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type: "Bill"
title: "Mental health for children 5 yrs. of age or younger; DBHDS, et al., to develop screening, etc."
description: "Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Act; report. Directs the Department of Health, in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and the Department of Education, to convene a work group to develop a plan to (i) create a mental health screening and assessment tool for children in early childhood care and (ii) provide mental health consultation resources and training to early childhood education providers, pediatric health providers, and families. The work group shall report its findings and recommendations to the Chairs of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations by November 1, 2025."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1760"
citation: "Virginia HB 1760 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debra D. Gardner"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 41
vote_count: 12
first_action: "2025-01-05"
last_action: "2025-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf1c93e1-333a-4df5-b8aa-446987276c63"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1760"
source_hash: "19b92635aac1eecfb052e86d8cbadeaf5321e09cc7bf2795a39e93e608b82c3b"
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 HB 1760 (2025) — Mental health for children 5 yrs. of age or younger; DBHDS, et al., to develop screening, etc.
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Act; report. Directs the Department of Health, in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and the Department of Education, to convene a work group to develop a plan to (i) create a mental health screening and assessment tool for children in early childhood care and (ii) provide mental health consultation resources and training to early childhood education providers, pediatric health providers, and families. The work group shall report its findings and recommendations to the Chairs of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations by November 1, 2025.
## 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/1013127.PDF)
2. **Appropriations Subcommittee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1033893.PDF)
3. **Appropriations Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1038009.PDF)
4. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1077700.PDF)
5. **Finance and Appropriations Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1060078.HTML)
6. **Senate Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1064406.HTML)
7. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1066875.PDF)
## Votes
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health and Human Services and rereferred to Appropriations (16-Y 6-N) — **166** (pass) · lower
- Reconsideration of Passed Senate with substitute block vote agreed to (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House (72-Y 24-N) — **7224** (pass) · lower
- Senate Amendment agreed to by House (64-Y 31-N) — **6431** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N) — **60** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting and rereferred to Appropriations (6-Y 2-N) — **62** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Debra D. Gardner — primary (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)
- Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
- Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101729D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-05** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Assigned sub: Behavioral Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting and referring to Appropriations (6-Y 2-N)
- **2025-01-26** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1760)
- **2025-01-28** Reported from Health and Human Services and referred to Appropriations (16-Y 6-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-28** Assigned Approps sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2025-01-31** Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-31** Committee substitute printed 25106285D-H1 `substitution`
- **2025-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-03** Appropriations Substitute agreed to
- **2025-02-03** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-02-04** Read third time and passed House (72-Y 24-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1760)
- **2025-02-11** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-17** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-19** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-19** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-20** Reading of amendment waived
- **2025-02-20** Finance and Appropriations Amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-20** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2025-02-20** Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-20** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-20** Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-20** Senate Amendment agreed to by House (64-Y 31-N) `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1760ER) `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 (HB1760)
- **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 549 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0549)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf1c93e1-333a-4df5-b8aa-446987276c63`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).