VA SB768 | 2025 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on January 20 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-01-23 - Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB768)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Status: Engrossed on January 20 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-01-23 - Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB768)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Summary
Department of Education; survey of local education agencies on school-based mental and behavioral health services; report. Requires the Department of Education (the Department) to survey each local education agency (LEA) in the Commonwealth to determine (i) how public schools governed by such LEA currently grant access to local departments of social services and community services boards and other community-based providers of mental and behavioral health services and (ii) what school-based mental and behavioral health services are made available by such LEA. The bill requires the Department to utilize the results of and feedback from the survey to inform the continued development and improvement of guidelines for school professionals to support students and families by connecting them with community resources that provide mental and behavioral health services. The bill requires the Department to report to the Commission on Youth by November 1, 2025, any findings and recommendations that result from the survey.
Title
School-based mental and behavioral health services; DOE to survey local education agencies, report.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2025-01-21 - Senate - Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-17 - Senate - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-16 - Senate - Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-01-17 - Senate - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-16 - Senate - Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-23 | Senate | Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB768) |
| 2025-01-21 | Senate | Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-20 | Senate | Read second time and engrossed |
| 2025-01-17 | Senate | Passed by for the day |
| 2025-01-17 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-17 | Senate | Rules suspended |
| 2025-01-16 | Senate | Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-12-17 | Senate | Referred to Committee on Education and Health |
| 2024-12-17 | Senate | Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101253D |
