HB 248 Summary

• Requires the Department of Education to fully implement the farm to school program and farm to school meals program by the 2024-2025 school year, with progress reports due to the legislature by 2024, 2025, and 2026

• Grants complex area superintendents authority to implement the farm to school programs, oversee school production kitchens, supervise cafeteria supervisors, and manage procurement of local produce within their respective complex areas

• Requires all school-level cafeteria supervisors to report directly to complex area superintendents rather than remaining in the state-level centralized food authority structure

• Establishes five new full-time equivalent permanent school cafeteria supervisor positions based at the school level, with appropriations for fiscal years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025

• Directs the Office of Talent Management to review and recommend modifications to the classification and compensation schedules for school cafeteria supervisors to reflect their expanded responsibilities, with recommendations due by early 2024