HB495
School boards; mental health awareness training for full-time school bus drivers.
Status:
In Senate
Latest Action:
March 5, 2026
Senate: Continued to next session in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
Chief Patron:
Elizabeth Guzman (D)
Session:
2026 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. 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 ... (More) aid training program into a two-hour module that any school board may utilize in order to train full-time school bus drivers. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/12/2026 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102869D
- 01/12/2026 - House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/29/2026 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB495)
- 01/30/2026 - House: Assigned HED sub: K-12 Subcommittee
- 01/30/2026 - House: Placed on Education Agenda
- 02/03/2026 - House: House subcommittee offered
- 02/03/2026 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and referring to Appropriations (7-Y 3-N)
- 02/03/2026 - House: Placed on Education Agenda
- 02/10/2026 - House: Placed on Education Agenda
- 02/11/2026 - House: House committee offered
- 02/11/2026 - House: Reported from Education with substitute (14-Y 7-N)
- 02/11/2026 - House: Committee substitute printed 26107573D-H1
- 02/12/2026 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB495)
- 02/13/2026 - House: Read first time
- 02/16/2026 - House: Read second time
- 02/16/2026 - House: committee substitute agreed to
- 02/16/2026 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute
- 02/17/2026 - House: Read third time and passed House (62-Y 34-N 0-A) Close Floor Vote
- 02/18/2026 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/18/2026 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/26/2026 - Senate: Assigned Education sub: Public Education
- 03/05/2026 - Senate: Continued to next session in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
