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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?951+ful+CHAP0693\">693<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 4 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1996, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?961+ful+CHAP0861\">861<\/a>; in 1997, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?971+ful+CHAP0587\">587<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?971+ful+CHAP0743\">743<\/a>; in 1998, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?981+ful+CHAP0680\">680<\/a>; in 2005, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?051+ful+CHAP0716\">716<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":62018,"section_number":"37.2-505","catch_line":"Coordination of services for preadmission screening and discharge planning","order_by":null,"url":"\/37.2-505\/"}],"permalink":{"id":210113,"object_type":"law","relational_id":72901,"identifier":"37.2-606","token":"37.2\/II\/6\/37.2-606","url":"\/37.2-606\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/37.2-606\/","token":"37.2\/II\/6\/37.2-606","dublin_core":{"Title":"Coordination of services for preadmission screening and discharge planning","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 37.2-606","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>A <span class=\"dictionary\">behavioral health authority<\/span> shall coordinate services for preadmission screening and discharge planning and provide preadmission screening services and discharge planning in the same manner as <span class=\"dictionary\">community services boards<\/span>, as set forth in \u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"Coordination of services for preadmission screening and discharge planning\" href=\"\/37.2-505\/\">37.2-505<\/a>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCOORDINATION OF SERVICES FOR PREADMISSION SCREENING AND DISCHARGE PLANNING (\u00a7\n37.2-606)\n\nA behavioral health authority shall coordinate services for preadmission\nscreening and discharge planning and provide preadmission screening services and\ndischarge planning in the same manner as community services boards, as set forth\nin \u00a7 37.2-505.\n\nHISTORY: 1995, c. 693, \u00a7 15.1-1682; 1996, c. 861; 1997, cc. 587, 743, \u00a7\n37.1-248; 1998, c. 680; 2005, c. 716.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}