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Bill School meals; adoption of policies. School meal policies. Requires each localschool board to adopt policies that prohibit school board employeesfrom requiring a student who cannot pay for a meal at school or whoowes a school meal debt to throw away or discard a meal after ithas been served to him. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2020 HB 697 Virginia HB 697 (2020)
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Virginia HB 697 (2020) — School meals; adoption of policies.

School meal policies. Requires each localschool board to adopt policies that prohibit school board employeesfrom requiring a student who cannot pay for a meal at school or whoowes a school meal debt to throw away or discard a meal after ithas been served to him.

Version chain

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

  1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0509) (committee substitute) — source
  2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB697ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. Impact statement from DPB (HB697) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • VOTE: Passage (94-Y 6-N) — 936 (pass) · lower
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — 71 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 370 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 150 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Education (17-Y 1-N) — 171 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Danica A. Roem — primary (person)
  • Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
  • Glenn R. Davis — cosponsor (person)
  • Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
  • Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
  • Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
  • Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
  • Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
  • Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
  • Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
  • Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
  • R. Lee Ware — cosponsor (person)
  • Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
  • Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2020-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100887D introduction
  • 2020-01-06 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
  • 2020-01-13 Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 referral-committee
  • 2020-01-16 Impact statement from DPB (HB697)
  • 2020-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
  • 2020-02-03 Reported from Education (17-Y 1-N) committee-passage
  • 2020-02-05 Read first time reading-1
  • 2020-02-06 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2020-02-07 Read third time and passed House (94-Y 6-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2020-02-07 VOTE: Passage (94-Y 6-N)
  • 2020-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2020-02-10 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
  • 2020-02-18 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
  • 2020-02-27 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2020-02-28 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-03-02 Read third time reading-3
  • 2020-03-02 Passed by for the day
  • 2020-03-03 Read third time reading-3
  • 2020-03-03 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2020-03-06 Enrolled
  • 2020-03-06 Impact statement from DPB (HB697ER)
  • 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
  • 2020-03-27 Approved by Governor-Chapter 509 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/34ff5ee4-d720-46b4-a3c5-f33888f675b5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).