Virginia House Bill 716 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-01-22 - Incorporated by Education
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Certain public school employees; online mental health awareness training required. Requires the Department of Education to adopt and implement policies that require each teacher, school counselor, school athletics team coach, and school activity supervisor to complete an online mental health awareness training. The bill requires the Department of Education to provide such training and permits the Department of Education to contract with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, a community services board, a behavioral health authority, a nonprofit organization, or other certified trainer to provide such training.

Public school employees, certain; online mental health awareness training required.

Del. David Reid [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-01-22	House	Incorporated by Education
2020-01-20	House	Subcommittee recommends incorporating (HB74-Kory) by voice vote
2020-01-13	House	Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12
2020-01-06	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2020-01-06	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101072D

HB76 (Similar To) 2020-01-31 - Continued to 2021 in Courts of Justice by voice vote

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	298.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB716
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB716+hil