HB 2341 Virginia House of Delegates · 2025 Regular Session

Culturally responsive & language-appropriate mental health support & services; guidance & policies.

Summary

Department of Education; culturally responsive and language-appropriate mental health support and services; guidance and policies. Requires, no later than October 1, 2026, 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.

Issues: ✓ Education ✓ Healthcare

Bill status vetoed 4 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Feb 2025

House of Delegates Passage

Mar 2025

Senate Passage

Mar 2025

Vetoed

Mar 2025

Introduced Jan 8, 2025 Vetoed Mar 24, 2025

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What changed between versions

Engrossed → Enrolled · 2 edits · Mar 10, 2025

MINOR

The bill transitioned from Engrossed to Enrolled status, finalizing the text with minor formatting adjustments and clarifying the deadline date from 2025 to 2026. The substantive policy requirements remain unchanged, maintaining the mandate for the Department of Education to provide guidance on culturally responsive mental health services and allowing local school boards to adopt consistent policies.

TIMELINE

The deadline for the Department of Education to develop guidance was changed from October 1, 2025 to October 1, 2026, likely to allow more time for policy development and adoption.

TECHNICAL

Minor formatting and layout changes occurred as the bill moved from draft to final enrolled version, including removal of amendment markers and addition of official enrolled headers.

Floor votes · Senate Feb 19, 2025 · House of Delegates Jan 28, 2025

How they voted

40–0

Passed

Total votes 40

Feb 19, 2025

D Democratic21

21 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican19

19 Yea

100% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Amendments

Apr 2, 2025

Vetoed

House sustained Governor's veto

lower

Mar 24, 2025

Vetoed

Vetoed by Governor

executive

Mar 10, 2025

Upper · Passed

Signed by President

upper

Mar 7, 2025

Lower · Passed

Signed by Speaker

lower

Mar 7, 2025

Lower · Passed

Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2341ER)

lower

Feb 20, 2025

Upper · Passed

Passed Senate (20-Y 19-N)

upper

Feb 19, 2025

Upper · Passed

Passed by for the day

upper

Feb 17, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N)

upper

Feb 13, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N)

upper

Feb 6, 2025

Committee

Assigned Education sub: Public Education

upper

Jan 29, 2025

Committee

Referred to Committee on Education and Health

upper

Jan 28, 2025

Lower · Passed

Read third time and passed House (57-Y 42-N)

lower

Jan 27, 2025

Introduced

Engrossed by House as amended

lower

Jan 27, 2025

Lower · Passed

Education Amendments agreed to

lower

Jan 22, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported from Education with amendment(s) (17-Y 5-N)

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Lower · Passed

Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)

lower

Jan 18, 2025

Committee

Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee

lower

Jan 8, 2025

Committee

Referred to Committee on Education

lower

1 primary · 12 co-sponsors