Virginia Senate Bill 399 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Passed on March 30 2018 - 100% progression
Action: 2018-03-30 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0600)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Local or regional overdose fatality review teams. Authorizes any county or city, or any combination of counties, cities, or counties and cities, to establish a local or regional overdose fatality review team for the purpose of (i) conducting contemporaneous reviews of local overdose deaths, (ii) promoting cooperation and coordination among agencies involved in investigations of overdose deaths or in providing services to surviving family members, (iii) developing an understanding of the causes and incidence of overdose deaths in the locality, (iv) developing plans for and recommending changes within the agencies represented on the local team to prevent overdose deaths, and (v) advising the Department of Health and other relevant state agencies on changes to law, policy, or practice to prevent overdose deaths. The bill authorizes a local or regional team to review the death of any person who resides in the Commonwealth and whose death was or is suspected to be due to overdose. A violation of the confidentiality of the review process is punishable as a Class 3 misdemeanor.

Drug overdose fatality review teams, local or regional; localities to establish.

Sen. Lynwood Lewis [D]

Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]

Sen. Janet Howell [D]

2018-02-23 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 98 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-20 - House - House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-30 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-26 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) (Y: 35 N: 0 NV: 5 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-25 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (13-Y 2-N) (Y: 13 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-03-30		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0600)
2018-03-30		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 600 (effective 7/1/18)
2018-03-05		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, April 9, 2018
2018-03-05	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 5, 2018
2018-03-02	Senate	Signed by President
2018-02-27	House	Signed by Speaker
2018-02-27	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB399ER)
2018-02-27	Senate	Enrolled
2018-02-23	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
2018-02-23	House	Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
2018-02-23	House	Read third time
2018-02-22	House	Read second time
2018-02-20	House	Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N)
2018-02-05	House	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
2018-02-05	House	Read first time
2018-02-05	House	Placed on Calendar
2018-01-30	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2018-01-29	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB399S1
2018-01-29	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 18106095D-S1
2018-01-29	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2018-01-29	Senate	Read second time
2018-01-26	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
2018-01-25	Senate	Reported from Education and Health with substitute (13-Y 2-N)
2018-01-25	Senate	Committee substitute printed 18106095D-S1
2018-01-22	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Health
2018-01-09	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2018-01-09	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101721D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	3705.5	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	3711	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	283.7	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB399
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB399+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB399S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB399ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0600+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S04V0085+SB0399
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0162SB0399+SB0399
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0215SB0399+SB0399
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H12V0193+SB0399
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+HV0998+SB0399