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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Mental health awareness training; certain school board employees required to complete."
+description: "School boards; mental health awareness training. Requires each school board to (i) adopt and implement policies that require each teacher and other relevant personnel, as determined by the school board, employed on a full-time basis, to complete a mental health awareness training or similar program at least once and (ii) provide such training, which may be provided pursuant to a contract with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, a community services board, a behavioral health authority, a nonprofit organization, or other certified trainer or via an online module. This bill is identical to HB 74."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 619"
+citation: "Virginia SB 619 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["R. Creigh Deeds"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 43
+vote_count: 12
+first_action: "2020-01-07"
+last_action: "2020-03-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f21e0b42-eca4-4f16-8846-a712efcb08cb"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB619"
+source_hash: "baf0263d099aea4197b5159ef0344c2c338469e39a2add495833b5aa9fbd25c5"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia SB 619 (2020) — Mental health awareness training; certain school board employees required to complete.
+
+School boards; mental health awareness training. Requires each school board to (i) adopt and implement policies that require each teacher and other relevant personnel, as determined by the school board, employed on a full-time basis, to complete a mental health awareness training or similar program at least once and (ii) provide such training, which may be provided pursuant to a contract with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, a community services board, a behavioral health authority, a nonprofit organization, or other certified trainer or via an online module. This bill is identical to HB 74.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0472)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0472)
+2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB619ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB619ER)
+3. **Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB619S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB619S1)
+4. **Impact statement from DPB (SB619)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB619)
+5. **Impact statement from DPB (SB619H1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB619H1)
+
+## Votes
+
+- House substitute agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Education with substitute (18-Y 4-N) — **18–4** (pass) · lower
+- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (80-Y 19-N) — **79–19** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **16–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- R. Creigh Deeds — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104685D `introduction`
+- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-27** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-31** Impact statement from DPB (SB619)
+- **2020-02-06** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-06** Committee substitute printed 20107763D-S1 `substitution`
+- **2020-02-06** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-06** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-11** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-11** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2020-02-11** Committee substitute agreed to 20107763D-S1
+- **2020-02-11** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB619S1
+- **2020-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-11** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2020-02-11** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-11** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2020-02-12** Impact statement from DPB (SB619S1)
+- **2020-02-14** Placed on Calendar
+- **2020-02-14** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-14** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-17** Reported from Education with substitute (18-Y 4-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-17** Committee substitute printed 20108280D-H1 `substitution`
+- **2020-02-17** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-17** Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-19** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-20** Impact statement from DPB (SB619H1)
+- **2020-02-21** Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-25** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-26** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-26** Committee substitute agreed to 20108280D-H1
+- **2020-02-26** Engrossed by House as amended SB619H1
+- **2020-02-26** Passed House with substitute (80-Y 19-N) `passage`
+- **2020-02-26** VOTE: Passage (80-Y 19-N)
+- **2020-02-28** House substitute agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-28** Title replaced 20108280D-H1
+- **2020-03-05** Enrolled
+- **2020-03-05** Impact statement from DPB (SB619ER)
+- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
+- **2020-03-07** Signed by President
+- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
+- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
+- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor-Chapter 472 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f21e0b42-eca4-4f16-8846-a712efcb08cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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