Public elementary and secondary school students; ability to pay for meals and school meal debt.
Summary
Public elementary and secondary school students;ability to pay for meals and school meal debt; extracurricular schoolactivities. Requires each school board to adopt policies thatprohibit the school board or any school board employee from denyinga student the opportunity to participate in any extracurricular schoolactivity because the student cannot pay for a meal at school or owesa school meal debt.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Mar 2022
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2022
Senate Passage
Mar 2022
Signed into Law
Apr 2022
Introduced Jan 11, 2022
Signed Apr 11, 2022
Floor votes · Senate Mar 7, 2022 · House of Delegates Feb 4, 2022
How they voted
32–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 34
Mar 7, 2022
D
Democratic18
88% Yea
R
Republican16
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
26
Key actions
8
Committee
7
Apr 11, 2022
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 686 (effective 7/1/22)
executive
Mar 8, 2022
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
upper
Mar 7, 2022
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (32-0-2)
senate
Mar 4, 2022
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Mar 3, 2022
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 16, 2022
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
upper
Feb 7, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Feb 4, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (75-Y 25-N)
lower
Jan 31, 2022
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education (17-Y 5-N)
lower
Jan 25, 2022
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 24, 2022
Committee
Assigned Education sub: K-12
lower
Jan 11, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 11, 2022
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101050D
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Danica Roem
DDemocratic
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