Virginia Senate Bill 820 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-02-22 - House: Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Mental health courts. Provides that any district court or circuit court may establish a mental health court, which is a separate court docket within the existing calendar of a district or circuit court offering judicial monitoring of the treatment and supervision of certain individuals with mental illness who are under the jurisdiction of the criminal court. The court is required to (i) identify eligible individuals; (ii) obtain services from a willing local community services board or behavioral health authority serving the territorial jurisdiction of the court and which can provide, or contract for, appropriate treatment and services for the offender or, from a program offered to any eligible veteran by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; (iii) maintain court-established treatment and compliance terms of participation; and (iv) monitor adherence to court requirements.

Mental health courts; any district court or circuit court may establish.

Sen. John Edwards [D]

2011-02-08 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 3-N) (Y: 37 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (11-Y 2-N) (Y: 11 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-22		House: Left in Courts of Justice
2011-02-18		House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely by voice vote
2011-02-10		House: Assigned Courts sub: #1 Criminal
2011-02-09		House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2011-02-09		House: Read first time
2011-02-09		House: Placed on Calendar
2011-02-08		Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 3-N)
2011-02-07		Senate: Read second time and engrossed
2011-02-04		Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2011-02-02		Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (11-Y 2-N)
2011-01-11		Senate: Assigned Courts sub: Civil
2011-01-06		Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2011-01-06		Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/11 11101281D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	180.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+sum+SB820
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+SB820+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+vot+S03V0140+SB0820
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+vot+SV0241SB0820+SB0820
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+vot+SV0303SB0820+SB0820