Bill > HB2203

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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.

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

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

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