2025 SESSION

INTRODUCED

25101835D

SENATE BILL NO. 1020

Offered January 8, 2025

Prefiled January 7, 2025

A BILL to direct the Department of Social Services to report on the Restaurant Meals Program of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

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Patron—Roem

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Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That the Department of Social Services shall submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the implementation of the Restaurant Meals Program of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program no later than December 1, 2025. Such report shall include (i) the number of restaurants that have applied to participate in the program, (ii) the names and addresses of all restaurants that have been approved to participate, (iii) plans for expanding the number of restaurants participating in the program, (iv) identified barriers to program expansion and recommendations for alleviating such barriers, and (v) any other data determined to be relevant to evaluating the program's success.