School meal debt; donations.
Summary
School meal debt; donations. Permits anyschool board to solicit and receive any donation or other funds forthe purpose of eliminating or offsetting any school meal debt atany time during the school year and requires each school board touse any such funds solely for such purpose, provided, however, thatno such funds are obtained in an illegal or illicit manner. The billprovides that if a school board receives a donation that does notentirely eliminate or offset the total school meal debt at any timeduring the school year, the school board shall distribute the donation proportionately among each school meal debt.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Mar 2020
Signed into Law
Mar 2020
Introduced Jan 6, 2020
Signed Mar 31, 2020
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate. No roll call record of that vote is available.
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
29
Key actions
8
Committee
8
Amendments
1
Mar 31, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 575 (effective 7/1/20)
executive
Mar 2, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 27, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 18, 2020
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
upper
Feb 10, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Feb 7, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 6, 2020
Introduced
Engrossed by House as amended HB703E
lower
Feb 6, 2020
Lower · Passed
Committee amendments agreed to
lower
Feb 6, 2020
Lower · Passed
Passed by temporarily
lower
Feb 3, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education with amendments (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 29, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 13, 2020
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12
lower
Jan 6, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 6, 2020
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104003D
lower
1 primary · 5 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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