VirginiaSchool boards; payment of school meal debt.
What it does
Department of Education; impact of requiring each school board to pay unpaid meal balance from uncollectible school meal debts; report. Directs the Department of Education to evaluate and submit to the chairs of the Senate Committees on Finance and Appropriations and Education and Health and the House Committees on Appropriations and Education by November 1, 2026, a report on the impact of requiring each school board, at the end of each school year, to pay for the total unpaid school meal balance on the nonprofit food service account of each public elementary or secondary school in the school division resulting from uncollectible school meal debts on any student account.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Mar 6Continued to next session in Rules (Voice Vote)Latest
- Mar 2Subcommittee recommends continuing to (Voice Vote)
- Mar 1Assigned HRUL sub: Studies SubcommitteeMinor
- Feb 25Reported from Education and referred to Rules (16-Y 6-N)Minor
- Vote recorded Reported from Education. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 24Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 2-N)
- Vote recorded Subcommittee recommends reporting. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 12Referred to Committee on EducationMinor
- Feb 12Read first timeMinor
- Feb 12Placed on Calendar
- Feb 11Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB42)
- Feb 6Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A)Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Passage R. Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 5Engrossed by Senate committee substitute (Voice Vote)Major
- Feb 5Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
- Feb 5Read second timeMinor
- Feb 4Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- Vote recorded Constitutional reading dispensed R. Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 4Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- Feb 4Rules suspended
- Feb 3Committee substitute printed 26106624D-S1Major
- Vote recorded Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute. Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 3Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N)Minor
- Jan 29Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB42)
- Jan 22Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N)Minor
- Vote recorded Reported from Education and Health. Result: pass.Upper
- Jan 15Assigned Education sub: Public EducationMinor
- 2025
- Nov 22Referred to Committee on Education and HealthMinor
- Nov 22Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100754DIntroduced