republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-1910.md

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Bill	Public elementary and secondary schools; nutritional standards for school meals and other foods.	Public elementary and secondary schools; nutritional standards for school meals and other foods; nutrition requirements; certain color additives prohibited. Prohibits any public elementary or secondary school from offering or making available to any student any food served as a part of a school meal or any competitive food, as defined in applicable law, that contains any of the seven color additives listed in the bill. The bill directs the Board of Education to amend its nutritional guidelines for competitive foods promulgated pursuant to relevant law in accordance with the provisions of the bill. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2027, and is identical to SB 1289.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1910	Virginia HB 1910 (2025)	bill		enacted	Hillary Pugh Kent	7	34	8	2025-01-06	2025-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/b102a236-6c7b-45d4-a6b6-19a4cdfbe2a5	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1910	53478cadcbf14ca08d53f7abd5a0be68e005a2e9e040590312a3257f3a1d1a37	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1910 (2025) — Public elementary and secondary schools; nutritional standards for school meals and other foods.

Public elementary and secondary schools; nutritional standards for school meals and other foods; nutrition requirements; certain color additives prohibited. Prohibits any public elementary or secondary school from offering or making available to any student any food served as a part of a school meal or any competitive food, as defined in applicable law, that contains any of the seven color additives listed in the bill. The bill directs the Board of Education to amend its nutritional guidelines for competitive foods promulgated pursuant to relevant law in accordance with the provisions of the bill. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2027, and is identical to SB 1289.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Education Amendment (committee substitute) — source
4. Education and Health Amendment (committee substitute) — source
5. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Amendment (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate Amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hillary Pugh Kent — primary (person)
• A.C. Cordoza — cosponsor (person)
• Anne Ferrell Tata — cosponsor (person)
• Bill Wiley — cosponsor (person)
• Carrie E. Coyner — cosponsor (person)
• Chris Obenshain — cosponsor (person)
• David Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Delores Oates — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• Eric R. Zehr — cosponsor (person)
• Geary Higgins — cosponsor (person)
• Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
• James W. Morefield — cosponsor (person)
• Jason S. Ballard — cosponsor (person)
• Jonathan "Jed" Arnold — cosponsor (person)
• Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
• Kim A. Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Mark L. Earley, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Mike A. Cherry — cosponsor (person)
• N. Baxter Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Nicholas J. Freitas — cosponsor (person)
• Paul V. Milde — cosponsor (person)
• Phillip A. Scott — cosponsor (person)
• Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
• Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
• Scott A. Wyatt — cosponsor (person)
• Terry G. Kilgore — cosponsor (person)
• Terry L. Austin — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy P. Griffin — cosponsor (person)
• Tony O. Wilt — cosponsor (person)
• W. Chad Green — cosponsor (person)
• Wendell S. Walker — cosponsor (person)
• Will Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Wren M. Williams — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101008D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-06 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2025-01-13 Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2025-01-14 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1910)
• 2025-01-14 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-15 Reported from Education with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-17 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-20 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-20 Education Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-01-20 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2025-01-20 Printed as engrossed 25101008D-E
• 2025-01-21 Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-01-22 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-01-22 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2025-02-06 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2025-02-13 Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-17 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)
• 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 Education and Health 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 (HB1910ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1910)
• 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
• 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 212 (Effective 07/01/27) executive-signature
• 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0212)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b102a236-6c7b-45d4-a6b6-19a4cdfbe2a5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).