Virginia House Bill 495: School boards; mental health awareness training for full-time school bus drivers.

Virginia · 2026 Regular Session

What it does

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.

Latest action

Continued to next session in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (2026-03-05)

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