Bill Text: VA HB50 | 2018 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: School meal policies; each local school board required to adopt policies.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5)

Status: (Passed) 2018-03-19 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0384) [HB50 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2018-HB50-Chaptered.html

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CHAPTER 384 An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-79.7, relating to local school boards; school meal policies. [H 50] Approved March 19, 2018

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 22.1-79.7 as follows:

§22.1-79.7. School meal policies.

Each local school board shall adopt policies that:

1. Prohibit school board employees from requiring a student who cannot pay for a meal at school or who owes a school meal debt to do chores or other work to pay for such meals or wear a wristband or hand stamp; and

2. Require school board employees to direct any communication relating to a school meal debt to the student's parent. Such policy may permit such communication to be made by a letter addressed to the parent to be sent home with the student.