---
type: "Bill"
title: "School Breakfast Program/National School Lunch Program; school boards to determine eligibility, etc."
description: "School Breakfast Program/National School Lunch Program; school boards to determine eligibility, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2400"
citation: "Virginia HB 2400 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Danica A. Roem"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/76d154da-3808-495e-856d-959c7c4b09b8"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2400"
source_hash: "49d3ccec8ad019b1d9920894a642832bb53991b8d294b6e568e25adcc9d4c499"
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 2400 (2019) — School Breakfast Program/National School Lunch Program; school boards to determine eligibility, etc.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0228)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0228)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2400ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2400ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102243D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2400)

## Votes

- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education — **20–2** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House — **90–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Danica A. Roem — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Charniele L. Herring — cosponsor (person)
- Cheryl B. Turpin — cosponsor (person)
- Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
- David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
- David J. Toscano — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Bulova — cosponsor (person)
- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Debra H. Rodman — cosponsor (person)
- Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
- Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn R. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
- James W. Morefield — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey M. Bourne — cosponsor (person)
- Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer Carroll Foy — cosponsor (person)
- Jerrauld C. "Jay" Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)
- Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
- Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
- Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
- Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
- Lee J. Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Luke E. Torian — cosponsor (person)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)
- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew James - Resigned 5/19 — cosponsor (person)
- Michael P. Mullin — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
- Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
- Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Richard P. Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Robert M. "Bob" Thomas, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Roslyn C. Tyler — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
- Schuyler T. VanValkenburg — cosponsor (person)
- Steve E. Heretick — cosponsor (person)
- Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)
- Wendy W. Gooditis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102243D `introduction`
- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-18** Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-02-01** Read third time and passed House (90-Y 5-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-04** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-14** Enrolled
- **2019-02-14** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
- **2019-02-18** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2019
- **2019-02-18** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 228 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/76d154da-3808-495e-856d-959c7c4b09b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).