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2019 SESSION
HB 1735 Student Behavioral Health, Commission on; established, report.
Introduced by: Roxann L. Robinson | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Commission on Student Behavioral Health created. Establishes the Commission on Student Behavioral Health as a legislative branch commission. The purpose of the Commission shall be to (i) assess the efficacy of developing and implementing a statewide behavioral health and suicide prevention hotline that students may use to report threats of violence or receive real-time counseling services; (ii) review the current school counselor-to-student ratio, and whether the realignment of counseling responsibilities proposed by the House Select Committee on School Safety is improving schools' ability to provide counseling services to students; (iii) review the current roles and responsibilities of school nurses, psychologists, and social workers in schools and determine whether a realignment of responsibilities could improve or streamline behavioral health services offered to students; (iv) evaluate the efficacy and costs of providing enhanced behavioral health services in schools delivered through partnerships established between school divisions and local departments of social services and community services boards; (v) assess the effectiveness of de-escalation and other alternative disciplinary policies when interacting with students suffering from behavioral health challenges; (vi) examine the value of additional teacher training requirements on student behavioral health, such as mental health first aid; and (vii) examine other topics related to student behavioral health identified by the Commission. The Commission shall consist of 12 members as follows: seven members of the House of Delegates, of whom two shall be members of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions, two shall be members of the House Committee on Education, two shall be members of the House Committee on Appropriations, and one shall be a member at-large, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates; and five members of the Senate, of whom two shall be members of the Senate Committee on Education and Health, two shall be members of the Senate Committee on Finance, and one shall be a member at-large, to be appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules. The Commission may appoint, employ, and remove an executive director and such other persons as it deems necessary and determine their duties and fix their salaries or compensation within the amounts appropriated therefor. The Commission may also employ experts who have special knowledge of the issues before it. All agencies of the Commonwealth shall provide assistance to the Commission, upon request. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2021.
FULL TEXT
- 12/19/18 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101085D pdf | impact statement
- 02/04/19 House: Printed as engrossed 19101085D-E pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- House amendments adopted
- Senate amendments
- Senate amendments engrossed
HISTORY
- 12/19/18 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101085D
- 12/19/18 House: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 01/17/19 House: Assigned Rules sub: Subcommittee #1
- 01/29/19 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (6-Y 1-N)
- 01/31/19 House: Reported from Rules with amendment (15-Y 1-N)
- 02/03/19 House: Read first time
- 02/04/19 House: Read second time
- 02/04/19 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/04/19 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB1735E
- 02/04/19 House: Printed as engrossed 19101085D-E
- 02/05/19 House: Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/19 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/06/19 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 02/18/19 Senate: Reported from Rules with amendments (12-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/19 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/18/19 Senate: Reported from Finance with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/19 Senate: Read third time
- 02/20/19 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/20/19 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/20/19 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/20/19 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/20/19 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/20/19 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/19 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/21/19 House: Senate amendments rejected by House (1-Y 99-N)
- 02/21/19 House: VOTE: REJECTED (1-Y 99-N)
- 02/21/19 Senate: Senate insisted on amendments (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/19 Senate: Senate requested conference committee
- 02/21/19 House: House acceded to request
- 02/21/19 House: Conferees appointed by House
- 02/21/19 House: Delegates: Robinson, Jones, S.C., O'Quinn, Torian
- 02/21/19 Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 02/21/19 Senate: Senators: McDougle, Newman, Saslaw
- 02/24/19 House: No further action taken
- 02/24/19 House: Failed to pass in House