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Bill	Baby Food Protection Act; testing and labeling requirements for toxic heavy metals.	Baby Food Protection Act; testing and labeling requirements for toxic heavy metals. Prohibits a person from selling, distributing, or offering for sale a baby food product that contains certain toxic heavy metals that exceed the limits established by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The bill requires a manufacturer of a baby food product to meet certain testing requirements and include certain information related to toxic heavy metals on the manufacturer's website and on the baby food product. The bill requires a consumer to report a baby food product to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services if the consumer reasonably believes that the baby food is being sold in the Commonwealth with toxic heavy metals that exceed the limits established by the FDA. The foregoing provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2026. The bill also directs the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to convene a work group to study and make recommendations on the current enforcement of laws related to the presence of toxic heavy metals in baby food products and any further action needed to address the issue of toxic heavy metals in baby food products. The bill requires the work group to report on its findings and recommendations by the first day of the 2026 Regular Session.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1844	Virginia HB 1844 (2025)	bill		enacted	Michelle Lopes Maldonado	8	44	10	2025-01-06	2025-05-02	openstates	ocd-bill/65de6259-3eb3-4867-a981-552cdd6c48d3	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1844	ac3c54aa103ac94f32d71fcf05b2088461068b68bdb6e81a74f3bfa6ced8240e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1844 (2025) — Baby Food Protection Act; testing and labeling requirements for toxic heavy metals.

Baby Food Protection Act; testing and labeling requirements for toxic heavy metals. Prohibits a person from selling, distributing, or offering for sale a baby food product that contains certain toxic heavy metals that exceed the limits established by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The bill requires a manufacturer of a baby food product to meet certain testing requirements and include certain information related to toxic heavy metals on the manufacturer's website and on the baby food product. The bill requires a consumer to report a baby food product to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services if the consumer reasonably believes that the baby food is being sold in the Commonwealth with toxic heavy metals that exceed the limits established by the FDA. The foregoing provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2026. The bill also directs the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to convene a work group to study and make recommendations on the current enforcement of laws related to the presence of toxic heavy metals in baby food products and any further action needed to address the issue of toxic heavy metals in baby food products. The bill requires the work group to report on its findings and recommendations by the first day of the 2026 Regular Session.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Amendment (committee substitute) — source
3. Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Amendment (committee substitute) — source
4. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Amendment (committee substitute) — source
8. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Senate Amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendment(s) and rereferred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed by for the day — 47–46 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Michelle Lopes Maldonado — primary (person)
• Adele Y. McClure — cosponsor (person)
• Alex Q. Askew — cosponsor (person)
• Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Amy J. Laufer — cosponsor (person)
• Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
• Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
• Briana D. Sewell — cosponsor (person)
• C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Candi Mundon King — cosponsor (person)
• David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
• Debra D. Gardner — cosponsor (person)
• Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
• Holly M. Seibold — cosponsor (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• JJ Singh — cosponsor (person)
• Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
• Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua E. Thomas — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
• Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Callsen — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
• Laura Jane Cohen — cosponsor (person)
• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
• Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
• Michael J. Jones — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
• Phil M. Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
• Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
• Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
• Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101070D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101070D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-06 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2025-01-06 Introduced bill reprinted 25101070D
• 2025-01-21 Referred from General Laws and referred to Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (Voice Vote) referral-committee
• 2025-01-24 Assigned ACNR sub: Agriculture referral-committee
• 2025-01-29 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendment(s) and referred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-29 Assigned Approps sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2025-01-31 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-02-03 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2025-02-03 Printed as engrossed 25101070D-E
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2025-02-04 Passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-04 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1844)
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2025-02-11 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-14 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-17 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-17 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-18 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-18 Reading of amendment waived
• 2025-02-18 Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-02-18 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2025-02-18 Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-19 Senate Amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) amendment-passage
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1844ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1844)
• 2025-03-24 Governor's recommendation received by House executive-veto-line-item
• 2025-04-02 Passed by for the day (47-Y 46-N)
• 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 693 (Effective 01/01/26) executive-signature
• 2025-05-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/65de6259-3eb3-4867-a981-552cdd6c48d3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).