Texas 2015 - 84th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB981 Compare Versions

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1	1	84R7452 CAE-D
2	2	By: Taylor of Galveston S.B. No. 981
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to a program to provide a free or reduced-price breakfast
8	8	to eligible students attending a public school and the method of
9	9	determining the number of educationally disadvantaged students.
10	10	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	11	SECTION 1. Section 33.901, Education Code, is amended by
12	12	amending Subsections (a) and (b) and adding Subsection (a-1) to
13	13	read as follows:
14	14	(a) If at least 10 percent of the students enrolled in one or
15	15	more schools in a school district or enrolled in an open-enrollment
16	16	charter school are eligible for free or reduced-price breakfasts
17	17	under the national school breakfast program provided for by the
18	18	Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. Section 1773), the board of
19	19	trustees of the school district or the governing body of the
20	20	open-enrollment charter school shall either:
21	21	(1) participate in the national program and make the
22	22	benefits of the national program available to all eligible students
23	23	in the schools or school; or
24	24	(2) develop and implement a locally funded program to
25	25	provide a free or reduced-price breakfast to all students in the
26	26	school or schools eligible under the national program.
27	27	(a-1) A school district is permitted under Subsection (a) to
28	28	participate in the national program at one or more campuses in the
29	29	district and provide a locally funded program at one or more other
30	30	campuses in the district.
31	31	(b) A school district campus or an open-enrollment charter
32	32	school participating in the national school breakfast program
33	33	provided by the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. Section 1773)
34	34	or providing a locally funded program in which 80 percent or more of
35	35	the students qualify under the national program for a free or
36	36	reduced-price breakfast shall offer a free breakfast to each
37	37	student.
38	38	SECTION 2. Section 42.152(b), Education Code, is amended to
39	39	read as follows:
40	40	(b) For purposes of this section, the number of
41	41	educationally disadvantaged students is determined:
42	42	(1) by averaging the best six months' numbers of
43	43	students eligible for enrollment in the national school lunch
44	44	program of free or reduced-price lunches for the preceding school
45	45	year; or
46	46	(2) in the manner provided by commissioner rule[, if
47	47	no campus in the district participated in the national school lunch
48	48	program of free or reduced-price lunches during the preceding
49	49	school year].
50	50	SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016
51	51	school year.
52	52	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
53	53	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
54	54	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
55	55	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
56	56	Act takes effect September 1, 2015.