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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 SB 1377."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2637"
citation: "Virginia HB 2637 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Destiny LeVere Bolling"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 36
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92fe9442-04b4-42b7-954d-f6a7f2561b3b"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2637"
source_hash: "67a4ebf863de6a3f9c0145ee8ecab1e0f119b8d7ca41e4f9b59b1fc2732a48f6"
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 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.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1019707.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1072424.PDF)
3. **Education and Health Subcommittee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1051717.PDF)
4. **Education and Health Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1052290.PDF)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1064833.PDF)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Senate substitute agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/92fe9442-04b4-42b7-954d-f6a7f2561b3b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).