School boards; powers and duties, school meal policies, payment of school meal debt.
Summary
School boards; powers and duties; school meal policies; payment of school meal debt. Requires each school board, at the end of each school year, to pay for the total unpaid school meal balance, resulting from uncollectable school meal debts on any student account, on the nonprofit school food service account for each public elementary or secondary school in the school division using any appropriated nonfederal funds, except that each school board is prohibited from requiring any public elementary or secondary school in the school division from paying for or providing any funds to pay for such school's unpaid school meal balance. The bill requires each school board to adopt policies in accordance with the provisions of the bill in order to pay these unpaid balances at the end of each school year.
Bill status
passed both
4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Apr 2025
House of Delegates Passage
Mar 2025
Vetoed
Mar 2025
Introduced Jan 7, 2025
Vetoed Mar 24, 2025
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What changed between versions
Introduced
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Enrolled
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3 edits
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Mar 10, 2025
MINOR
This bill moved from introduction to enrolled status, meaning it has been approved by both legislative chambers and is ready to become law. The substantive policy content regarding school meal debt protections remained unchanged throughout the legislative process. The enrolled version includes standard formatting and numbering adjustments typical of final legislative documents.
TECHNICAL
Document formatting changed from draft bill format to enrolled bill format with proper page numbering, chapter designation, and approval markings.
Minor text adjustments including changing 'uncollectable' from 'uncollected' in subsection A.5 and removing 'and' before 'using' in subsection C for grammatical consistency.
Added standard enrolled bill header information including session year, bill number, and approval designation.
Floor votes · Senate Jan 24, 2025 · House of Delegates Feb 20, 2025
How they voted
37–0
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 40
Jan 24, 2025
D
Democratic21
95% Yea
R
Republican19
89% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
33
Key actions
12
Committee
7
Amendments
3
Apr 2, 2025
Vetoed
Senate sustained Governor's veto
upper
Apr 2, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Mar 24, 2025
Vetoed
Vetoed by Governor
executive
Mar 10, 2025
Upper · Passed
Signed by President
upper
Mar 7, 2025
Lower · Passed
Signed by Speaker
lower
Mar 7, 2025
Upper · Passed
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1017ER)
upper
Feb 20, 2025
Upper · Passed
House Amendments agreed to by Senate (35-Y 4-N)
upper
Feb 20, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed House with amendments (58-Y 39-N)
lower
Feb 20, 2025
Introduced
Engrossed by House as amended
lower
Feb 20, 2025
Lower · Passed
Education Amendments agreed to
lower
Feb 17, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education with amendment(s) (13-Y 9-N)
lower
Feb 11, 2025
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 2-N)
lower
Feb 10, 2025
Committee
Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee
lower
Feb 3, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 28, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read third time and passed Senate (35-Y 4-N)
upper
Jan 24, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Jan 23, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 2-N)
upper
Jan 16, 2025
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
upper
Jan 7, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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