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type: "Bill"
title: "Mental Health First Aid Program; DOE, et al., to develop, participation by school staff & students."
description: "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 HB 2637."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1377"
citation: "Virginia SB 1377 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ghazala F. Hashmi"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 37
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6727b290-fa19-48b7-a571-33c1cbd178ad"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1377"
source_hash: "88c68b4e02cc7ed9f808e1eb5b5b2f37303500a374058ca3ad8d5334df3f0897"
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 1377 (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 HB 2637.
## 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/1019588.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1072450.PDF)
3. **Education and Health Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1035911.PDF)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1062311.PDF)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting and rereferred to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health and Human Services and rereferred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ghazala F. Hashmi — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25103957D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-13** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1377)
- **2025-01-30** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-30** Committee substitute printed 25106500D-S1 `substitution`
- **2025-01-31** Rules suspended
- **2025-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-31** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-03** Reading of substitute waived
- **2025-02-03** Education and Health Substitute agreed to
- **2025-02-03** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-02-03** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-03** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-06** Placed on Calendar
- **2025-02-06** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-06** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Assigned sub: Behavioral Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Subcommittee recommends reporting and referring to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-13** Reported from Health and Human Services and referred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13** Assigned Approps sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-14** Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-18** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-19** Passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1377)
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1377ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1377)
- **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`
- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 302 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0302)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6727b290-fa19-48b7-a571-33c1cbd178ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).