republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-919.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "School boards; model memorandum of understanding, partnerships with certain mental health services."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 919"
citation: "Virginia HB 919 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kannan Srinivasan"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-04-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/61693c77-0a9a-4c39-b90f-4fceaddb75bc"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB919"
source_hash: "83c36e8b9bb07f6daa67161f64909b1349ec19fc307c6bbeaa5379a4083e1680"
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 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](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0534)
2. **HB919ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB919ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103336D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB919)
4. **Printed as engrossed 24103336D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB919E)

## Votes

- VOTE: Passage (88-Y 11-N) — **87–11** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 1-N) — **14–1** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education with amendment(s) (17-Y 5-N) — **17–5** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) — **39–1** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N) — **7–1** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/61693c77-0a9a-4c39-b90f-4fceaddb75bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).