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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1738: Veterans or military service members; deaths by suicide.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1738 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 4, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Veterans or military service members; deaths by suicide. Primary sponsor: David Reid (Democratic). It lists 13 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (February 17, 2025): Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 3-N 1-A).

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Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Deaths by suicide of veterans or military service members; inquiry by State Registrar of Vital Records; Department of Veterans Services annual report. Requires the State Registrar of Vital Records, when a death certificate is filed and lists suicide as the cause of death, to make an inquiry into whether the decedent was a veteran or military service member and to provide any information concerning the suicide of such veteran or military service member to the Department of Veterans Services. The bill also provides that the Commissioner of the Department of Veterans Services may request, and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner shall deliver to the Commissioner, a copy of an autopsy report of a veteran or military service member whose cause and manner of death is determined to be a suicide. The bill also reestablishes the position of Suicide Prevention Coordinator as the Suicide Prevention Program and requires such Program to, in coordination with the State Police, compile and analyze data relating to such suicides to be included in the annual report submitted by the Department to the Governor and the General Assembly.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 13 · Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
David ReidPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse28
Elizabeth Bennett-ParkerCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate39
Destiny LeVere BollingCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse80
Mike CherryCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse74
Rae CousinsCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse79
Jackie GlassCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse93
J.R. HensonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse19
Karen Keys-GamarraCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse7
Cia PriceCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse85
Atoosa ReaserCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse27
Josh ThomasCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse21
Kathy TranCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse18
Vivian WattsCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse14
Rod WillettCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse58

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 3-N 1-A)
  2. Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
  3. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1738)
  4. Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
  5. Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
  6. Passed House (99-Y 0-N)
  7. Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
  8. Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N)
  9. Printed as engrossed 25103963D-E
  10. Engrossed by House as amended
  11. Appropriations Amendments agreed to
  12. Public Safety Amendments agreed to

Showing 12 most recent of 22 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source