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OH SB372

Bill

Status

Introduced

9/11/2012

Primary Sponsor

Edna Brown

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Origin

Senate

129th General Assembly (2011-2012)

AI Summary

  • School districts must permit alternative summer meal sponsors to use school facilities in attendance areas where at least half of students are federally eligible for free lunches, even if the district cannot financially operate its own summer food program; districts may charge reasonable facility use fees and require indemnification.

  • School districts providing summer food service programs may use school buses to transport children to meal sites, transport meals to sites, and permit meal consumption on parked (not moving) buses in compliance with applicable safety standards.

  • Creates a new "healthy food license" for child day-care centers and school child programs authorizing them to receive, serve, and store fruit, vegetables, and single-serving dairy products without full food service operation licensing.

  • Director of health must adopt rules governing healthy food licenses including application procedures, fees, inspection standards, licensing categories, and suspension/revocation procedures; specifications for handling food under this license cannot be more restrictive than food service operation requirements.

  • Amends food safety and licensing provisions to reference new healthy food license category and clarifies inspection responsibilities between various state agencies.

Legislative Description

To require school districts to allow alternative summer meal sponsors to use school facilities to provide food service for summer intervention services regardless of financial reasons if at least half of the students are federally eligible for free lunches, to allow the distribution and consumption of meals on a school bus, and to create a healthy food license for child day-care centers and school child programs.

School/child-day care-meals

Last Action

To Education

9/11/2012

Full Bill Text

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