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§ 22.1-298.6 Mental health awareness training

A. Each school board shall adopt and implement policies that require each teacher and other relevant personnel, as determined by the school board, employed on a full-time basis, to complete a mental health awareness training or similar program at least once.

B. Each school board shall provide required personnel the training required by subsection A and may 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 as defined in § 37.2-312.2 to provide such training. Such training may be provided via an online module.

History

This law was first created in 2020. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 471 and 472 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.

2020, cc. 471, 472.

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Amendment Attempts

HB1643: Teacher licensure; alternate routes.

SB1472: Public schools; Mental Health First Aid training. (failed)

HB74: Public schools; mental health awareness training required. (passed)

HB716: Public school employees, certain; online mental health awareness training required.

HB1554: Public schools; Mental Health First Aid training every three years.

HB2154: School bus drivers; mental health awareness training. (failed)

HB224: Public schools; mental health awareness training. (failed)

HB38: Public schools; mental health awareness training and instruction, requirements. (passed)

HB495: School boards; mental health awareness training for full-time school bus drivers. (failed)