republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-1723.md

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Bill	Assistance w/food access, etc.; methods to improve participation in fed. public assistance programs.	Department of Social Services; improving access to and maximizing participation in federal food assistance programs; work group; report. Requires the Department of Social Services to convene a work group to evaluate methods to improve access to and maximize participation in federal public assistance programs relating to assistance with food access and improving food security. The Department shall report the work group's findings and recommendations to the Chairs of the House Committees on Health and Human Services and Appropriations and the Senate Committees on Education and Health and Finance and Appropriations by December 1, 2025.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1723	Virginia HB 1723 (2025)	bill		enacted	Marcia S. "Cia" Price	6	39	9	2025-01-04	2025-05-02	openstates	ocd-bill/39483f4c-2bbc-4362-87c7-a060a57b2125	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1723	3298402442ce6f94e226f12e64ec925e4458ab3db3cff79d7b756c9a77dd8efc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1723 (2025) — Assistance w/food access, etc.; methods to improve participation in fed. public assistance programs.

Department of Social Services; improving access to and maximizing participation in federal food assistance programs; work group; report. Requires the Department of Social Services to convene a work group to evaluate methods to improve access to and maximize participation in federal public assistance programs relating to assistance with food access and improving food security. The Department shall report the work group's findings and recommendations to the Chairs of the House Committees on Health and Human Services and Appropriations and the Senate Committees on Education and Health and Finance and Appropriations by December 1, 2025.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. Governor Substitute Not Adopted (committee substitute) — source
5. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
6. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (80-Y 16-N) — 80–16 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Health and Human Services and rereferred to Appropriations (20-Y 2-N) — 20–2 (pass) · lower
• House rejected Governor's recommendation (31-Y 63-N) — 31–63 (fail) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting and rereferred to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — primary (person)
• Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
• Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
• Luke E. Torian — cosponsor (person)
• Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)
• Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
• Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-04 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102684D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-04 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2025-01-13 Assigned sub: Social Services referral-committee
• 2025-01-16 Subcommittee recommends reporting and referred to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1723)
• 2025-01-21 Reported from Health and Human Services and referred to Appropriations (20-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-21 Assigned Approps sub: Health & Human Resources referral-committee
• 2025-01-24 Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-31 Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-31 Committee substitute printed 25106563D-H1 substitution
• 2025-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Appropriations Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (80-Y 16-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2025-02-06 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1723)
• 2025-02-07 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-10 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-10 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-11 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-12 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-12 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-17 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-17 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1723ER) passage
• 2025-02-17 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1723)
• 2025-02-17 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-20 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-24 Governor's recommendation received by House executive-veto-line-item
• 2025-03-24 Governor's substitute printed (HB1723H2)
• 2025-04-02 House rejected Governor's recommendation (31-Y 63-N) veto-override-passage
• 2025-04-02 Communicated to Governor
• 2025-04-02 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 2, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-05-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 691 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-05-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0691)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/39483f4c-2bbc-4362-87c7-a060a57b2125. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).