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| Bill | Mental Health First Aid Program; DOE, et al., to develop, participation by school staff & students. | Department of Education; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; mental health first aid training program; development of plan to incentivize and facilitate participation. Directs the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, to develop and implement a plan to incentivize and facilitate participation in the Commonwealth Mental Health First Aid Program, established pursuant to applicable law, by public school staff and students. As introduced, the bill is a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee to Study Pandemic Response and Preparedness in the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to SB 1377. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2025 | HB 2637 | Virginia HB 2637 (2025) |
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Virginia HB 2637 (2025) — Mental Health First Aid Program; DOE, et al., to develop, participation by school staff & students.
Department of Education; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; mental health first aid training program; development of plan to incentivize and facilitate participation. Directs the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, to develop and implement a plan to incentivize and facilitate participation in the Commonwealth Mental Health First Aid Program, established pursuant to applicable law, by public school staff and students. As introduced, the bill is a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee to Study Pandemic Response and Preparedness in the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to SB 1377.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- Education and Health Subcommittee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Education and Health Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
- Senate substitute agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Destiny LeVere Bolling — primary (person)
- Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
- Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-01-13 Presented and ordered printed 25104935D
introduction - 2025-01-13 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
referral-committee - 2025-01-21 Assigned sub: Behavioral Health
referral-committee - 2025-01-23 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2637)
- 2025-01-28 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 2025-01-30 Reported from Health and Human Services (21-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 - 2025-02-10 Assigned Education sub: Public Education
referral-committee - 2025-02-13 Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2025-02-13 Committee substitute printed 25107250D-S1
substitution - 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 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 (97-Y 0-N)
substitution - 2025-02-19 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2637)
- 2025-03-07 Enrolled
enrolled - 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2637ER)
passage - 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2637)
- 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 - 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 296 (Effective 07/01/25)
executive-signature - 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0296)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/92fe9442-04b4-42b7-954d-f6a7f2561b3b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).