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type: "Bill"
title: "School boards; availability of school meals to students, effective date."
description: "School boards; school meals; availability to students. Requires each school board to require each public elementary and secondary school in the local school division to participate in the federal National School Lunch Program and the federal School Breakfast Program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and to make meals available pursuant to such programs to any student who requests such a meal, regardless of whether such student has the money to pay for the meal or owes money for meals previously provided, unless the student's parent has provided written permission to the school board to withhold such a meal from the student. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2021."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1426"
citation: "Virginia HB 1426 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Danica A. Roem"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 42
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9fc66738-b979-4add-b40e-2bb2ba8b912c"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1426"
source_hash: "8ee4e63dd09dfc7e41c876077c245bc8244d4b3022a1f2d68ef59e807fbf75e1"
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 1426 (2020) — School boards; availability of school meals to students, effective date.
School boards; school meals; availability to students. Requires each school board to require each public elementary and secondary school in the local school division to participate in the federal National School Lunch Program and the federal School Breakfast Program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and to make meals available pursuant to such programs to any student who requests such a meal, regardless of whether such student has the money to pay for the meal or owes money for meals previously provided, unless the student's parent has provided written permission to the school board to withhold such a meal from the student. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2021.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0683)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0683)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1426ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1426ER)
3. **Engrossed by House as amended HB1426E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1426E)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (HB1426)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1426)
## Votes
- Reported from Education (17-Y 5-N) — **175** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **370** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (7-Y 0-N) — **70** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations with amendment (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (79-Y 19-N) — **7819** (pass) · lower
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N) — **53** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with amendments (13-Y 2-N) — **132** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (79-Y 17-N) — **7817** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with amendments (38-Y 2-N) — **382** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with amendments (38-Y 2-N) — **382** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Danica A. Roem — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
- Clinton L. Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
- Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
- Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102508D `introduction`
- **2020-01-08** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-13** Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-29** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N)
- **2020-01-29** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- **2020-01-31** Impact statement from DPB (HB1426)
- **2020-02-03** Reported from Education (17-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-03** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-03** Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-05** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-02-05** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (7-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-05** Reported from Appropriations with amendment (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-06** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-07** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-07** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2020-02-07** Engrossed by House as amended HB1426E
- **2020-02-07** Printed as engrossed 20102508D-E
- **2020-02-10** Read third time and passed House (79-Y 19-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-10** VOTE: Passage (79-Y 19-N)
- **2020-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-11** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** Impact statement from DPB (HB1426E)
- **2020-02-27** Reported from Education and Health with amendments (13-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-28** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-02** Reading of amendments waived
- **2020-03-02** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2020-03-02** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2020-03-02** Passed Senate with amendments (38-Y 2-N) `passage`
- **2020-03-02** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-02** Passed Senate with amendments (38-Y 2-N) `passage`
- **2020-03-03** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-03-03** Senate amendments agreed to by House (79-Y 17-N)
- **2020-03-03** VOTE: Adoption (79-Y 17-N)
- **2020-03-06** Enrolled
- **2020-03-06** Impact statement from DPB (HB1426ER)
- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-06** Signed by President
- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 683 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9fc66738-b979-4add-b40e-2bb2ba8b912c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).