HJ 447: Statewide food desert mapping tool; Virginia Commission to End Hunger to establish, report.

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 6

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

1. March 12, 2025Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ447ER)
2. February 18, 2025Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
3. February 18, 2025Read third time
4. February 17, 2025Passed by for the day
5. February 17, 2025Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
6. February 17, 2025Rules suspended
7. February 14, 2025Reported from Rules (Voice Vote)
8. February 4, 2025Referred to Committee on Rules
9. February 4, 2025Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
10. February 3, 2025Agreed to by House (64-Y 31-N)
11. February 3, 2025Engrossed by House
12. February 3, 2025Taken up

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