HJ447
Statewide food desert mapping tool; Virginia Commission to End Hunger to establish, report.
Summary
As Introduced. Virginia Commission to End Hunger; statewide food desert mapping tool; report.
Directs the Virginia Commission to End Hunger to establish a statewide food desert mapping tool, using geographic, socioeconomic, and demographic data to identify food deserts and food apartheid zones in the Commonwealth in order to create a comprehensive and actionable statewide food desert mapping tool. The Commission is directed to ... (More) collaborate with the Departments of Health, Agriculture and Consumer Services, and Social Services, in addition to universities and nonprofit organizations with relevant experience and expertise, to build the mapping tool. Technical assistance in building the mapping tool shall be provided to the Commission by the Division of Legislative Automated Systems. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/07/2025 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103345D
- 01/07/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 01/28/2025 - House: Placed on Rules Agenda
- 01/29/2025 - House: Reported from Rules (11-Y 2-N)
- 01/30/2025 - House: Placed on House Calendar for Jan 31, 2025
- 02/03/2025 - House: Taken up
- 02/03/2025 - House: Engrossed by House
- 02/03/2025 - House: Agreed to by House (64-Y 31-N)
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Reported from Rules (Voice Vote)
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
- 03/12/2025 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ447ER)
