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IN SB0314
Bill
AI Summary
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Schools participating in federal lunch or breakfast programs must provide USDA-compliant meals to any student who requests one, unless the parent/guardian submits a written request not to serve the student.
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Schools are prohibited from requiring students to throw away meals due to inability to pay or existing meal debt.
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Schools cannot publicly identify or stigmatize students who cannot pay for meals or owe meal debt, and cannot require such students to perform chores or work to pay for meals.
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When a student owes money for more than four meals, schools must check eligibility for free meals, attempt to contact the parent/guardian at least twice to complete meal applications, and offer assistance through school administrators.
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Schools must direct all meal debt communications to parents or guardians rather than students, unless the student is emancipated; effective July 1, 2018.
Legislative Description
Student meals and lunch shaming. Requires public schools, charter schools, and nonpublic schools that participate in the national school lunch program or national school breakfast program, or both, to provide a meal that meets the reimbursable meal requirements established by the United States Department of Agriculture to a student if: (1) the student requests a meal; and (2) the student's parent or guardian has not submitted a written request that the school not serve the student a meal. Prohibits the schools from the following: (1) Requiring a student to dispose of a meal because of the student's inability to pay
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development
1/4/2018