republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-74.md

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Bill	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.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 74	Virginia HB 74 (2020)	bill		enacted	Kaye Kory	4	34	8	2019-12-05	2020-03-25	openstates	ocd-bill/3c78dfff-76c4-489d-8347-030a7a3e00c9	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB74	271bb159a799925bbea365de748496d3ded8ce06d6ec6dce0348b743e808a450	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB74ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB74H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (HB74) (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/3c78dfff-76c4-489d-8347-030a7a3e00c9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).