85R12536 MM-D
By: Hall S.B. No. 1308
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the program to provide free or reduced-price meals to
certain public school students.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 33.901(a) and (b), Education Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(a) If at least 10 percent of the students enrolled in one or
more schools in a school district or enrolled in an open-enrollment
charter school are eligible for free or reduced-price breakfasts
under the national school breakfast program provided for by the
Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. Section 1773), the board of
trustees of the school district or the governing body of the
open-enrollment charter school may [shall either]:
(1) participate in the national program and make the
benefits of the national program available to all eligible students
in the schools or school; or
(2) develop and implement a locally funded program to
provide free meals, including breakfast and lunch, to each student
eligible for free meals under federal law and reduced-price meals,
including breakfast and lunch, to each student eligible for
reduced-price meals under federal law, provided that the reduced
price may not exceed the maximum allowable rate under federal law.
(b) A school district campus or an open-enrollment charter
school participating in the national school breakfast program
provided for by the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. Section
1773) or providing a locally funded program in which 80 percent or
more of the students qualify under the national program for a free
or reduced-price breakfast may [shall] offer a free breakfast to
each student.
SECTION 2. Section 33.901(c), Education Code, is repealed.
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018
school year.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2017.