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AZ HB2352

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/25/2023

Primary Sponsor

Patricia Contreras

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Origin

House of Representatives

Fifty-sixth Legislature - First Regular Session (2023)

AI Summary

  • Establishes the No Lunch Debt Grant Program administered by the Department of Education to relieve public school students of lunch debt.

  • 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.

  • Requires schools to credit grant funds to individual student meal accounts and exempts discharged lunch debt from being taxable income to parents.

  • 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.

  • 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

Committee Referrals

Rules1/25/2023
Appropriations1/25/2023
Education1/25/2023

Full Bill Text

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