Bill Text: VA SB627 | 2014 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Training center residents; DBHDS to ensure resources available prior to transfer to another center.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-3)

Status: (Passed) 2014-04-04 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0639) [SB627 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2014-SB627-Comm_Sub.html

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SENATE BILL NO. 627 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the Senate Committee on Finance on February 5, 2014) (Patron Prior to Substitute--Senator Newman) A BILL to ensure adequate resources are available and disclosed to training center residents prior to their transfer to another training center or community-based care.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. That the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services shall, before transferring any training center resident to another training center or to community-based care, provide written certification to such training center resident or his legally authorized representative that (i) the receiving training center or community-based option provides a quality of care that is comparable to that provided in the resident's current training center and (ii) all permissible placement options available under the Commonwealth's August 23, 2012, settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, including the option to remain in a training center, have been disclosed to the training center resident or his legally authorized representative. A training center resident or his legally authorized representative may waive the certification requirement imposed in clause (i).