---
type: "Bill"
title: "School boards; board policy for students unable to pay for a meal at school."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2013"
citation: "Virginia HB 2013 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Danica A. Roem"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-11"
last_action: "2021-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd922a26-b33c-42ae-8451-f6f1665a4c20"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB2013"
source_hash: "ea7abc6a93ca5114d1b66b8ec7a3d6f34d2b194dc306070546852a8a74beeed4"
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 2013 (2021) — School boards; board policy for students unable to pay for a meal at school.

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.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **CHAP0106** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0106)
2. **HB2013ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2013ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101524D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2013)
4. **Printed as engrossed 21101524D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2013E)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (69-Y 31-N) — **68–31** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N) — **5–3** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education with amendment(s) (16-Y 6-N) — **16–6** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 1-N) — **14–1** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (29-Y 10-N) — **29–10** (pass) · upper
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Danica A. Roem — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
- David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Don L. Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
- Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
- Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
- Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
- Lee J. Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
- Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
- Roslyn C. Tyler — cosponsor (person)
- Sally L. Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
- Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)
- Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101524D `introduction`
- **2021-01-11** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-15** Impact statement from DPB (HB2013)
- **2021-01-19** Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-22** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-01-22** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N)
- **2021-01-25** Reported from Education with amendment(s) (16-Y 6-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-26** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-01-27** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2021-01-27** Engrossed by House as amended HB2013E
- **2021-01-27** Printed as engrossed 21101524D-E
- **2021-01-28** Read third time and passed House (69-Y 31-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-28** VOTE: Passage (69-Y 31-N)
- **2021-01-29** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-01-29** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-02** Impact statement from DPB (HB2013E)
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-10** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-18** Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-22** Passed Senate (29-Y 10-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-25** Enrolled
- **2021-02-25** Impact statement from DPB (HB2013ER)
- **2021-02-25** Signed by President
- **2021-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-03-01** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
- **2021-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-12** Approved by Governor-Chapter 106 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dd922a26-b33c-42ae-8451-f6f1665a4c20`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).