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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 575: Discharge plans; copies to public elementary and secondary schools.

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

SB 575 is a bill introduced in the Virginia Senate on January 10, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Discharge plans; copies to public elementary and secondary schools. Primary sponsor: Mark Obenshain (Republican). Most recent recorded action (November 18, 2024): Left in Education.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

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

Discharge plans; copies to public elementary and secondary schools. Provides that, prior to the discharge of any minor admitted to inpatient treatment (i) who is a student at a public elementary or secondary school and (ii) for whom the facility deems (a) such discharge poses a threat of violence or physical harm to self and others or (b) additional educational services are needed, such facility is required to provide to the school's mental health professional or school counselor the portions of such discharge plan relevant to the threat of violence or harm or the necessary additional educational services. The bill requires such facility to, prior to providing any such portions of any minor's discharge plan, provide to the parent of such minor student reasonable notice of the types of information that would be included in any portions of the discharge plan being provided and of the parent's right to, upon written request, refuse the provision of any such information.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Mark ObenshainPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate2

“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. Left in Education
  2. Continued to 2025 in Education (Voice Vote)
  3. House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
  4. Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025 (Voice Vote)
  5. Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee
  6. Referred to Committee on Education
  7. Read first time
  8. Placed on Calendar
  9. Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
  10. Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
  11. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB575S1
  12. Committee substitute agreed to 24107376D-S1

Showing 12 most recent of 22 actions. Full history

Sources

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