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2021 SPECIAL SESSION I
HB 2203 Virginia Agriculture Food Assistance Program and Fund; established and created.
Introduced by: Eileen Filler-Corn | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
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. This bill is identical to SB 1188.
FULL TEXT
- 01/13/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102121D pdf | impact statement
- 03/09/21 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2203ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/24/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0332) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate amendments
- Senate amendments engrossed
- Senate amendments not adopted
HISTORY
- 01/13/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102121D
- 01/13/21 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 01/15/21 House: Assigned ACNR sub: Agriculture
- 01/20/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/20/21 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/20/21 House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 1-N)
- 01/20/21 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/20/21 House: Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources
- 01/22/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
- 01/25/21 House: Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N)
- 01/26/21 House: Read first time
- 01/27/21 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/28/21 House: Read third time and passed House (97-Y 3-N)
- 01/28/21 House: VOTE: Passage (97-Y 3-N)
- 01/29/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/29/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/05/21 Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/21 Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (13-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/21 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/22/21 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/21 Senate: Read third time
- 02/25/21 Senate: Passed by temporarily
- 02/25/21 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/25/21 Senate: Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee amendment rejected
- 02/25/21 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/25/21 Senate: Finance and Appropriations Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/25/21 Senate: Amendment by Senator Locke withdrawn
- 02/25/21 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/25/21 Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/21 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/25/21 House: Senate amendment agreed to by House (95-Y 4-N)
- 02/25/21 House: VOTE: Adoption (95-Y 4-N)
- 03/09/21 House: Enrolled
- 03/09/21 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2203ER)
- 03/09/21 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/21 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/15/21 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 15, 2021
- 03/15/21 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- 03/24/21 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 332 (effective 7/1/21)
- 03/24/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0332)