Virginia Senate Bill 440 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2008 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2008-02-13 - Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (16-Y 0-N)

Mentally ill defendants; treatment and hospitalization. Establishes a new standard for hospitalizing mentally ill criminal defendants. Hospitalization may occur when the defendant has a mental illness and there exists a substantial likelihood that, as a result of that mental illness, the defendant will, in the near future, cause serious physical harm to himself or others as evidenced by recent behavior causing, attempting, or threatening harm. Under current law the standard is "imminently dangerous to himself or others." The provision applies to pretrial, after conviction but before sentencing, and after sentencing. The bill specifies that the evaluation must be done face-to-face by an employee of the community services board or its designee who is skilled in the assessment and treatment of mental illness and has completed a certification program approved by the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services.

Inmates; emergency psychiatric treatment.

Sen. Donald McEachin [D]

Sen. Yvonne Miller [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2008-02-13		Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (16-Y 0-N)
2008-01-28		Senate: Rereferred to Finance
2008-01-28		Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
2008-01-28		Senate: Committee substitute printed 080853628-S1
2008-01-21		Senate: Assigned Courts sub: Special on Proposed Mental Health Legislation
2008-01-08		Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2008-01-08		Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 081530820

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Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?081+sum+SB440