States / Virginia / HB 495

HB 495 Passed First Chamber

School boards; mental health awareness training for full-time school bus drivers.

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School boards; mental health awareness training; full-time school bus drivers. Permits any school board to require each school bus driver employed on a full-time basis in the local school division to complete mental health awareness training at least once. The bill requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to consider condensing and abbreviating the existing mental health first aid training program into a two-hour module that any school board may utilize in order to train full-time school bus drivers.

Chamber
House
Introduced
Jan 12, 2026
Last action
Jul 21, 2026 — Continued from last session
Session
2027
Momentum
78 · High