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Bill School boards; model memorandum of understanding, partnerships with certain mental health services. School boards; model memorandum of understanding; partnerships with certain mental health services providers; provision and expansion of virtual mental health services. Directs the Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and the Department of Medical Assistance Services, to develop, adopt, and distribute to each school board a model memorandum of understanding between a school board and a nationally recognized school-based telehealth provider that sets forth the parameters for the provision of mental health teletherapy by such provider to public school students enrolled in the local school division. Current law only requires the development, adoption, and distribution of a model memorandum of understanding between a school board and a public or private community mental health services provider. The bill also requires each school board to adopt policies and procedures to increase the accessibility of school-based mental health services for students enrolled in each school division who may not have access to mental health services otherwise by providing or expanding virtual mental health resources and establishing or expanding a partnership with (i) a public or private community mental health services provider that offers school-based teletherapy to students or (ii) a nationally recognized school-based telehealth provider that provides mental health teletherapy to students. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2024 HB 919 Virginia HB 919 (2024)
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Virginia HB 919 (2024) — School boards; model memorandum of understanding, partnerships with certain mental health services.

School boards; model memorandum of understanding; partnerships with certain mental health services providers; provision and expansion of virtual mental health services. Directs the Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and the Department of Medical Assistance Services, to develop, adopt, and distribute to each school board a model memorandum of understanding between a school board and a nationally recognized school-based telehealth provider that sets forth the parameters for the provision of mental health teletherapy by such provider to public school students enrolled in the local school division. Current law only requires the development, adoption, and distribution of a model memorandum of understanding between a school board and a public or private community mental health services provider. The bill also requires each school board to adopt policies and procedures to increase the accessibility of school-based mental health services for students enrolled in each school division who may not have access to mental health services otherwise by providing or expanding virtual mental health resources and establishing or expanding a partnership with (i) a public or private community mental health services provider that offers school-based teletherapy to students or (ii) a nationally recognized school-based telehealth provider that provides mental health teletherapy to students.

Version chain

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

  1. CHAP0534 (committee substitute) — source
  2. HB919ER (committee substitute) — source
  3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103336D (committee substitute) — source
  4. Printed as engrossed 24103336D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • VOTE: Passage (88-Y 11-N) — 8711 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 380 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 1-N) — 141 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Education with amendment(s) (17-Y 5-N) — 175 (pass) · lower
  • Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) — 391 (pass) · upper
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N) — 71 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Kannan Srinivasan — primary (person)
  • Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103336D filing, introduction
  • 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
  • 2024-01-26 Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee referral-committee
  • 2024-01-30 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N)
  • 2024-01-31 Reported from Education with amendment(s) (17-Y 5-N) committee-passage
  • 2024-02-02 Read first time reading-1
  • 2024-02-05 Read second time reading-2
  • 2024-02-05 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
  • 2024-02-05 Engrossed by House as amended HB919E
  • 2024-02-05 Printed as engrossed 24103336D-E
  • 2024-02-06 Read third time and passed House (88-Y 11-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2024-02-06 VOTE: Passage (88-Y 11-N) passage
  • 2024-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2024-02-07 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
  • 2024-02-12 Impact statement from DPB (HB919E)
  • 2024-02-14 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education referral-committee
  • 2024-02-22 Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 1-N) committee-passage
  • 2024-02-23 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
  • 2024-02-26 Read third time reading-3
  • 2024-02-26 Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) passage
  • 2024-02-29 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2024-02-29 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB919ER) passage
  • 2024-02-29 Impact statement from DPB (HB919ER)
  • 2024-02-29 Signed by Speaker passage
  • 2024-03-03 Signed by President passage
  • 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
  • 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
  • 2024-04-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 534 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
  • 2024-04-05 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/61693c77-0a9a-4c39-b90f-4fceaddb75bc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).