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Bill	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.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 619	Virginia SB 619 (2020)	bill		enacted	R. Creigh Deeds	5	43	12	2020-01-07	2020-03-25	openstates	ocd-bill/f21e0b42-eca4-4f16-8846-a712efcb08cb	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB619	baf0263d099aea4197b5159ef0344c2c338469e39a2add495833b5aa9fbd25c5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB619ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB619S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (SB619) (committee substitute) — source
5. Impact statement from DPB (SB619H1) (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/f21e0b42-eca4-4f16-8846-a712efcb08cb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).