VirginiaHunger-Free Campus Grant Program; establishment of student meal plan credit donation program.
What it does
Institutions of higher education; Hunger-Free Campus Food Pantry Grant Program; establishment of student meal plan credit donation program. Renames the Hunger-Free Campus Food Pantry Grant Program, established pursuant to applicable law, as "the Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program" and amends the Program by expanding the criteria that a public institution of higher education or eligible private institution of higher education must satisfy to receive a designation as a "Hunger-Free Campus" and be awarded a grant under the Program to include a requirement that any such institution to establish both (i) an on-campus food pantry, pursuant to current law, and (ii) if such institution offers a meal swipe program or equivalent student meal swipe plan, a student meal credit sharing program, whereby students may voluntarily donate unused meal plan credits to be distributed for use by other students at campus dining halls or at its on-campus food pantry or to otherwise support its on-campus food pantry. The bill also requires grants awarded pursuant to the Program to be used to support on-campus efforts and initiatives to eliminate student food insecurity at such institution through the maintenance and operation of both its food pantry, pursuant to current law, and its student meal credit sharing program established in accordance with the bill.
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- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To Governor
- Became Law
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No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Mar 9Continued to next session in Appropriations (Voice Vote)Latest
- Mar 4Reported from Education and referred to Appropriations (18-Y 3-N)Minor
- Vote recorded Reported from Education. Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 2Subcommittee recommends reporting and referring to Appropriations (9-Y 1-N)
- Vote recorded Subcommittee recommends reporting. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 26Assigned HED sub: Higher EducationMinor
- Feb 11Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB97)
- Feb 3Referred to Committee on EducationMinor
- Feb 3Read first timeMinor
- Feb 3Placed on Calendar
- Jan 27Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N 0-A)Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Passage R. Result: pass.Upper
- Jan 26Engrossed by Senate - committee substituteMajor
- Jan 26Committee substitute agreed toMajor
- Jan 26Engrossed by Senate Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- Jan 26Education and Health Substitute agreed to
- Jan 26Read second timeMinor
- Jan 23Passed by for the day
- Vote recorded Constitutional reading dispensed R. Result: pass.Upper
- Jan 23Committee substitute printed 26105701D-S1Major
- Jan 23Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- Jan 23Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
- Jan 23Rules suspended
- Jan 22Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 0-N)Minor
- Vote recorded Reported from Education and Health with substitute. Result: pass.Upper
- Jan 22Senate committee offered
- Jan 19Senate subcommittee offered
- Jan 19Assigned Education sub: Higher EducationMinor
- 2025
- Dec 31Referred to Committee on Education and HealthMinor
- Dec 31Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100751DIntroduced