BILL · 2019–20 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SHB 1479

HB 1479: Student mental health

Building capacity within the educator workforce to improve student mental health and well-being.

Summary

Directs the Professional Educator Standards Board (PESB) and the Paraeducator Board to incorporate social emotional learning standards, benchmarks, and specified related competencies into standards for principals, teachers, and paraeducators.
Directs the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to create and publish on its website an inventory of resources available for professional development of school district staff on specified topics.
Requires school districts to use one of the state funded professional learning days to train staff on specified topics, every other school year.
Directs the PESB to review preparation programs to assess whether and to what extent the programs are meeting knowledge, skills, and performance standards, and publish the results on its website.

From the House Bill Report (HB 1479), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to building capacity within the educator workforce to improve student mental health and well-being;

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

Jan 13, 2020By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. (SHB 1479)
Jan 13, 2020By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
Feb 22, 2019Referred to Appropriations. (SHB 1479)
Feb 22, 2019Referred to Appropriations.
Feb 19, 2019ED - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SHB 1479)
Feb 19, 2019ED - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
Jan 23, 2019First reading, referred to Education.

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

HB 1479 (2025–26) Office of native ed. grants · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1479 (2023–24) Student restraint, isolation · Did not pass · passed House, stalled in Senate
HB 1479 (2021–22) Fire apparatus/sales tax · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1479 (2017–18) State IT systems encryption · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1479 (2015–16) Pacific std. time/year-round · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1479 (2013–14) Leased land for mobile home · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1479 (2011–12) Statute law committee · Enacted · Chapter 156, Laws of 2011
HB 1479 (2009–10) Adverse possession claims · Did not pass · died in committee