Bill > A5883

Introduced Session

This bill requires the Department of Agriculture, in consultation with the Department of Education, to develop and administer a "breakfast after the bell" State supplement to provide an additional reimbursement to certain school districts that participate in the federal school breakfast program. Under the bill, the State will provide a 10-cent per breakfast supplement to the existing federal reimbursement to a school district with schools that participate in the federal school breakfast program by providing "breakfast after the bell." The bill directs the Department of Agriculture, in consultation with the Department of Education, to provide guidance and support to school districts, and to prepare and issue an annual report detailing the annual cost of the State supplement and the number and percentage of additional students participating in the "breakfast after the bell" program for each school district. The bill specifies that the Legislature is to annually appropriate funds necessary to implement the bill.

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Teresa Ruiz (D)*,  Gary Schaer (D)*,  Shanique Speight (D)*,  Sterley Stanley (D)*,  Shirley Turner (D)*,  Andrew Zwicker (D)*,  Jim Beach (D),  Mila Jasey (D),  Pam Lampitt (D),  Angela Mcknight (D),  Carol Murphy (D),  Paul Sarlo (D),  Troy Singleton (D),  Lisa Swain (D),  Britnee Timberlake (D),  Chris Tully (D),  Valerie Vainieri Huttle (D),  Benjie Wimberly (D), 

Approved P.L.2021, c.247. (on 09/30/2021)