HJ 447

  • Virginia House Bill
  • 2025 Regular Session
  • Introduced in House Jan 07, 2025
  • Passed House Mar 12, 2025
  • Passed Senate Feb 18, 2025
  • Governor

Statewide food desert mapping tool; Virginia Commission to End Hunger to establish, report.

Abstract

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 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.

Directing the Virginia Commission to End Hunger to establish a statewide food desert mapping tool. Report.

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Mar 12, 2025

House

Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ447ER)

Feb 18, 2025

Senate

Agreed to by Senate by voice vote

Senate

Read third time

Feb 17, 2025

Senate

Rules suspended

Senate

Passed by for the day

Senate

Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)

Feb 14, 2025

Senate

Reported from Rules (Voice Vote)

Feb 04, 2025

Senate

Referred to Committee on Rules

Senate

Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)

Feb 03, 2025

House

Agreed to by House (64-Y 31-N)

House

Engrossed by House

House

Taken up

Jan 29, 2025

House

Reported from Rules (11-Y 2-N)

Jan 07, 2025

House

Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103345D

House

Referred to Committee on Rules

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