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This bill creates a Hunger-Free Campus Program within the Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential to address student hunger and food insecurity in Michigan's higher education institutions. The program aims to support students by requiring participating campuses to meet specific criteria, including establishing a hunger task force, designating a staff member to help students enroll in nutrition assistance programs like SNAP, providing on-campus food pantry services, creating meal credit donation programs, and conducting annual student hunger surveys. To be designated as a hunger-free campus, institutions must form a task force that meets at least three times per academic year, help students access SNAP benefits, offer SNAP EBT options at campus stores or nearby locations, hold hunger awareness events, provide food pantry access, develop meal donation programs, and submit student hunger survey results to the department. The bill applies to public and private colleges, universities, junior colleges, community colleges, and federally recognized tribal colleges in Michigan, with the ultimate goals of reducing barriers to student achievement, raising awareness of basic needs services, and building strategic partnerships to combat student food insecurity.

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https://legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=2025-HB-4520