Bill > HB96

Introduced Session

School breakfast; availability at no cost to students. Requires each school board to require each public elementary and secondary school in the local school division to participate in the federal National School Lunch Program and the federal School Breakfast Program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and to make breakfast available to any student who requests such a meal at no cost to the student, unless the student's parent has provided written permission to the school board to withhold such a meal from the student. The bill clarifies that the provision of a breakfast by a school to a student at no cost to the student shall not be construed as creating a disincentive for the school or local school division to participate in the federal Community Eligibility Provision program. Additionally, the bill provides that schools shall maximize the number of students who participate in the school breakfast program by implementing one or more suggested service models to increase access to such program. The bill requires the Department of Education to reimburse each public elementary and secondary school for each eligible school breakfast served to a student, with a maximum of one reimbursable breakfast per student per school day, and provides the formula for determining the state reimbursement rate for such meals. Finally, the bill repeals a provision of law relating to the federal School Breakfast Program that is rendered obsolete by the provisions of the bill. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Commission to End Hunger. 

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Elizabeth Bennett-Parker (D)*,  Jessica Anderson (D),  Gretchen Bulova (D),  Katrina Callsen (D),  Kacey Carnegie (D),  Stacey Carroll (D),  Nadarius Clark (D),  Laura Jane Cohen (D),  Kelly Convirs-Fowler (D),  Rae Cousins (D),  Mark Downey (D),  Michael Feggans (D),  Lily Franklin (D),  Margaret Franklin (D),  Debra Gardner (D),  Jackie Glass (D),  J.R. Henson (D),  Karen Keys-Gamarra (D),  Amy Laufer (D),  Destiny LeVere Bolling (D),  Michelle Lopes-Maldonado (D),  Fernando Martinez (D),  Adele McClure (D),  Garrett McGuire (D),  Leslie Chambers Mehta (D),  May Nivar (D),  Marcia Price (D),  Atoosa Reaser (D),  Irene Shin (D),  Shelly Simonds (D),  Richard Sullivan (D),  Josh Thomas (D),  Virgil Thornton (D),  Kathy Tran (D),  Vivian Watts (D), 

Continued to next session in Appropriations (Voice Vote) (on 02/06/2026)

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