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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
SENATE BILL 28 By: Hicks
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to schools; amending 70 O.S. 2021,
Section 3-119, which relates to school nutrition;
updating statutory language; requiring school
districts to provide meals at no cost to certain
children in certain school years; requiring
apportionment of funds for certain purpose; providing
an effective date; and declaring an emergency .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 70 O.S. 2021, Se ction 3-119, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 3-119. A. Funds appropriated to the State Board of
Education for School Lunch Matching school lunch matching and School
Lunch Programs school lunch programs shall be apportioned by the
State Board of Education to each school district for the purpose of
providing meals for children in compliance with the National School
Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 and Public Law 91-248,
as they may hereafter be amended or supplemented.
B. For the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 school years, school
districts shall provide meals at no cost to a child who is a member
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of a household in which the total annual income during the preceding
tax year did not exceed an amount equal to two hundred fifty percent
(250%) of the federal poverty level. Funds shall be apportioned by
the State Board of Education pursuant to subsection A of this
section to each school district for the purposes of this sub section.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2025.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health, or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason w hereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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