Bill > A1657

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" incentive fund to provide an additional reimbursement to certain school districts that participate in the federal school breakfast program. Under the bill, the incentive fund will provide a 10-cent per breakfast supplement to the existing federal reimbursement to school districts participating in the federal school breakfast program that serve "breakfast after the bell" with 20 to 100 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced price breakfast. 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 incentive fund 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. The bill takes effect immediately upon enactment. The purpose of the bill is to provide a financial incentive to encourage more low and middle-income school districts in this State to move to a school breakfast model that has the capacity to reach a greater number of students at the start of the school day.

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Nilsa Cruz-Perez (D)*,  Pam Lampitt (D)*,  Gabriela Mosquera (D)*,  Gary Schaer (D)*,  Shavonda Sumter (D)*,  Shirley Turner (D)*,  Valerie Vainieri Huttle (D)*,  Benjie Wimberly (D)*,  Mila Jasey (D),  Angela Mcknight (D),  Annette Quijano (D),  Teresa Ruiz (D), 

Absolute Veto, Received in the Assembly (on 07/21/2016)