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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "School meals; adoption of policies."
+description: "School meal policies. Requires each localschool board to adopt policies that prohibit school board employeesfrom requiring a student who cannot pay for a meal at school or whoowes a school meal debt to throw away or discard a meal after ithas been served to him."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 697"
+citation: "Virginia HB 697 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Danica A. Roem"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2020-01-06"
+last_action: "2020-03-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/34ff5ee4-d720-46b4-a3c5-f33888f675b5"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB697"
+source_hash: "284ff6e5a874e4cbc1e7248bb8058c417d2e23e5cdc813b6a0ee9933155c08cf"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 697 (2020) — School meals; adoption of policies.
+
+School meal policies. Requires each localschool board to adopt policies that prohibit school board employeesfrom requiring a student who cannot pay for a meal at school or whoowes a school meal debt to throw away or discard a meal after ithas been served to him.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0509)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0509)
+2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB697ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB697ER)
+3. **Impact statement from DPB (HB697)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB697)
+
+## Votes
+
+- VOTE: Passage (94-Y 6-N) — **93–6** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — **7–1** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Education (17-Y 1-N) — **17–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Danica A. Roem — primary (person)
+- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- Glenn R. Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
+- Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
+- Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
+- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
+- Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Lee Ware — cosponsor (person)
+- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
+- Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100887D `introduction`
+- **2020-01-06** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-13** Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-16** Impact statement from DPB (HB697)
+- **2020-01-29** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
+- **2020-02-03** Reported from Education (17-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-07** Read third time and passed House (94-Y 6-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-02-07** VOTE: Passage (94-Y 6-N)
+- **2020-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2020-02-10** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-18** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-27** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-28** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-02** Passed by for the day
+- **2020-03-03** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-03** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2020-03-06** Enrolled
+- **2020-03-06** Impact statement from DPB (HB697ER)
+- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
+- **2020-03-06** Signed by President
+- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
+- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
+- **2020-03-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 509 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/34ff5ee4-d720-46b4-a3c5-f33888f675b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+