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| Bill | School boards; school-based telehealth and mental health teletherapy services, accessibility. | School boards; student access to telehealth services; policies. Directs each school board to consider, for the purpose of increasing access to health care services for students, developing and implementing policies for permitting any public school student in the school division to schedule and participate in telehealth services, including mental health teletherapy services pursuant to a memorandum of understanding with a nationally recognized school-based telehealth provider developed in accordance with applicable law, on school property during regular school hours with parental consent. The bill requires any such policies developed and implemented by a school board to (i) require each public elementary and secondary school to designate a location in the school for student use for such telehealth appointments and implement measures to ensure the safety and privacy of any student participating in a telehealth appointment, (ii) prohibit any student from being subject to any disciplinary measure or consequence for participating in a telehealth appointment during regular school hours if such student would not be subject to any disciplinary measure or consequence for an absence for the purpose of receiving any health care services in person during regular school hours, and (iii) include such other requirements as the school board deems necessary and appropriate. Finally, the bill requires any school board that develops and implements any policies for permitting students to schedule and participate in telehealth services pursuant to the bill to provide and post in a publicly accessible location on its website at the beginning of each school year guidance relating to the implementation of such policies for administrative and instructional personnel. This bill is identical to SB 1037. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2025 | HB 1945 | Virginia HB 1945 (2025) |
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Virginia HB 1945 (2025) — School boards; school-based telehealth and mental health teletherapy services, accessibility.
School boards; student access to telehealth services; policies. Directs each school board to consider, for the purpose of increasing access to health care services for students, developing and implementing policies for permitting any public school student in the school division to schedule and participate in telehealth services, including mental health teletherapy services pursuant to a memorandum of understanding with a nationally recognized school-based telehealth provider developed in accordance with applicable law, on school property during regular school hours with parental consent. The bill requires any such policies developed and implemented by a school board to (i) require each public elementary and secondary school to designate a location in the school for student use for such telehealth appointments and implement measures to ensure the safety and privacy of any student participating in a telehealth appointment, (ii) prohibit any student from being subject to any disciplinary measure or consequence for participating in a telehealth appointment during regular school hours if such student would not be subject to any disciplinary measure or consequence for an absence for the purpose of receiving any health care services in person during regular school hours, and (iii) include such other requirements as the school board deems necessary and appropriate. Finally, the bill requires any school board that develops and implements any policies for permitting students to schedule and participate in telehealth services pursuant to the bill to provide and post in a publicly accessible location on its website at the beginning of each school year guidance relating to the implementation of such policies for administrative and instructional personnel. This bill is identical to SB 1037.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- Education Amendment (committee substitute) — source
- Education and Health Subcommittee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Education and Health Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Senate substitute agreed to by House (52-Y 43-N) — 52–43 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N) — 5–3 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education with amendment(s) and rereferred to Appropriations (13-Y 8-N) — 13–8 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) and referred to Appropriations (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations (12-Y 9-N) — 12–9 (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House (52-Y 44-N) — 52–44 (pass) · lower
- Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Atoosa R. Reaser — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
- Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
- Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
- Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104348D
filing, introduction - 2025-01-06 Referred to Committee on Education
referral-committee - 2025-01-13 Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2025-01-14 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) and referred to Appropriations (7-Y 0-N)
- 2025-01-15 Reported from Education with amendment(s) and referred to Appropriations (13-Y 8-N)
committee-passage - 2025-01-15 Assigned Approps sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
referral-committee - 2025-01-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
- 2025-01-27 Reported from Appropriations (12-Y 9-N)
committee-passage - 2025-01-29 Read first time
reading-1 - 2025-01-30 Read second time
reading-2 - 2025-01-30 Education Amendment agreed to
amendment-passage - 2025-01-30 Engrossed by House as amended
- 2025-01-30 Printed as engrossed 25104348D-E
- 2025-01-31 Read third time and passed House (52-Y 44-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2025-02-03 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1945)
- 2025-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 2025-02-03 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2025-02-06 Assigned Education sub: Public Education
referral-committee - 2025-02-13 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2025-02-13 Committee substitute printed 25107246D-S1
substitution - 2025-02-17 Rules suspended
- 2025-02-17 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)
- 2025-02-17 Passed by for the day
- 2025-02-18 Read third time
reading-3 - 2025-02-18 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1945)
- 2025-02-18 Reading of substitute waived
- 2025-02-18 Education and Health Substitute agreed to
- 2025-02-18 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
substitution - 2025-02-18 Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N)
passage - 2025-02-19 Senate substitute agreed to by House (52-Y 43-N)
substitution - 2025-03-07 Enrolled
enrolled - 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1945ER)
passage - 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2025-03-10 Signed by President
passage - 2025-03-11 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1945)
- 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025
enrolled, executive-receipt - 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
executive-receipt - 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 555 (Effective 07/01/25)
executive-signature - 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0555)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0dcfa43e-d658-4d71-9363-02518a79faf1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).