VirginiaStatewide food desert mapping tool; Virginia Commission to End Hunger to establish, report.
What it does
Virginia Commission to End Hunger; statewide food desert mapping tool; report. Directs the Virginia Commission to End Hunger to establish a statewide food desert mapping tool, using geographic, socioeconomic, and demographic data to identify food deserts and food apartheid zones in the Commonwealth in order to create a comprehensive and actionable statewide food desert mapping tool. The Commission is directed to collaborate with the Departments of Health, Agriculture and Consumer Services, and Social Services, in addition to universities and nonprofit organizations with relevant experience and expertise, to build the mapping tool.
More detail
Technical assistance in building the mapping tool shall be provided to the Commission by the Division of Legislative Automated Systems.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed 1st Chamber
- Passed 2nd Chamber
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- Mar 12Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ447ER)Passed 2nd Chamber
- Feb 18Agreed to by Senate by voice votePassed 1st Chamber
- Feb 18Read third timeMinor
- Feb 17Passed by for the day
- Vote recorded Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N). Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 17Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- Feb 17Rules suspended
- Feb 14Reported from Rules (Voice Vote)Minor
- Feb 4Referred to Committee on RulesMinor
- Feb 4Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- Feb 3Agreed to by House (64-Y 31-N)
- Vote recorded Agreed to by House (64-Y 31-N). Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 3Engrossed by House
- Feb 3Taken up
- Jan 29Reported from Rules (11-Y 2-N)Minor
- Vote recorded Reported from Rules (11-Y 2-N). Result: pass.Lower
- Jan 7Referred to Committee on RulesMinor
- Jan 7Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103345DIntroduced