Virginia House Bill 1112 (Prior Session Legislation)

---

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-16 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Involuntary admission; contents of preadmission screening report; notice of hearing. Provides that the community services board that prepares the preadmission screening report admitted into evidence at a person's involuntary admission hearing, if the report recommends that the person is not in need of involuntary treatment, must include in such report any contrary recommendations, if available, by the person's personal representative, relatives, or treating or examining physician. The bill requires further that the judge or special justice conducting the hearing consider, if available, the recommendations of the person's personal representative and relatives. The bill also requires that notice of the hearing be given to the person's personal representative, or if the person has no personal representative and the individual who petitioned for the person's involuntary admission is not a relative of the person, the nearest known relative of the person. Finally, the bill imposes a duty on health care providers providing services to a person subject to emergency custody, temporary detention, or involuntary admission proceedings to make a reasonable attempt to notify the person's family member or personal representative and clarifies that such representative includes an agent named in an advance directive; currently, such health care provider has discretion as to whether to make such notification.

Involuntary admission; contents of preadmission screening report, notice of hearing.

Del. Robert Bell [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-16	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2016-01-20	House	Assigned Courts sub: Mental Health
2016-01-13	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2016-01-13	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16104099D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	1	337	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	340.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	345	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	345.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
37	2	804.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
37	2	814	(n/a)	See Bill Text
37	2	816	(n/a)	See Bill Text
37	2	817	(n/a)	See Bill Text
37	2	817.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB1112
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB1112+hil