Bill Text: VA HJR452 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Constitutional amendment (first reference); right to food choice.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-07 - Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections [HJR452 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2025-HJR452-Introduced.html

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2025 SESSION

INTRODUCED

25100472D

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 452

Offered January 8, 2025

Prefiled January 7, 2025

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia by adding in Article I a section numbered 15-B, relating to right to food choice.

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Patron—Freitas

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Committee Referral Pending

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RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, a majority of the members elected to each house agreeing, That the following amendment to the Constitution of Virginia be, and the same hereby is, proposed and referred to the General Assembly at its first regular session held after the next general election of members of the House of Delegates for its concurrence in conformity with the provisions of Section 1 of Article XII of the Constitution of Virginia, namely:

Amend the Constitution of Virginia by adding in Article I a section numbered 15-B as follows:

ARTICLE I

BILL OF RIGHTS

Section 15-B. Food choice.

That the right of the people to acquire the food of their choice from the source of their choice, with mutual consent, shall not be infringed.