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2021 SESSION
SB 569 DBHDS and VSP; mobile applications, mental health and public safety.
Introduced by: Siobhan S. Dunnavant | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; Department of State Police; mobile applications; mental health and public safety. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) to develop or obtain a mental health mobile application to facilitate the provision of crisis intervention services by licensed clinicians to individuals in the Commonwealth through calls, texts, and online chat portals. The bill requires the mobile application to be integrated with the crisis intervention phone hotline established as part of System Transformation Excellence and Performance (STEP-VA). The Secretary of Health and Human Resources is directed to promote, market, and advertise the use of such application using existing resources.
The bill also requires the Department of State Police, in coordination with the Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center, to (i) develop or obtain a public safety mobile application to enable individuals in the Commonwealth to furnish confidential tips to the Department of State Police through text, audio, images, or video concerning a suspected, anticipated, or completed criminal violation or a school-related safety concern and (ii) develop a referral system to ensure that such confidential tips are referred to the appropriate law-enforcement agency, school board, threat assessment team, or other relevant entity. The Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security is directed to promote, market, and advertise the use of such application using existing resources.
The provisions of the bill related to an application developed by DBHDS have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2021. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.
FULL TEXT
- 01/07/20 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101473D pdf | impact statement
- 01/28/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20106691D-S1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/07/20 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101473D
- 01/07/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/16/20 Senate: Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/16/20 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 01/28/20 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20106691D-S1
- 01/29/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/20 Senate: Read second time
- 01/30/20 Senate: Committee amendment rejected
- 01/30/20 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/30/20 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 20106691D-S1
- 01/30/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB569S1
- 01/31/20 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/13/20 House: Read first time
- 02/13/20 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 02/13/20 House: Assigned HWI sub: Behavioral Health
- 02/17/20 House: Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2021 by voice vote
- 02/25/20 House: Continued to 2021 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
- 12/04/20 House: Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions