HB 1426 Virginia House of Delegates · 2020 Regular Session

School boards; availability of school meals to students, effective date.

Summary
School boards; school meals; availability to students. Requires each school board to require each public elementary and secondary school in the local school division to participate in the federal National School Lunch Program and the federal School Breakfast Program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and to make meals available pursuant to such programs to any student who requests such a meal, regardless of whether such student has the money to pay for the meal or owes money for meals previously provided, unless the student's parent has provided written permission to the school board to withhold such a meal from the student. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2021.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Mar 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Mar 2020
Signed into Law
Apr 2020
Introduced Jan 8, 2020 Signed Apr 6, 2020
Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
41
Key actions
12
Committee
15
Amendments
4
Apr 6, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 683 (effective 7/1/21)
executive
Mar 3, 2020
Introduced
Senate amendments agreed to by House (79-Y 17-N)
lower
Mar 2, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate with amendments (38-Y 2-N)
upper
Mar 2, 2020
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended
upper
Mar 2, 2020
Upper · Passed
Committee amendments agreed to
upper
Mar 2, 2020
Introduced
Reading of amendments waived
upper
Feb 27, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health with amendments (13-Y 2-N)
upper
Feb 18, 2020
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
upper
Feb 11, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Feb 10, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (79-Y 19-N)
lower
Feb 7, 2020
Introduced
Engrossed by House as amended HB1426E
lower
Feb 7, 2020
Lower · Passed
Committee amendment agreed to
lower
Feb 5, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Appropriations with amendment (21-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 5, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (7-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 5, 2020
Lower · Passed
House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Feb 3, 2020
Committee
Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
lower
Feb 3, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Appropriations
lower
Feb 3, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education (17-Y 5-N)
lower
Jan 29, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
lower
Jan 29, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N)
lower
Jan 13, 2020
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12
lower
Jan 8, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 8, 2020
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102508D
lower
1 primary · 9 co-sponsors

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