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type: "Bill"
title: "Model memorandum of understanding; counseling from school counselors by way of telehealth."
description: "Department of Education; model memorandum of understanding; counseling from school counselors by way of telehealth. Provides that the model memorandum of understanding developed by the Department of Education for partnerships with community mental health services providers or school-based telehealth providers shall include procedures allowing for students to receive counseling from school counselors by way of telehealth. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee to Study Pandemic Response and Preparedness in the Commonwealth and is identical to HB 2543."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1370"
citation: "Virginia SB 1370 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kannan Srinivasan"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 39
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2addab54-b374-4fa4-84e8-7b7c3441c146"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1370"
source_hash: "b42c5ee156ec1d797c69ac1569bdb740d879053738df1dd7830e9be050df7249"
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 SB 1370 (2025) — Model memorandum of understanding; counseling from school counselors by way of telehealth.
Department of Education; model memorandum of understanding; counseling from school counselors by way of telehealth. Provides that the model memorandum of understanding developed by the Department of Education for partnerships with community mental health services providers or school-based telehealth providers shall include procedures allowing for students to receive counseling from school counselors by way of telehealth. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee to Study Pandemic Response and Preparedness in the Commonwealth and is identical to HB 2543.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1019773.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1079039.PDF)
3. **Governor's Recommendation** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1073964.HTML)
4. **Reenrolled** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1075442.PDF)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1055761.PDF)
## Votes
- House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N) — **960** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 2-N) — **372** (pass) · upper
- Passed House (96-Y 0-N) — **960** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N) — **370** (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Passed House (95-Y 0-N) — **950** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Kannan Srinivasan — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25103956D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-13** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-20** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-24** Rules suspended
- **2025-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-24** Passed by for the day
- **2025-01-24** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1370)
- **2025-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-01-27** Engrossed by Senate
- **2025-01-28** Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 2-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-28** Reconsideration of (38-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-28** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-05** Placed on Calendar
- **2025-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-14** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-17** Passed House (95-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-17** Reconsideration of House passage agreed to by House
- **2025-02-17** Passed House (96-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-19** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1370ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1370)
- **2025-02-19** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-22** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 `enrolled`
- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24** Governor's recommendation received by Senate `executive-veto-line-item`
- **2025-04-02** Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-04-02** House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N)
- **2025-04-02** Governor's recommendation adopted `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-02** Reenrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-04-02** Reenrolled bill text (SB1370ER2) `enrolled`
- **2025-04-02** Signed by President as reenrolled `enrolled, passage`
- **2025-04-02** Signed by Speaker as reenrolled `enrolled, passage`
- **2025-04-02** Enacted, Chapter 628 (Effective 07/01/2025) `became-law`
- **2025-04-02** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0628)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2addab54-b374-4fa4-84e8-7b7c3441c146`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).