Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Month of Awareness. Designates May, in 2024 and in each succeeding year, as Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Month of Awareness in Virginia.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment; pilot program. Directs the Department of Veterans Services to establish a pilot program with two locations to make electroencephalogram (EEG) combined transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment available for certain military members, veterans, first responders, law-enforcement officers, and certain agents of federal agencies, and family members of the aforementioned individuals. The bill requires the Department to establish regulations for administration of the pilot program.
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Month of Awareness. Designates May, in 2024 and in each succeeding year, as Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Month of Awareness in Virginia.
Commending the Northern Virginia TransportationCommission.
Commending the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority.
Community services boards; core of services. Adds to the list of the core services to be provided by community services boards (i) crisis services for individuals with a mental illness or substance use disorder, (ii) outpatient mental health and substance abuse services, (iii) psychiatric rehabilitation services, (iv) peer support and family support services, (v) mental health services for members of the armed forces located 50 miles or more from a military treatment facility and veterans located 40 miles or more from a Veterans Health Administration medical facility, and (vi) care coordination services. The bill removes language that conditions the duty of community services boards to provide case management services on the availability of funding. The bill further requires community services boards to provide any such services (a) to every adult who has a serious mental illness, child who has or is at risk of serious emotional disturbance, and individual who has a substance use disorder and (b) in a timely manner and at a location that is near the individual. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026, for most provisions.
Advisory Council on Breakthrough Therapies forVeteran Suicide Prevention; established; report. Establishesthe Advisory Council on Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention to advise the State Health Commissioner on the regulationsand infrastructure necessary to support clinical access to and providertraining for the use of rapid-acting therapies that have been grantedBreakthrough Therapy designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administrationfor the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, major depressivedisorder, or treatment-resistant depression and whose active ingredientsare currently controlled under Schedule I of the federal ControlledSubstances Act. The bill requires the State Health Commissioner toreport annually by December 1 to the Governor and the General Assemblyregarding its activities and recommendations. The Council sunsetson July 1, 2027.
Commending George Teague, Jr.
Commending the Virginia Department of MotorVehicles.
Commending Marie Ridder.
