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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.
Latest development · Jul 21, 2026
Continued from last session
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Continued from last session
Continued to next session in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Read third time and passed House (62-Y 34-N 0-A)
Engrossed by House - committee substitute
committee substitute agreed to
Read second time
Read first time
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB495)
Committee substitute printed 26107573D-H1
Reported from Education with substitute (14-Y 7-N)
House committee offered
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and referring to Appropriations (7-Y 3-N)
House subcommittee offered
Assigned HED sub: K-12 Subcommittee
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB495)
Referred to Committee on Education
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102869D
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