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SB 42 VA
Passed One Chamber

School boards; payment of school meal debt.

VA · session 2027 · Senate · bill

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Introduced Nov 22, 2025

Latest action (Jul 21, 2026) Continued from last session

Summary

Virginia Senate Bill 42 would require the Department of Education to evaluate the impact of requiring school boards to pay for unpaid school meal debts. The bill would require the Department of Education to assess the financial and operational impact of a policy requiring school boards to absorb unpaid student meal costs and to report on findings.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill (from the OpenStates abstract — no full text available yet) — neutral, and may be imperfect.

Official abstract

A BILL to require the Department of Education to evaluate the impact of requiring each school board to pay for the total unpaid school meal balance resulting from uncollectible school meal debts on any student account at the end of the school year; report.

Sponsor (1)

Action history (24)
  1. Nov 22, 2025 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100754D · upper
  2. Nov 22, 2025 Referred to Committee on Education and Health · upper
  3. Jan 15, 2026 Assigned Education sub: Public Education · upper
  4. Jan 22, 2026 Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N) · upper
  5. Jan 29, 2026 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB42) · upper
  6. Feb 3, 2026 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) · upper
  7. Feb 3, 2026 Committee substitute printed 26106624D-S1 · upper
  8. Feb 4, 2026 Rules suspended · upper
  9. Feb 4, 2026 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A) · upper
  10. Feb 4, 2026 Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote) · upper
  11. Feb 5, 2026 Read second time · upper
  12. Feb 5, 2026 Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to · upper
  13. Feb 5, 2026 Engrossed by Senate committee substitute (Voice Vote) · upper
  14. Feb 6, 2026 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A) · upper
  15. Feb 11, 2026 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB42) · upper
  16. Feb 12, 2026 Placed on Calendar · lower
  17. Feb 12, 2026 Read first time · lower
  18. Feb 12, 2026 Referred to Committee on Education · lower
  19. Feb 24, 2026 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 2-N) · lower
  20. Feb 25, 2026 Reported from Education and referred to Rules (16-Y 6-N) · lower
  21. Mar 1, 2026 Assigned HRUL sub: Studies Subcommittee · lower
  22. Mar 2, 2026 Subcommittee recommends continuing to (Voice Vote) · lower
  23. Mar 6, 2026 Continued to next session in Rules (Voice Vote) · lower
  24. Jul 21, 2026 Continued from last session · lower

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