Minor elementary or secondary school students admitted to inpatient treatment; discl. of discharge.

Added a mandatory prohibition preventing facilities from withholding a minor's discharge solely to facilitate disclosures about educational services or safety threats to schools.

Removed the requirement for facilities to provide parents with notice of their right to exclude portions of the discharge plan before sharing information with schools.

Narrowed the main discharge plan section to explicitly apply to minors in state hospitals or training centers, while moving detention/shelter care provisions to a separate clause.

Changed the language regarding threat disclosures to specify that the threat must be based on communications from the minor to a mental health provider at the facility.

Updated the numbering and formatting of the list of services required in the discharge plan.

The document structure was altered to include House-specific metadata, such as bill identifiers and page numbers, while the actual legal content and policy provisions were not modified.

Removed the amendment to the health records privacy statute (32.1-127.1:03), eliminating any changes to how medical records are handled.

Removed the amendment to the community services coordination statute (37.2-505), eliminating changes to how community boards plan for patient discharge.

Changed school notification for educational needs from mandatory to optional, requiring parents to explicitly agree ('opt in') before the facility shares information with the school.

Narrowed the threat disclosure requirement to only apply when a minor poses a 'specific and immediate threat' to an identified person, rather than a general threat of violence or harm.

Removed the requirement for facilities to provide parents with a notice of their right to decline disclosure before contacting schools.