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type: "Bill"
title: "Culturally responsive & language-appropriate mental health support & services; guidance & policies."
description: "Department of Education; culturally responsive and language-appropriate mental health support and services; guidance and policies. Requires, no later than October 1, 2027, the Department of Education to develop, adopt, and provide to each local school board guidance on the adoption of policies governing the provision of culturally responsive and language-appropriate mental health support and services for students in the local school division and permits any school board to develop and adopt policies in the local school division that are consistent with the guidelines adopted and provided by the Department of Education."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1113"
citation: "Virginia HB 1113 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["May Nivar"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 27
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2026-01-14"
last_action: "2026-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad910cbe-00bc-4c33-bbb8-d26e903edab3"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB1113"
source_hash: "b560b52f984c1206ba71e74a4c9cfa8bb5a81b0c863138159fa53f64761c16ce"
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 1113 (2026) — Culturally responsive & language-appropriate mental health support & services; guidance & policies.
Department of Education; culturally responsive and language-appropriate mental health support and services; guidance and policies. Requires, no later than October 1, 2027, the Department of Education to develop, adopt, and provide to each local school board guidance on the adoption of policies governing the provision of culturally responsive and language-appropriate mental health support and services for students in the local school division and permits any school board to develop and adopt policies in the local school division that are consistent with the guidelines adopted and provided by the Department of Education.
## 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/1087473.PDF)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1194558.PDF)
## Votes
- Reported from Education — **157** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations — **193** (pass) · lower
- Passage R — **2119** (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — **6034** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **70** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **370** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health — **96** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- May Nivar — primary (person)
- Adele Y. McClure — cosponsor (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Amy J. Laufer — cosponsor (person)
- Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
- Charlie Schmidt — cosponsor (person)
- Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
- JJ Singh — cosponsor (person)
- Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
- Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Kannan Srinivasan — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
- Karen R. "Kacey" Carnegie — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Pope Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Laura Jane Cohen — cosponsor (person)
- Leslie Chambers Mehta — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsey Dougherty — cosponsor (person)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret A. Franklin — cosponsor (person)
- Mark C. Downey — cosponsor (person)
- Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
- Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
- Phil M. Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
- Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
- Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
- Virgil Thornton — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-01-14** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102765D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-14** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-30** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1113)
- **2026-02-02** Reported from Education and referred to Appropriations (15-Y 7-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-04** Assigned HAPP sub: Elementary & Secondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-09** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- **2026-02-09** Reported from Appropriations (19-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-11** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-12** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-02-13** Read third time and passed House (60-Y 34-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-16** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2026-02-16** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-19** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-26** Reported from Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-27** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-27** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (37-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-02-27** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- **2026-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-02** Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-09** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-09** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1113ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-09** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1113)
- **2026-03-09** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-09** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-10** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 936 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ad910cbe-00bc-4c33-bbb8-d26e903edab3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).