---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public schools; mental health awareness training required."
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 incorporates HB 716 and HB 1554 and is identical to SB 619."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 74"
citation: "Virginia HB 74 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kaye Kory"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-12-05"
last_action: "2020-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c78dfff-76c4-489d-8347-030a7a3e00c9"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB74"
source_hash: "271bb159a799925bbea365de748496d3ded8ce06d6ec6dce0348b743e808a450"
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 HB 74 (2020) — Public schools; mental health awareness training required.

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 incorporates HB 716 and HB 1554 and is identical to SB 619.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0471)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0471)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB74ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB74ER)
3. **Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB74H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB74H1)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (HB74)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB74)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education (20-Y 2-N) — **20–2** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (88-Y 12-N) — **87–12** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (10-Y 1-N) — **10–1** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) — **7–1** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) — **39–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kaye Kory — primary (person)
- David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-12-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100424D `introduction`
- **2019-12-05** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-13** Impact statement from DPB (HB74)
- **2020-01-13** Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-20** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N)
- **2020-01-27** Impact statement from DHCD/CLG (HB74)
- **2020-02-03** Reported from Education (20-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-03** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-03** Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-05** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-02-07** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-02-07** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-07** Committee substitute printed 20107769D-H1 `substitution`
- **2020-02-07** Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-10** Committee substitute agreed to 20107769D-H1
- **2020-02-10** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB74H1
- **2020-02-11** Read third time and passed House (88-Y 12-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-11** VOTE: Passage (88-Y 12-N)
- **2020-02-12** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-12** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19** Impact statement from DPB (HB74H1)
- **2020-02-27** Reported from Education and Health (10-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-28** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-02** Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) `passage`
- **2020-03-05** Enrolled
- **2020-03-06** Impact statement from DPB (HB74ER)
- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-06** 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 471 (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/3c78dfff-76c4-489d-8347-030a7a3e00c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).