republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-698.md

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Bill	School boards; distribution of excess food.	School boards; distribution of excess food. Allows public school boards to distribute excess food to students eligible for the School Breakfast Program or National School Lunch Program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture or to students who the school board determines are otherwise eligible to receive excess food. A school board is also allowed to develop a policy for distributing excess food, saving it for later, or donating it.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 698	Virginia HB 698 (2020)	bill		enacted	Danica A. Roem	4	28	6	2020-01-06	2020-03-31	openstates	ocd-bill/55c6cc7d-aebc-4cff-ade0-6e7664901dee	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB698	c46f4ebae5fe845202e921ff9c698bc2f52a63be02bb8b3e883c8f729ef411d0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 698 (2020) — School boards; distribution of excess food.

School boards; distribution of excess food. Allows public school boards to distribute excess food to students eligible for the School Breakfast Program or National School Lunch Program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture or to students who the school board determines are otherwise eligible to receive excess food. A school board is also allowed to develop a policy for distributing excess food, saving it for later, or donating it.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0574) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB698ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House as amended HB698E (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (HB698) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education with amendments (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Danica A. Roem — primary (person)
• Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
• Glenn R. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
• Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
• Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
• Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
• Kaye Kory — 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 20100879D 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 (HB698)
• 2020-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-03 Reported from Education with amendments (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-05 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-06 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-06 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2020-02-06 Engrossed by House as amended HB698E
• 2020-02-06 Printed as engrossed 20100879D-E
• 2020-02-07 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-07 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-10 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-02-13 Impact statement from DPB (HB698E)
• 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 Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-03-05 Enrolled
• 2020-03-05 Impact statement from DPB (HB698ER)
• 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
• 2020-03-31 Approved by Governor-Chapter 574 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/55c6cc7d-aebc-4cff-ade0-6e7664901dee. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).