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2024 SESSION
SB 34 Temporary detention; certified evaluators, report.
Introduced by: Mamie E. Locke | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Temporary detention; certified evaluators; report. Authorizes hospitals with a psychiatric emergency department located in the City of Hampton to employ certain trained individuals to perform evaluations to determine whether a person meets the criteria for temporary detention for behavioral health treatment. The bill requires participating hospitals with psychiatric emergency departments in the City of Hampton to annually report the length of time between when a person who is the subject of an emergency custody order arrives at the psychiatric emergency department of a participating hospital and when the temporary detention order evaluation is completed and (ii) the number of (a) admissions, (b) psychiatric emergency department visits, (c) temporary detention order evaluations completed, (d) temporary detention orders executed, (e) individuals under temporary detention admitted to the participating hospital, and (f) individuals transferred from the psychiatric emergency department of the participating hospital to a state facility to the Senate Committee on Education and Health, the House Committee on Health and Human Services, and the Behavioral Health Commission. The bill requires participating hospitals with psychiatric emergency departments in the City of Hampton to report monthly to the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services the number of (a) crisis evaluations conducted each month; (b) temporary detention orders executed as a result of such evaluations and the percentage of evaluations such temporary detention orders represent; (c) reportable events associated with such temporary detention orders and the percentage of temporary detention orders that such reportable events represent; (d) certain reportable events; and (e) other events. The bill requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to submit by October 1, 2026, to the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Health and Human Services an evaluation of the overall effectiveness of certified evaluators conducting temporary detention order evaluations pursuant to the bill. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2026.
FULL TEXT
- 12/16/23 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101203D pdf | impact statement
- 02/01/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24106740D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/12/24 Senate: Printed as engrossed 24106740D-ES1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/28/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24108460D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/25/24 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB34ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/17/24 Senate: Reenrolled bill text (SB34ER2) pdf
- 04/17/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0780) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House amendments adopted
- House amendments engrossed
- House amendments not adopted
- Senate amendments
- Governor's recommendation
HISTORY
- 12/16/23 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101203D
- 12/16/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/26/24 Senate: Assigned Education and Health Sub: Health
- 02/01/24 Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24106740D-S1
- 02/01/24 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/08/24 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/24 Senate: Read second time
- 02/12/24 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/12/24 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 24106740D-S1
- 02/12/24 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/12/24 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/12/24 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendments SB34ES1
- 02/12/24 Senate: Printed as engrossed 24106740D-ES1
- 02/12/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/24 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/24 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/15/24 House: Read first time
- 02/15/24 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/16/24 House: Referred from Courts of Justice by voice vote
- 02/16/24 House: Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
- 02/27/24 House: Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/24 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/28/24 House: Reported from Appropriations with substitute (21-Y 1-N)
- 02/28/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24108460D-H1
- 03/01/24 House: Read second time
- 03/04/24 House: Read third time
- 03/04/24 House: Passed by for the day
- 03/05/24 House: Read third time
- 03/05/24 House: Committee on Health and Human Services amendments rejected
- 03/05/24 House: Committee on Appropriations substitute agreed to 24108460D-H1
- 03/05/24 House: Amendments by Delegate Price agreed to
- 03/05/24 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendments SB34H1
- 03/05/24 House: Passed House with substitute with amendments (88-Y 11-N)\
- 03/05/24 House: VOTE: Passage (88-Y 11-N)
- 03/06/24 Senate: House substitute with amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/06/24 Senate: Title replaced 24108460D-H1
- 03/25/24 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/25/24 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB34ER)
- 03/25/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/26/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/27/24 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024
- 03/27/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 04/08/24 Senate: Governor's recommendation received by Senate
- 04/17/24 Senate: Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
- 04/17/24 House: House concurred in Governor's recommendation (91-Y 8-N)
- 04/17/24 House: VOTE: Adoption (91-Y 8-N)
- 04/17/24 Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
- 04/17/24 Senate: Reenrolled
- 04/17/24 Senate: Reenrolled bill text (SB34ER2)
- 04/17/24 Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
- 04/17/24 House: Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 04/17/24 House: Enacted, Chapter 780 (effective 7/1/24)
- 04/17/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0780)