2025 SESSION

HOUSE SUBSTITUTE

25105866D

HOUSE BILL NO. 1931

AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE

(Proposed by the House Committee on Health and Human Services

on January 28, 2025)

(Patron Prior to Substitute—Delegate LeVere Bolling)

A BILL to direct community services boards to develop plans and identify resources needed to establish programs in each region modeled after the Regional Older Adults Facility Team program conducted by the Northern Virginia Regional Projects Office.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. Community services boards (CSBs) located in Region 1, Region 3, Region 4, and Region 5 of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (the Department) shall, in collaboration with the Department, establish a Regional Older Adults Facility Team (RAFT) in each region modeled after the RAFT program conducted by the Regional Projects Office of Region 2 of the Department. The CSB regions shall submit their plans, including resource needs, to the Department by September 1, 2025. The Department shall provide a consolidated report to the Chairs of the House Appropriations Committee, the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee, and the Behavioral Health Commission by November 1, 2025.