Virginia House Bill 2203 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 37-0)
Status: Passed on March 24 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-03-24 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0332)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [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, which must prohibit grant recipients from attributing more than 10 percent of the grant amount to administrative costs.

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]

2021-02-25 - House - House: VOTE: Adoption (95-Y 4-N) (Y: 95 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2021-02-25 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-02-24 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-02-22 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-02-16 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
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
2021-03-24		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0332)
2021-03-24		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 332 (effective 7/1/21)
2021-03-15		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
2021-03-15	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 15, 2021
2021-03-11	House	Signed by Speaker
2021-03-09	Senate	Signed by President
2021-03-09	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2203ER)
2021-03-09	House	Enrolled
2021-02-25	House	VOTE: Adoption (95-Y 4-N)
2021-02-25	House	Senate amendment agreed to by House (95-Y 4-N)
2021-02-25	House	Placed on Calendar
2021-02-25	Senate	Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N)
2021-02-25	Senate	Engrossed by Senate as amended
2021-02-25	Senate	Amendment by Senator Locke withdrawn
2021-02-25	Senate	Finance and Appropriations Committee amendment agreed to
2021-02-25	Senate	Reading of amendment waived
2021-02-25	Senate	Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee amendment rejected
2021-02-25	Senate	Reading of amendment waived
2021-02-25	Senate	Passed by temporarily
2021-02-25	Senate	Read third time
2021-02-24	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2021-02-22	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (14-Y 0-N)
2021-02-16	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2021-02-16	Senate	Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (13-Y 0-N)
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)
SB1188 (Same As) 2021-03-24 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0333)
SB1188 (Same As) 2021-03-24 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0333)

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?212+sum+HB2203
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2203+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2203ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0332+hil
Amendment	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+amd+HB2203AS
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/21200353A.pdf
Amendment	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+amd+HB2203ASE
Amendment	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+amd+HB2203ASR
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+oth+HB2203F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+oth+HB2203FER122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+H0101C0004+HB2203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+H01C0042+HB2203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+H0201C0004+HB2203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+H02C0023+HB2203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+HC1234+HB2203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+S01C0078+HB2203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+S01V0022+HB2203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+S05V0089+HB2203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+SV0397HB2203+HB2203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+SV0475HB2203+HB2203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+HV1986+HB2203