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2024 SESSION

24103909D
HOUSE BILL NO. 50
Offered January 10, 2024
Prefiled December 21, 2023
A BILL to direct Central State Hospital to designate additional beds as psychiatric beds.
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Patrons-- Jones, Clark, Cohen, Convirs-Fowler, Henson, Maldonado and Martinez
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Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That Central State Hospital shall designate additional beds as forensic and psychiatric beds. Such beds shall be prioritized for use by patients from the Central Virginia Region and the availability of such beds shall be included in reporting to the acute psychiatric bed registry established in § 37.2-308.1 of the Code of Virginia.