republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2446.md

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Bill	Postpartum Depression Education Act; Department of Health to establish a public awareness campaign.	Postpartum Depression Education Act; report. Directs the Department of Health to establish a public awareness campaign, develop and distribute educational materials, and create an online resource hub focused on perinatal and postpartum depression. The bill requires the Department to submit an annual report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the implementation of the bill, with the first annual report due by November 1, 2026.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2446	Virginia HB 2446 (2025)	bill		enacted	Candi Mundon King	7	43	12	2025-01-08	2025-05-02	openstates	ocd-bill/f76729cc-5f25-42c3-bef8-0884f69d8b1d	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2446	4a156c27b4e9c3119032ad926c5879a249ae7ab6c5fe3bf325733815a463273f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2446 (2025) — Postpartum Depression Education Act; Department of Health to establish a public awareness campaign.

Postpartum Depression Education Act; report. Directs the Department of Health to establish a public awareness campaign, develop and distribute educational materials, and create an online resource hub focused on perinatal and postpartum depression. The bill requires the Department to submit an annual report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the implementation of the bill, with the first annual report due by November 1, 2026.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Education and Health Amendment (committee substitute) — source
4. Governor Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Amendment (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate Amendment agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Health and Human Services and rereferred to Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting and rereferred to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health with amendment and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed in enrolled form (93-Y 0-N) — 93–0 (pass) · lower
• House rejected Governor's recommendation (18-Y 78-N) — 18–78 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Candi Mundon King — primary (person)
• Adele Y. McClure — cosponsor (person)
• Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
• Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
• Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
• Holly M. Seibold — cosponsor (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
• Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• Phil M. Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
• Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103463D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Assigned sub: Health referral-committee
• 2025-01-23 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2446)
• 2025-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting and referring to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-30 Reported from Health and Human Services and referred to Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-30 Assigned Approps sub: Health & Human Resources referral-committee
• 2025-01-31 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2025-02-04 Passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2025-02-11 Assigned Education sub: Health referral-committee
• 2025-02-13 Reported from Education and Health with amendment and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-14 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-17 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-17 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-18 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-18 Reading of amendment waived
• 2025-02-18 Education and Health Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-02-18 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2025-02-18 Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-19 Senate Amendment agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N) amendment-passage
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2446ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2446)
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
• 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 Governor's recommendation received by House executive-veto-line-item
• 2025-03-24 Governor's substitute printed (HB2446H1)
• 2025-04-02 House rejected Governor's recommendation (18-Y 78-N) veto-override-passage
• 2025-04-02 Passed in enrolled form (93-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable, enrolled
• 2025-04-02 Passed by for the day
• 2025-04-02 Communicated to Governor
• 2025-04-02 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 2, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-05-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 700 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-05-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0700)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f76729cc-5f25-42c3-bef8-0884f69d8b1d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).