---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public education; student mental health and counseling, definitions, licensure requirements."
description: "Public education; student mental health and counseling, definitions, licensure requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 1043"
citation: "Virginia SB 1043 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McPike"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 59
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2023-01-08"
last_action: "2023-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fa883455-2ed3-4f63-935b-16292c69162a"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1043"
source_hash: "c6b1f90bce8393b82821d9228c46ef2606aaa2799254df815a67e0afdc79e1bc"
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 1043 (2023) — Public education; student mental health and counseling, definitions, licensure requirements.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0349** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0349)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23105161D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1043S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103865D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1043)
4. **SB1043ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1043ER)
5. **SB1043ES1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1043ES1)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (94-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Education with amendment(s) (20-Y 2-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- House amendments rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- McPike — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103865D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-08** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-19** Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-26** Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-26** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-26** Incorporates SB1257 (Favola)
- **2023-01-26** Incorporates SB1268 (Favola)
- **2023-01-26** Committee substitute printed 23105161D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-27** Impact statement from DPB (SB1043)
- **2023-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-01-30** Reading of substitute waived
- **2023-01-30** Committee substitute agreed to 23105161D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-30** Reading of amendment waived
- **2023-01-30** Amendment by Senator McPike agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2023-01-30** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB1043ES1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-30** Printed as engrossed 23105161D-ES1
- **2023-01-31** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-10** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-10** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-10** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB1043ES1)
- **2023-02-10** Assigned Education sub: K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-02-14** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N)
- **2023-02-14** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-15** Reported from Education with amendment(s) (20-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-15** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-17** Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-21** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-22** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-22** Committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-22** Amendment by Delegate Rasoul agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-22** Amendment by Delegate Davis agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-22** Passed House with amendments (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-22** VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-23** House amendments rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N) `amendment-failure`
- **2023-02-23** House insisted on amendments
- **2023-02-23** House requested conference committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-23** Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-23** Conferees appointed by Senate
- **2023-02-23** Senators: McPike, Locke, Pillion
- **2023-02-23** Conferees appointed by House
- **2023-02-23** Delegates: Davis, Durant, VanValkenburg
- **2023-02-24** Amended by conference committee
- **2023-02-24** Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-24** Conference report agreed to by House (94-Y 0-N) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-24** VOTE: Adoption (94-Y 0-N)
- **2023-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-03-07** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1043ER) `passage`
- **2023-03-07** Impact statement from DPB (SB1043ER)
- **2023-03-08** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-03-13** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 349 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-23** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0349)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fa883455-2ed3-4f63-935b-16292c69162a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).