SB 819 Virginia Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Community-based outpatient stabilization programs for voluntary treatment; referrals.

Summary
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 37.2-808, 37.2-809, 37.2-813, as they are currently effective and as they shall become effective, 37.2-815, 37.2-816 and 37.2-817, as they are currently effective and as they shall become effective, and 37.2-1104 of the Code of Virginia, relating to referrals to community-based outpatient stabilization programs for voluntary treatment.
Sub-Topics: Mental Health
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2024
Committee Review
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Feb 2025
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2025
Signed into Law
Mar 2025
Introduced Dec 31, 2024 Signed Mar 24, 2025
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Enrolled → Chaptered · 3 edits
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This bill converts the 2025 session's enrolled legislation into the official chapter format for the Virginia Code. The substantive legal text remains identical; the changes are purely formatting, layout, and pagination adjustments required to finalize the bill as law.
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Removed session headers and approval dates from the beginning of the text and replaced them with the official chapter heading and approval date (March 24, 2025).

Adjusted line breaks, indentation, and spacing throughout the document to conform to the official chapter format.

Added page numbers and chapter numbering (Chapter 504) to the end of the document.

Floor votes · Senate Jan 31, 2025 · House of Delegates Feb 18, 2025

How they voted

39–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 40
Jan 31, 2025
D Democratic21
21 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican19
18 Yea 1
94% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
35
Key actions
11
Committee
8
Amendments
2
Mar 24, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 504 (Effective 07/01/25)
executive
Feb 23, 2025
Upper · Passed
Signed by President
upper
Feb 20, 2025
Lower · Passed
Signed by Speaker
lower
Feb 20, 2025
Upper · Passed
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB819ER)
upper
Feb 18, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed House (97-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 13, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 11, 2025
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 6, 2025
Committee
Assigned sub: Behavioral Health
lower
Feb 6, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
lower
Feb 3, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 3, 2025
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended
upper
Feb 3, 2025
Upper · Passed
Education and Health Amendment agreed to
upper
Jan 31, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Jan 30, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health with amendments (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 28, 2025
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Health
upper
Jan 17, 2025
Committee
Rereferred from Rehabilitation and Social Services to Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
upper
Dec 31, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Photo of Barbara Favola
Barbara Favola
DDemocratic
VA
40