SB 1377 Virginia Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Mental Health First Aid Program; DOE, et al., to develop, participation by school staff & students.

Summary
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 HB 2637.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Mar 2025
House of Delegates Passage
Mar 2025
Signed into Law
Mar 2025
Introduced Jan 13, 2025 Signed Mar 21, 2025
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What changed between versions

Enrolled Chaptered · 1 edit
MINOR
The bill was finalized and assigned Chapter 302, with the approval date set to March 21, 2025. A minor text edit was made to simplify the description of the informational materials, removing a specific reference to the 'Mental Health First Aid Program' in favor of just 'the Program' to improve readability.
TECHNICAL

The text describing informational materials was slightly shortened by removing the full name of the program, changing 'describe the Mental Health First Aid Program' to 'describe the Program'. This is a stylistic refinement rather than a change in policy.

Floor votes · Senate Jan 31, 2025 · House of Delegates Feb 19, 2025

How they voted

390
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 40
Jan 31, 2025
D Democratic21
21 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican19
18 Yea 1
94% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
37
Key actions
11
Committee
9
Mar 21, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 302 (Effective 07/01/25)
executive
Mar 10, 2025
Upper · Passed
Signed by President
upper
Mar 7, 2025
Lower · Passed
Signed by Speaker
lower
Mar 7, 2025
Upper · Passed
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1377ER)
upper
Feb 19, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed House (97-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 14, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 13, 2025
Committee
Assigned Approps sub: Health & Human Resources
lower
Feb 13, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported from Health and Human Services and referred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 11, 2025
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting and referring to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 6, 2025
Committee
Assigned sub: Behavioral Health
lower
Feb 6, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
lower
Feb 3, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 31, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Jan 30, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 23, 2025
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
upper
Jan 13, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Photo of Ghazala Hashmi
Ghazala Hashmi
DDemocratic
VA
15