---
type: "Bill"
title: "WIC applications; DH to provide information to food banks regarding providing assistance."
description: "Department of Health; WIC applications; information. Directs the Department of Health to provide information, resources, and education to food banks regarding providing assistance to individuals completing a Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) application."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1019"
citation: "Virginia SB 1019 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Danica A. Roem"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 33
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-01-07"
last_action: "2025-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8ab433b-3b50-4f43-8c04-0cebf03cc118"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1019"
source_hash: "49d4a108784afe133e7cf07d9c5cd1dd020e3700867fc900046634f7825a151d"
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 SB 1019 (2025) — WIC applications; DH to provide information to food banks regarding providing assistance.

Department of Health; WIC applications; information. Directs the Department of Health to provide information, resources, and education to food banks regarding providing assistance to individuals completing a Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) application.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1017536.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1077370.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1066740.PDF)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Rules (17-Y 1-N) — **17–1** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed House (86-Y 10-N) — **86–10** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Danica A. Roem — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101952D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-07** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1019)
- **2025-01-21** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-24** Rules suspended
- **2025-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-24** Passed by for the day
- **2025-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-01-27** Engrossed by Senate
- **2025-01-28** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-03** Placed on Calendar
- **2025-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Assigned sub: Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-06** Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-11** Motion to refer to Rules agreed to
- **2025-02-11** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** Reported from Rules (17-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-20** Passed House (86-Y 10-N) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1019ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1019)
- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled`
- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 513 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0513)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b8ab433b-3b50-4f43-8c04-0cebf03cc118`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).