VirginiaVeterans or military service members; deaths by suicide.
What it does
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.
More detail
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.
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- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2025
- Feb 17Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 3-N 1-A)Latest
- Vote recorded Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 3-N 1-A). Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 12Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)Minor
- Vote recorded Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N). Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 12Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1738)
- Feb 5Referred to Committee on General Laws and TechnologyMinor
- Feb 5Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- Feb 4Passed House (99-Y 0-N)Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N). Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded Passed House (99-Y 0-N). Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 4Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- Feb 4Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N)Passed House
- Feb 3Printed as engrossed 25103963D-E
- Feb 3Engrossed by House as amended
- Feb 3Appropriations Amendments agreed toMajor
- Feb 3Public Safety Amendments agreed toMajor
- Feb 3Read second timeMinor
- Jan 31Read first timeMinor
- Jan 30Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1738)
- Jan 29Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N)Minor
- Vote recorded Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N). Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N). Result: pass.Lower
- Jan 29Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
- Jan 25Assigned Approps sub: Transportation & Public SafetyMinor
- Jan 24Reported from Public Safety with amendment(s) and referred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)Minor
- Vote recorded Reported from Public Safety with amendment(s) and rereferred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N). Result: pass.Lower
- Jan 14Referred from General Laws and referred to Public Safety (Voice Vote)Minor
- Jan 4Referred to Committee on General LawsMinor
- Jan 4Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25103963DIntroduced
- Feb 17Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 3-N 1-A)Latest