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AZ HB2352
Bill
Status
1/25/2023
Primary Sponsor
Patricia Contreras
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AI Summary
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Establishes the No Lunch Debt Grant Program administered by the Department of Education to relieve public school students of lunch debt.
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Allows school districts and charter schools participating in the national school lunch program to apply quarterly for grants up to the aggregate amount of accumulated student lunch debt.
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Requires schools to credit grant funds to individual student meal accounts and exempts discharged lunch debt from being taxable income to parents.
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Appropriates $2,000,000 from the state general fund in fiscal year 2023-2024 to the No Lunch Debt Fund, with funds exempt from lapsing provisions.
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Allows the Department of Education to accept and spend federal monies and private grants, gifts, and donations to support the program.
Legislative Description
Lunch debt; grant program; schools
Schools
Last Action
House read second time
1/26/2023