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| Bill | Virginia Agriculture Food Assistance Program and Fund; established and created. | Virginia Agriculture Food Assistance Programand Fund; established. Requires the Commissioner of Agricultureand Consumer Services (the Commissioner) to establish the VirginiaAgriculture Food Assistance Program (VAFA Program) for Virginia farmersand food producers to donate, sell, or otherwise provide agricultureproducts to charitable food assistance organizations. The bill also creates the Virginia Agriculture Food Assistance Fund to disbursemoneys to such charitable food assistance organizations to reimbursefarmers or food producers for any costs associated with harvesting,processing, packaging, or transporting agriculture products donatedto such charitable food assistance organizations. The bill authorizesthe Commissioner to adopt guidelines and regulations to carry outthe VAFA Program. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2021 | HB 2203 | Virginia HB 2203 (2021) |
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Virginia HB 2203 (2021) — Virginia Agriculture Food Assistance Program and Fund; established and created.
Virginia Agriculture Food Assistance Programand Fund; established. Requires the Commissioner of Agricultureand Consumer Services (the Commissioner) to establish the VirginiaAgriculture Food Assistance Program (VAFA Program) for Virginia farmersand food producers to donate, sell, or otherwise provide agricultureproducts to charitable food assistance organizations. The bill also creates the Virginia Agriculture Food Assistance Fund to disbursemoneys to such charitable food assistance organizations to reimbursefarmers or food producers for any costs associated with harvesting,processing, packaging, or transporting agriculture products donatedto such charitable food assistance organizations. The bill authorizesthe Commissioner to adopt guidelines and regulations to carry outthe VAFA Program.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0332 (committee substitute) — source
- HB2203ER (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102121D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (95-Y 4-N) — 94–4 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (97-Y 3-N) — 96–3 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 1-N) — 21–1 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Eileen Filler-Corn — primary (person)
- Alex Q. Askew — cosponsor (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Angelia Williams Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Candi Mundon King — cosponsor (person)
- Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
- Clinton L. Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
- David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Bulova — cosponsor (person)
- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
- Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
- Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
- Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
- Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)
- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
- Martha M. Mugler — cosponsor (person)
- Nancy D. Guy — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
- Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
- Roslyn C. Tyler — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
- Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)
- Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)
- Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)
- Wendy W. Gooditis — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-01-13 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102121D
introduction - 2021-01-13 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
referral-committee - 2021-01-15 Assigned ACNR sub: Agriculture
referral-committee - 2021-01-18 Impact statement from DPB (HB2203)
- 2021-01-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 2021-01-20 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 2021-01-20 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 1-N)
committee-passage - 2021-01-20 Referred to Committee on Appropriations
referral-committee - 2021-01-20 Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources
referral-committee - 2021-01-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
- 2021-01-25 Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2021-01-26 Read first time
reading-1 - 2021-01-27 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2021-01-28 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 3-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2021-01-28 VOTE: Passage (97-Y 3-N)
- 2021-01-29 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2021-01-29 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
referral-committee - 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N)
- 2021-02-16 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (13-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2021-02-16 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
referral-committee - 2021-02-22 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2021-02-22 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (14-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2021-02-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 2021-02-25 Read third time
reading-3 - 2021-02-25 Passed by temporarily
- 2021-02-25 Reading of amendment waived
- 2021-02-25 Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee amendment rejected
- 2021-02-25 Reading of amendment waived
- 2021-02-25 Finance and Appropriations Committee amendment agreed to
- 2021-02-25 Amendment by Senator Locke withdrawn
amendment-withdrawal - 2021-02-25 Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 2021-02-25 Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N)
passage - 2021-02-25 Placed on Calendar
- 2021-02-25 Senate amendment agreed to by House (95-Y 4-N)
- 2021-02-25 VOTE: Adoption (95-Y 4-N)
- 2021-03-09 Enrolled
- 2021-03-09 Signed by President
- 2021-03-11 Signed by Speaker
- 2021-03-15 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 15, 2021
- 2021-03-15 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- 2021-03-17 Impact statement from DPB (HB2203ER)
- 2021-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 332 (effective 7/1/21)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/01d531c3-d2ef-46bc-84fd-dc38ec862b71. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).