---
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).