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Regular Session, 2014
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON NO. 114
BY REPRESENTATIVE PATRICK WILLIAMS
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON
To urge and request the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to adopt a rule
relative to requirements with respect to student lunch time.
WHEREAS, meals provided at public schools serve to meet the nutritional needs of
students; and
WHEREAS, proper nutrition for students leads to better health outcomes and higher
levels of academic achievement; and
WHEREAS, proper nutrition requires that students have enough seated lunch time
during the lunch period to fully consume their food; and
WHEREAS, the presence of state mandated assessments may encourage teachers and
administrators to curtail the length of the student lunch period in order to produce better
educational outcomes.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana hereby urges
and requests the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to adopt a rule to read
substantively as follows: "Each local education agency shall provide no less than twenty
minutes of time for students to be seated and consume their food. The twenty minutes of
seated lunch time shall be separate from the time required for students to navigate from the
classroom to the lunch room, stand in line to receive the lunch meal, and to return to the
classroom after lunch has been consumed."
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
president of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the state
superintendent of education.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE