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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
ENGROSSED SENATE
BILL NO. 1324 By: Thompson (Roger) of the
Senate
and
Lawson and Waldron of the
House
An Act relating to school nutrition; directing the
State Department of Education to make certain
electronic universal application available to school
districts; providing minimum criteria for
application; providing certain construction;
providing for codification; providing an effective
date; and declaring an emergency .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 3 -119.1 of Title 70, unless
there is created a duplica tion in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The State Department of Education shall make available to
school districts an o ptional electronic universal application for
free or reduced-price meals under the National School Lunch Act .
The application shall at a minimum:
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1. Enable parents and legal guardians to complete and
electronically submit applications for free and reduce d-price meals
to the school districts in which their students are enrolled ;
2. Facilitate school districts in collecting and electronic ally
submitting free and reduced -price meal applications to the State
Department of Education; and
3. Allow for secure transmission of data necessary for
eligibility and enrollment determinations for the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program.
B. The provisions of this section sh all not be construed to
require school districts, parents, or legal guardians to use the
electronic universal application provided for in subsection A of
this section.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2024.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, heal th, or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and afte r its passage and approval.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON COMMON EDUCATION, dated 04/02/2024
- DO PASS, As Coauthored.