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BILL · 2015–16 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SHB 2373

HB 2373: Student mental health

Making provisions to evaluate student mental health services and provide students with skills that promote mental health and well-being and increase academic performance.

Summary

  • Requires each Educational Service District (ESD) to develop and maintain the capacity to serve as a convener, trainer, and mentor for school district staff on social and emotional learning.
  • Requires each ESD to offer training on social and emotional learning, beginning in the 2017-18 school year, at no cost if funds are appropriated specifically for this purpose or made available through grants or other sources.
  • Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee to conduct an inventory of the mental health service models available to students in schools, school districts, and ESDs and report its findings to the Legislature by October 31, 2016.
  • Provides that the inventory be performed using data that are already collected and that student-level data not be collected, reviewed, or reported.

From the House Bill Report (HB 2373), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 12, 2016
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Tana Senn (D-41)
Introduced
January 12, 2016 in the House
Last action
March 10, 2016
Companion bill
SB 6432
Budget
Has a fiscal note
Versions
HB 2373, SHB 2373

AN ACT Relating to evaluating student mental health services and providing students with skills that promote mental health and well-being and increase academic performance;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Tana Senn (D-41)

14 co-sponsors (13 Democrats, 1 Republican)

Ruth Kagi D-32Melanie Stambaugh R-25Patty Kuderer D-48Laurie Jinkins D-27Chris Reykdal D-22June Robinson D-38Noel Frame D-36Chris Kilduff D-28David Sawyer D-29Tina Orwall D-33Mike Sells D-38Joan McBride D-48Steve Bergquist D-11Gerry Pollet D-46

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. (SHB 2373)
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. Referred to Appropriations. (SHB 2373)
  4. Referred to Appropriations.
  5. ED - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SHB 2373)
  6. Minority; do not pass. (SHB 2373)
  7. Minority; do not pass.
  8. ED - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  9. First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 2373 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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