---
type: "Bill"
title: "Restaurants; food allergy awareness notice required."
description: "Restaurants; food allergy awareness notice required. Requires the State Health Commissioner to publish in multiple languages a notice on the Department of Health's website containing procedures for restaurant staff to follow when a customer has a food allergy. The bill requires restaurants to post such notice in a conspicuous location. The bill also requires restaurants to include the phrase, \"If you have a food allergy, please notify us,\" and its translation, if applicable, on their menus or on a sign posted conspicuously in the restaurant. This bill is identical to HB 373."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 248"
citation: "Virginia SB 248 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kannan Srinivasan"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 31
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2026-01-12"
last_action: "2026-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b321f81e-e81b-4f43-8935-f35db86536d2"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB248"
source_hash: "79d973361bcee92047379712256bed65ecf89c95635ada2aa73d9ec32b9d772a"
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 248 (2026) — Restaurants; food allergy awareness notice required.

Restaurants; food allergy awareness notice required. Requires the State Health Commissioner to publish in multiple languages a notice on the Department of Health's website containing procedures for restaurant staff to follow when a customer has a food allergy. The bill requires restaurants to post such notice in a conspicuous location. The bill also requires restaurants to include the phrase, "If you have a food allergy, please notify us," and its translation, if applicable, on their menus or on a sign posted conspicuously in the restaurant. This bill is identical to HB 373.

## 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/1086973.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1216491.PDF)
3. **Health and Human Services Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1169863.HTML)
4. **House Amendments** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1178724.HTML)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1186693.PDF)

## Votes

- Rereferred from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed R — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health — **10–5** (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — **65–32** (pass) · lower
- Passage R — **24–15** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) — **15–6** (pass) · lower
- Concur House Amendments R — **24–16** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kannan Srinivasan — primary (person)
- Tara A. Durant — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100947D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-12** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-20** Rereferred from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources to Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-27** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-29** Reported from Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-30** Rules suspended
- **2026-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (38-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-01-30** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- **2026-02-02** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-02** Engrossed by Senate (Voice Vote)
- **2026-02-03** Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 15-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-05** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB248)
- **2026-02-06** Placed on Calendar
- **2026-02-06** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-06** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-19** Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) (15-Y 6-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-23** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-24** committee amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-24** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2026-02-24** Passed House with amendments (65-Y 32-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-02-26** House amendments agreed to by Senate (24-Y 16-N 0-A) `amendment-passage`
- **2026-03-02** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-02** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB248ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-02** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB248)
- **2026-03-02** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-02** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-10** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 125 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-06** 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/b321f81e-e81b-4f43-8935-f35db86536d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).