republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020speciali/hb-5113.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "School boards, certain; student meals, participation in the Community Eligibility Provision."
description: "Certain school boards; student meals; participation in the Community Eligibility Provision. Requires each school board that governs a local school division that contains any public elementary or secondary school that is eligible to participate in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to apply to FNS to participate in CEP for each such school. The bill provides that the Superintendent for Public Instruction shall issue a waiver to this requirement upon determination that participation in CEP is not financially viable for a school or group of schools. The Department of Education shall develop a process and criteria for evaluating such waiver requests."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020specialI"
identifier: "HB 5113"
citation: "Virginia HB 5113 (2020specialI)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2020-08-21"
last_action: "2020-10-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25994cf1-4034-4efd-a355-cc77b0d16968"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+HB5113"
source_hash: "dd3d7d0ae290ffe501d4d75ae8da2a8c7ae86ae6e679373b2d7789da0dc8b0b0"
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 5113 (2020specialI) — School boards, certain; student meals, participation in the Community Eligibility Provision.

Certain school boards; student meals; participation in the Community Eligibility Provision. Requires each school board that governs a local school division that contains any public elementary or secondary school that is eligible to participate in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to apply to FNS to participate in CEP for each such school. The bill provides that the Superintendent for Public Instruction shall issue a waiver to this requirement upon determination that participation in CEP is not financially viable for a school or group of schools. The Department of Education shall develop a process and criteria for evaluating such waiver requests.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0002)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+CHAP0002)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5113ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5113ER)
3. **Engrossed by House as amended HB5113E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5113E)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (HB5113)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5113)

## Votes

- Passed Senate (35-Y 0-N) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: (96-Y 0-N) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations with amendments (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower

## Timeline

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

- **2020-08-21** Presented and ordered printed 20200612D `introduction`
- **2020-08-21** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-24** Impact statement from DPB (HB5113)
- **2020-08-31** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-08-31** Reported from Appropriations with amendments (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-09-02** Impact statement from DHCD/CLG (HB5113)
- **2020-09-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-09-03** Passed by for the day
- **2020-09-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-09-04** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2020-09-04** Engrossed by House as amended HB5113E
- **2020-09-04** Printed as engrossed 20200612D-E
- **2020-09-08** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-09-08** VOTE: (96-Y 0-N)
- **2020-09-09** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-09-09** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2020-09-09** Impact statement from DPB (HB5113E)
- **2020-09-22** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-09-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
- **2020-09-25** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-09-25** Passed Senate (35-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-09-25** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N)
- **2020-09-25** Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-10-02** Enrolled
- **2020-10-02** Impact statement from DPB (HB5113ER)
- **2020-10-02** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-10-02** Signed by President
- **2020-10-07** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on October 7, 2020
- **2020-10-07** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 14, 2020
- **2020-10-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 2 ((effective 3/1/21) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/25994cf1-4034-4efd-a355-cc77b0d16968`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).