VirginiaSchool boards; mental health awareness training for full-time school bus drivers.
What it does
School boards; mental health awareness training; full-time school bus drivers. Permits any school board to require each school bus driver employed on a full-time basis in the local school division to complete mental health awareness training at least once. The bill requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to consider condensing and abbreviating the existing mental health first aid training program into a two-hour module that any school board may utilize in order to train full-time school bus drivers.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Mar 5Continued to next session in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)Latest
- Vote recorded Continued to next session in Education and Health. Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 26Assigned Education sub: Public EducationMinor
- Feb 18Referred to Committee on Education and HealthMinor
- Feb 18Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- Feb 17Read third time and passed House (62-Y 34-N 0-A)Passed House
- Vote recorded H VOTE:. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 16Engrossed by House - committee substituteMajor
- Feb 16committee substitute agreed toMajor
- Feb 16Read second timeMinor
- Feb 13Read first timeMinor
- Feb 12Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB495)
- Feb 11Committee substitute printed 26107573D-H1Major
- Vote recorded Reported from Education with substitute. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 11Reported from Education with substitute (14-Y 7-N)Minor
- Feb 11House committee offered
- Feb 3Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and referring to Appropriations (7-Y 3-N)Major
- Vote recorded Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 3House subcommittee offered
- Jan 30Assigned HED sub: K-12 SubcommitteeMinor
- Jan 29Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB495)
- Jan 12Referred to Committee on EducationMinor
- Jan 12Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102869DIntroduced
- Mar 5Continued to next session in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)Latest