86R3022 CAE-F
By: Martinez H.B. No. 1017
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring certain public school campuses to donate and
distribute food to students.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 33.907, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:
(b-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (b), a school district or
open-enrollment charter school shall require a campus in which 50
percent or more of the students attending the campus are eligible
for enrollment in the national school lunch program of free or
reduced-price lunches to donate food to a nonprofit organization to
be distributed to students at the campus as provided by this
section.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
school year.
SECTION 3. 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, 2019.