• Date Due: November 01, 2025
  • Author: Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services
  • Enabling Authority: Chapter 290 Enactment Clause 1. (Regular Session, 2024)
  • Description:
    Report on the findings and recommendations on the implementation of a pilot program at one state hospital to allow the director of the state hospital the option to discharge, after the preparation of a discharge plan and over the objection of the community services board, any individual receiving services in a state hospital (i) who is not held upon an order of a court for a criminal proceeding; (ii) who in the director's judgment is recovered, does not have a mental illness, or is impaired or not recovered but whose discharge will not be detrimental to the public welfare or injurious to the individual; (iii) who is not a proper case for treatment within the purview of Chapter 8 (§ 37.2-800 et seq.) of Title 37.2 of the Code of Virginia; and (iv) whose treatment team determines that the individual is ready for discharge but who has not been discharged within 15 days of such determination by the individual's treatment team.