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type: "Bill"
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title: "School meal debt; donations."
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description: "School meal debt; donations. Permits anyschool board to solicit and receive any donation or other funds forthe purpose of eliminating or offsetting any school meal debt atany time during the school year and requires each school board touse any such funds solely for such purpose, provided, however, thatno such funds are obtained in an illegal or illicit manner. The billprovides that if a school board receives a donation that does notentirely eliminate or offset the total school meal debt at any timeduring the school year, the school board shall distribute the donation proportionately among each school meal debt."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2020"
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identifier: "HB 703"
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citation: "Virginia HB 703 (2020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Danica A. Roem"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 29
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2020-01-06"
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last_action: "2020-03-31"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42fccb5f-f691-4514-a2d0-ea8af91af958"
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source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB703"
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source_hash: "fffb049526576eef87a7e515da7775de60ee67fbeb68c7ed2f6a63a4f83746b5"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 703 (2020) — School meal debt; donations.
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School meal debt; donations. Permits anyschool board to solicit and receive any donation or other funds forthe purpose of eliminating or offsetting any school meal debt atany time during the school year and requires each school board touse any such funds solely for such purpose, provided, however, thatno such funds are obtained in an illegal or illicit manner. The billprovides that if a school board receives a donation that does notentirely eliminate or offset the total school meal debt at any timeduring the school year, the school board shall distribute the donation proportionately among each school meal debt.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0575)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0575)
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2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB703ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB703ER)
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3. **Engrossed by House as amended HB703E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB703E)
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4. **Impact statement from DPB (HB703)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB703)
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## Votes
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- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Education with amendments (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
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- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
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- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Danica A. Roem — primary (person)
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- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
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- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
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- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
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- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
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- Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104003D `introduction`
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- **2020-01-06** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
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- **2020-01-13** Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 `referral-committee`
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- **2020-01-28** Impact statement from DPB (HB703)
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- **2020-01-29** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
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- **2020-02-03** Reported from Education with amendments (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2020-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2020-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2020-02-06** Passed by temporarily
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- **2020-02-06** Committee amendments agreed to
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- **2020-02-06** Engrossed by House as amended HB703E
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- **2020-02-06** Printed as engrossed 20104003D-E
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- **2020-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2020-02-07** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
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- **2020-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2020-02-10** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
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- **2020-02-13** Impact statement from DPB (HB703E)
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- **2020-02-18** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
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- **2020-02-27** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2020-02-28** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
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- **2020-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2020-03-02** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
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- **2020-03-05** Enrolled
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- **2020-03-05** Impact statement from DPB (HB703ER)
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- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
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- **2020-03-06** Signed by President
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- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
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- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
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- **2020-03-31** Approved by Governor-Chapter 575 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/42fccb5f-f691-4514-a2d0-ea8af91af958`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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