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Bill	School boards; availability of school meals to students, effective date.	School boards; school meals; availability to students. Requires each school board to require each public elementary and secondary school in the local school division to participate in the federal National School Lunch Program and the federal School Breakfast Program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and to make meals available pursuant to such programs to any student who requests such a meal, regardless of whether such student has the money to pay for the meal or owes money for meals previously provided, unless the student's parent has provided written permission to the school board to withhold such a meal from the student. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2021.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 1426	Virginia HB 1426 (2020)	bill		enacted	Danica A. Roem	4	42	11	2020-01-08	2020-04-06	openstates	ocd-bill/9fc66738-b979-4add-b40e-2bb2ba8b912c	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1426	8ee4e63dd09dfc7e41c876077c245bc8244d4b3022a1f2d68ef59e807fbf75e1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1426 (2020) — School boards; availability of school meals to students, effective date.

School boards; school meals; availability to students. Requires each school board to require each public elementary and secondary school in the local school division to participate in the federal National School Lunch Program and the federal School Breakfast Program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and to make meals available pursuant to such programs to any student who requests such a meal, regardless of whether such student has the money to pay for the meal or owes money for meals previously provided, unless the student's parent has provided written permission to the school board to withhold such a meal from the student. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2021.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0683) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1426ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House as amended HB1426E (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (HB1426) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education (17-Y 5-N) — 17–5 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations with amendment (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (79-Y 19-N) — 78–19 (pass) · lower
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N) — 5–3 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health with amendments (13-Y 2-N) — 13–2 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (79-Y 17-N) — 78–17 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with amendments (38-Y 2-N) — 38–2 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with amendments (38-Y 2-N) — 38–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Danica A. Roem — primary (person)
• Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
• Clinton L. Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
• Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
• Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
• Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102508D introduction
• 2020-01-08 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2020-01-13 Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 referral-committee
• 2020-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N)
• 2020-01-29 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 2020-01-31 Impact statement from DPB (HB1426)
• 2020-02-03 Reported from Education (17-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-03 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-02-03 Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education referral-committee
• 2020-02-05 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-02-05 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (7-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-05 Reported from Appropriations with amendment (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-06 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-07 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-07 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2020-02-07 Engrossed by House as amended HB1426E
• 2020-02-07 Printed as engrossed 20102508D-E
• 2020-02-10 Read third time and passed House (79-Y 19-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-10 VOTE: Passage (79-Y 19-N)
• 2020-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-11 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-02-18 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2020-02-18 Impact statement from DPB (HB1426E)
• 2020-02-27 Reported from Education and Health with amendments (13-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-28 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-02 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-03-02 Reading of amendments waived
• 2020-03-02 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2020-03-02 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2020-03-02 Passed Senate with amendments (38-Y 2-N) passage
• 2020-03-02 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-02 Passed Senate with amendments (38-Y 2-N) passage
• 2020-03-03 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-03-03 Senate amendments agreed to by House (79-Y 17-N)
• 2020-03-03 VOTE: Adoption (79-Y 17-N)
• 2020-03-06 Enrolled
• 2020-03-06 Impact statement from DPB (HB1426ER)
• 2020-03-06 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-06 Signed by President
• 2020-03-12 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
• 2020-03-12 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 683 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9fc66738-b979-4add-b40e-2bb2ba8b912c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).