School boards; board policy for students unable to pay for a meal at school.
Summary
School board policies; school meal debt; enforcement. Requires each school board to adopt a policy that prohibits the board from filing a lawsuit against a student or the student's parent because the student cannot pay for a meal at school or owes a school meal debt.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2021
Committee Review
Feb 2021
House of Delegates Passage
Jan 2021
Senate Passage
Feb 2021
Signed into Law
Mar 2021
Introduced Jan 11, 2021
Signed Mar 12, 2021
Floor votes · Senate Feb 22, 2021 · House of Delegates Jan 28, 2021
How they voted
24–9
Passed
Total votes 33
Feb 22, 2021
D
Democratic17
100% Yea
R
Republican16
56% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
30
Key actions
8
Committee
9
Amendments
1
Mar 12, 2021
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 106 (effective 7/1/21)
executive
Feb 22, 2021
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (29-Y 10-N)
upper
Feb 18, 2021
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 1-N)
upper
Feb 10, 2021
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
upper
Jan 29, 2021
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Jan 28, 2021
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (69-Y 31-N)
lower
Jan 27, 2021
Introduced
Engrossed by House as amended HB2013E
lower
Jan 27, 2021
Lower · Passed
Committee amendment agreed to
lower
Jan 25, 2021
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education with amendment(s) (16-Y 6-N)
lower
Jan 22, 2021
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N)
lower
Jan 22, 2021
Lower · Passed
House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Jan 19, 2021
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12
lower
Jan 11, 2021
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 11, 2021
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101524D
lower
1 primary · 27 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Danica Roem
DDemocratic
Co
Alfonso Lopez
DDemocratic
Co
Betsy Carr
DDemocratic
Co
Dan Helmer
DDemocratic
Co
David Reid
DDemocratic
Co
Dawn Adams
DDemocratic
Co
Don Scott
DDemocratic
Co
Eileen Filler-Corn
DDemocratic
Co
Hala S. Ayala
DDemocratic
Co
Ibraheem S. Samirah
DDemocratic
Co
Josh Cole
DDemocratic
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