School meal debt; donations.
Summary
School meal debt; donations. Permits anyschool board to solicit and receive any donation or other funds forthe purpose of eliminating or offsetting any school meal debt atany time during the school year and requires each school board touse any such funds solely for such purpose, provided, however, thatno such funds are obtained in an illegal or illicit manner. The billprovides that if a school board receives a donation that does notentirely eliminate or offset the total school meal debt at any timeduring the school year, the school board shall distribute the donation proportionately among each school meal debt.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Mar 2020
Signed into Law
Mar 2020
Introduced Jan 6, 2020
Signed Mar 31, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Mar 2, 2020 · House of Delegates Feb 7, 2020
How they voted
40–0
Passed
Total votes 40
Mar 2, 2020
D
Democratic21
100% Yea
R
Republican19
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
29
Key actions
3
Committee
8
Amendments
1
Mar 31, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 575 (effective 7/1/20)
Mar 2, 2020
Senate · Passed
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
Feb 27, 2020
Senate · Reported by committee
Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
Feb 18, 2020
Senate · Referred to committee
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
Feb 10, 2020
Senate · Referred to committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
Feb 7, 2020
House of Delegates · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
Feb 6, 2020
House of Delegates · Amendment offered
Engrossed by House as amended HB703E
Feb 6, 2020
House of Delegates · Reported by committee
Committee amendments agreed to
Feb 3, 2020
House of Delegates · Reported by committee
Reported from Education with amendments (22-Y 0-N)
Jan 29, 2020
House of Delegates · Reported by committee
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
Jan 13, 2020
House of Delegates · Referred to committee
Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12
Jan 6, 2020
House of Delegates · Referred to committee
Referred to Committee on Education
Jan 6, 2020
House of Delegates · Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104003D
1 primary · 5 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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