Virginia House Bill 2203 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 37-0)
Status: Engrossed on January 27 2021 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2021-02-05 - Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Virginia Agriculture Food Assistance Program and Fund; established. Requires the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services (the Commissioner) to establish the Virginia Agriculture Food Assistance Program (VAFA Program) for Virginia farmers and food producers to donate, sell, or otherwise provide agriculture products to charitable food assistance organizations. The bill also creates the Virginia Agriculture Food Assistance Fund to disburse moneys to such charitable food assistance organizations to reimburse farmers or food producers for any costs associated with harvesting, processing, packaging, or transporting agriculture products donated to such charitable food assistance organizations. The bill authorizes the Commissioner to adopt guidelines and regulations to carry out the VAFA Program.

Virginia Agriculture Food Assistance Program and Fund; established and created.

Del. Eileen Filler-Corn [D]	Del. Wendy Gooditis [D]	Del. Delores McQuinn [D]	Del. Roslyn Tyler [D]
Del. Rodney Willett [D]	Del. Dawn Adams [D]	Del. Alex Askew [D]	Del. Hala Ayala [D]
Sen. Lamont Bagby [D]	Del. David Bulova [D]	Del. Betsy Carr [D]	Del. Joshua Cole [D]
Del. Nancy Guy [D]	Del. Elizabeth Guzman [D]	Del. C.E. Hayes [D]	Del. Dan Helmer [D]
Del. Patrick Hope [D]	Del. Chris Hurst [D]	Del. Clinton Jenkins [D]	Del. Mark Keam [D]
Del. Mark Levine [D]	Del. Alfonso Lopez [D]	Del. Martha Mugler [D]	Del. Candi Mundon King [D]
Del. Kathleen Murphy [D]	Del. Kenneth Plum [D]	Del. Sam Rasoul [D]	Del. David Reid [D]
Del. Ibraheem Samirah [D]	Del. Mark Sickles [D]	Del. Marcus Simon [D]	Del. Shelly Simonds [D]
Sen. Suhas Subramanyam [D]	Del. Richard Sullivan [D]	Del. Kathy Tran [D]	Del. Vivian Watts [D]
Sen. Angelia Williams Graves [D]

2021-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-01-28 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (97-Y 3-N) (Y: 97 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-01-25 - House - House: Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2021-01-22 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) (Y: 6 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2021-01-20 - House - House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 1-N) (Y: 21 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-01-20 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-05	Senate	Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N)
2021-01-29	Senate	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
2021-01-29	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2021-01-28	House	VOTE: Passage (97-Y 3-N)
2021-01-28	House	Read third time and passed House (97-Y 3-N)
2021-01-27	House	Read second time and engrossed
2021-01-26	House	Read first time
2021-01-25	House	Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N)
2021-01-22	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
2021-01-20	House	Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources
2021-01-20	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2021-01-20	House	Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 1-N)
2021-01-20	House	Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
2021-01-20	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
2021-01-15	House	Assigned ACNR sub: Agriculture
2021-01-13	House	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2021-01-13	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102121D

HB2203 (Carry Over) 2021-02-05 - Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
3	2	4780	(n/a)	See Bill Text
3	2	4783	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+sum+HB2203
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+HB2203+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+HB2203F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+H0101V0004+HB2203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+H01V0042+HB2203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+H0201V0004+HB2203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+H02V0023+HB2203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+HV1234+HB2203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+S01V0078+HB2203