---
type: "Bill"
title: "School boards; schoolwide events with parents, free or reduced price meals applications."
description: "School boards; schoolwide events with parents, free or reduced price meals applications."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2021"
citation: "Virginia HB 2021 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roem"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 39
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-10"
last_action: "2023-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f46e31b4-dafb-4f5b-8266-5343b3880c8b"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB2021"
source_hash: "c7b4d118d5a975c13736191733c0dbec32510da3edca90166e4fa2fadb939810"
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 2021 (2023) — School boards; schoolwide events with parents, free or reduced price meals applications.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0125** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0125)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23105323D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2021H1)
3. **HB2021ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2021ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102014D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2021)
5. **Printed as engrossed 23105323D-EH1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2021EH1)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 2-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (66-Y 33-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Education with substitute (16-Y 5-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Roem — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102014D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-10** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-19** Impact statement from DPB (HB2021)
- **2023-01-23** Assigned Education sub: K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-24** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 2-N) `substitution`
- **2023-01-25** Reported from Education with substitute (16-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-25** Committee substitute printed 23105323D-H1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-26** Impact statement from DPB (HB2021H1)
- **2023-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-01-30** Committee substitute agreed to 23105323D-H1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-30** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2021H1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-31** Passed by for the day
- **2023-02-01** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-02-01** Engrossment reconsidered by House
- **2023-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-01** Amendment by Delegate Roem agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-01** Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendment HB2021EH1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-01** Printed as engrossed 23105323D-EH1
- **2023-02-02** Impact statement from DPB (HB2021EH1)
- **2023-02-02** Read third time and passed House (66-Y 33-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-02** VOTE: Passage (66-Y 33-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-02-03** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-13** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-20** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-23** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2021ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Impact statement from DPB (HB2021ER)
- **2023-02-23** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 125 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0125)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f46e31b4-dafb-4f5b-8266-5343b3880c8b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).