HB 24-1206 Summary

• Allows approved facility schools and facilities to act as school food authorities under federal school lunch and child nutrition programs

• Adds the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind as a recognized school food authority in state statutes governing food services and meal reimbursements

• Designates approved facility schools as school food authorities in three Colorado statutes addressing food services, national school lunch act matching funds, and school breakfast programs

• Permits the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind to operate as a residential child care facility and school food authority simultaneously

• Appropriates $17,752 to the Department of Education for the 2023-24 fiscal year from the healthy school meals for all program general fund for school meal reimbursements