose and treat mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders who is treating a student may determine to withhold parental notification of a dependent student's mental health treatment if such person determines that the notification may result in substantial harm. Currently, only a physician or clinical psychologist can make such a determination.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eileen Filler-Corn
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0448) on 03/30/2012
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Financial exploitation of elderly or vulnerable adults; penalty. [HB-882]
Financial exploitation of elderly or vulnerable adults; barrier crimes; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 5 felony to knowingly, by deception, intimidation, undue influence, coercion, harassment, duress, or misrepresentation, use, obtain, convert, or take control of an elderly or vulnerable adult's property or financial resources with the intent to temporarily or permanently deprive the adult of the use, benefit, or possession of the property or financial resources. If the violation is by a caregiver or person with a fiduciary relationship, it
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Sickles
House: Incorporated By Courts Of Justice on 01/30/2012
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Higher educational institutions; may require any accepted student provide complete record. [HB-852]
Student records; mental health. Clarifies that an institution of higher education may require that any accepted student provide a complete student record, including any mental health record, from not only his high school but also any other institution of higher education he has attended.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Yost
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0382) on 03/23/2012
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Crimes against incapacitated or elder adults; penalty. [HB-700]
Crimes against incapacitated or elder adults; penalty. Provides that any person who commits an offense set forth in Chapter 4 (crimes against the person), Chapter 5 (crimes against property), or Chapter 6 (crimes involving fraud) of Title 18.2, knowing or having reason to know that the victim of the offense is an incapacitated or elder adult is guilty of a separate and distinct Class 1 misdemeanor if the underlying offense is a misdemeanor and a separate and distinct Class 6 felony if the underlying offense is a felony. The bill also provides that
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kenneth Plum
House: Incorporated By Courts Of Justice on 01/30/2012
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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
House: Continued To 2013 In Education By Voice Vote on 02/08/2012
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Community Colleges, State Board for; development of mental health services. [HB-662]
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: Rep. Vivian Watts
House: Left In Education on 02/14/2012
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Judicial authorization of treatment; advance directives. [HB-638]
Judicial authorization of treatment; advance directives. Provides that a court may authorize medical treatment for an incapacitated person when there is no available person with legal authority to make such decisions under (i) the advance directive of the incapacitated person; (ii) the regulations promulgated by the State Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; or (iii) other applicable law. The court may not authorize treatment that is contrary to the provisions of an advance directive or is proven by a preponderance of the evidence
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Sponsored by: Rep. Christopher Stolle
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0378) on 03/23/2012
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Mental health and developmental services; replaces certain terminology, technical amendments. [HB-552]
Mental health and developmental services; terminology. Replaces the terms "mental retardation" and "mental deficiency" with the term "intellectual disability" when referring to the diagnosis of, and with the term "developmental" when referring to services for, individuals with intellectual disabilities; replaces the terms "mentally retarded," "mentally deficient," and "mentally defective" with the term "individual with intellectual disability"; replaces the terms "consumer," "patient," and "resident" with the term "individual receiving services"
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Sponsored by: Rep. Eileen Filler-Corn
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0507) on 04/04/2012
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Discharge planning from state hospital or training center; right to return to place of residence. [HB-496]
Discharge from state hospital or training center; return to place of residence. Provides that community services boards shall, as part of the discharge planning process for each individual released from a state hospital or training center, inform the consumer or his legally authorized representative that he may choose to return to the county or city in which he resided prior to admission or to any other county or city in the Commonwealth. The bill provides that the community services board serving the county or city in which the individual chooses
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Sponsored by: Sen. Rosalyn Dance
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0656) on 04/06/2012
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Mandatory outpatient treatment hearing; determination of treatment prior to release from commitment. [HB-476]
Mandatory outpatient treatment hearing prior to release from commitment. Provides that prior to the release of a person who has been involuntarily admitted or who has been the subject of a temporary detention order and chose to voluntarily admit himself, a hearing shall be held, upon the motion of the treating physician, a family member or personal representative of the person, or the community services board, to determine whether such person should be ordered to mandatory outpatient treatment upon release if such person has been involuntarily admitted
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Albo
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0300) on 03/21/2012
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Involuntary commitment; alters criteria for ordering mandatory outpatient treatment. [HB-475]
Involuntary commitment; mandatory outpatient treatment. Alters the criteria for ordering a person to mandatory outpatient treatment or discharging a person for a period of mandatory outpatient treatment following involuntary commitment, replacing the requirements that the person has the capacity to understand and comply with the treatment, has expressed an interest in outpatient treatment, and has agreed to comply with the treatment with a requirement that the person has agreed to abide by the treatment plan and has the ability to do so. The bill
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Albo
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0501) on 04/04/2012
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Financial exploitation of elderly or incapacitated adults; guilty of a Class 5 felony, etc. [HB-409]
Financial exploitation of elderly and incapacitated; penalty. Provides that any person who knowingly exploits the impaired mental or physical capacity of an incapacitated adult or an adult (defined in the section as 60 years old or older) by deception, intimidation, undue influence, coercion, harassment, duress, or misrepresentation to use, obtain, convert, or take control of or endeavor to use, obtain, convert, or take control of the incapacitated adult's or adult's money, assets, property, or financial resources with the intent to deprive the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
House: Incorporated By Courts Of Justice on 01/30/2012
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Substance Abuse Recovery Support Services Grant Program; established, report. [HB-271]
Substance Abuse Recovery Support Services Grant Fund and Program established. Establishes the Substance Abuse Recovery Support Services Grant Program to provide grants to recovery support services providers in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to convene a work group of stakeholders to develop criteria for awarding grants.
Sponsored by: Rep. John O'Bannon
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0752) on 04/18/2012