Virginia House Bill 559 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 21-0)
Status: Passed on April 2 2008 - 100% progression
Action: 2008-04-14 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0779)

ECO, TDO, involuntary commitment; criteria. Changes the criteria for emergency custody orders, temporary detention orders, involuntary commitment, and outpatient treatment, including how that criteria is applied to prisoners and juveniles, so that a person may be taken into custody, temporarily detained, involuntarily committed, or ordered to outpatient treatment if the person has a mental illness and there exists a substantial likelihood that, as a result of mental illness, the person will, in the near future (i) cause serious physical harm to himself or others as evidenced by recent behavior causing, attempting, or threatening harm and other relevant information, if any, or (ii) suffer serious harm due to his lack of capacity to protect himself from harm or to provide for his basic human needs. This bill incorporates

Emergency custody orders, temporary detention orders, and involuntary commitment; criteria.

Del. David Albo [R]	Del. Robert Bell [R]	Del. Anne Crockett-Stark [R]	Del. Morgan Griffith [R]
Del. William Howell [R]	Del. William Janis [R]	Del. Terry Kilgore [R]	Del. Steven Landes [R]
Del. Scott Lingamfelter [R]	Del. Daniel Marshall [R]	Del. Donald Merricks [R]	Del. Jackson Miller [R]
Del. Samuel Nixon [R]	Del. David Nutter [R]	Del. John O'Bannon [R]	Del. Brenda Pogge [R]
Del. Charles Poindexter [R]	Del. Harry Purkey [R]	Del. Thomas Rust [R]	Del. Christopher Saxman [R]
Del. Beverly Sherwood [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2008-04-14		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0779)
2008-04-02		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 779 (effective 7/1/08)
2008-03-09		Senate: Signed by President
2008-03-07		House: Signed by Speaker
2008-03-07		House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB559ER)
2008-03-07		House: Enrolled
2008-03-05		House: VOTE: --- ADOPTION (99-Y 0-N)
2008-03-05		House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 089660432-S2 (99-Y 0-N)
2008-03-05		House: Placed on Calendar
2008-03-04		Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N)
2008-03-04		Senate: Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute HB559S2
2008-03-04		Senate: Substitute by Senator Cuccinelli agreed to 089660432-S2
2008-03-04		Senate: Reading of substitute waived
2008-03-04		Senate: Passed by temporarily
2008-03-04		Senate: Floor substitute printed 089660432-S2 (Cuccinelli)
2008-03-04		Senate: Committee substitute rejected 089602248-S1
2008-03-04		Senate: Reading of substitute waived
2008-03-04		Senate: Read third time
2008-03-03		Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2008-02-29		Senate: Committee substitute printed 089602248-S1
2008-02-28		Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
2008-02-14		Senate: Assigned Courts sub: Special on Proposed Mental Health Legislation
2008-02-13		Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2008-02-13		Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
2008-02-12		House: Communicated to Senate
2008-02-12		House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
2008-02-12		House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
2008-02-11		House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB559H1
2008-02-11		House: Committee substitute agreed to 081465432-H1
2008-02-11		House: Read second time
2008-02-09		House: Read first time
2008-02-08		House: Reported from Appropriations (24-Y 0-N)
2008-01-29		House: Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources (Hamilton)
2008-01-28		House: Committee substitute printed 081465432-H1
2008-01-25		House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2008-01-25		House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
2008-01-10		House: Assigned Courts sub: Mental Health
2008-01-07		House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2008-01-07		House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 081455432

HB1059 (Similar To) 2010-02-16 - House: Left in Appropriations
HB1237 (Similar To) 2010-02-16 - House: Left in Commerce and Labor

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?081+sum+HB559