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type: "Bill"
title: "Public elementary and secondary school students; ability to pay for meals and school meal debt."
description: "Public elementary and secondary school students;ability to pay for meals and school meal debt; extracurricular schoolactivities. Requires each school board to adopt policies thatprohibit the school board or any school board employee from denyinga student the opportunity to participate in any extracurricular schoolactivity because the student cannot pay for a meal at school or owesa school meal debt."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 583"
citation: "Virginia HB 583 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Danica A. Roem"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c7ecd59-a089-4742-a59d-0a835c85aa47"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB583"
source_hash: "b67d868b7974350ed566bc61461fba134b79a8c24d54fe0efa3d874b6fe0dfc8"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 583 (2022) — Public elementary and secondary school students; ability to pay for meals and school meal debt.
Public elementary and secondary school students;ability to pay for meals and school meal debt; extracurricular schoolactivities. Requires each school board to adopt policies thatprohibit the school board or any school board employee from denyinga student the opportunity to participate in any extracurricular schoolactivity because the student cannot pay for a meal at school or owesa school meal debt.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0686** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0686)
2. **HB583ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB583ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101050D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB583)
## Votes
- VOTE: Passage (75-Y 25-N) — **7524** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education (17-Y 5-N) — **175** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Danica A. Roem — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101050D `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** Impact statement from DPB (HB583)
- **2022-01-24** Assigned Education sub: K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-25** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2022-01-31** Reported from Education (17-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-03** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-04** Read third time and passed House (75-Y 25-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-04** VOTE: Passage (75-Y 25-N)
- **2022-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-07** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-16** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-04** Passed by for the day
- **2022-03-07** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-08** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-10** Enrolled
- **2022-03-10** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-11** Impact statement from DPB (HB583ER)
- **2022-03-11** Signed by President
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 686 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7c7ecd59-a089-4742-a59d-0a835c85aa47`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).