86R21283 CAE-F
By: Martinez, Guillen H.B. No. 1017
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1017:
By: Bernal C.S.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 Subsections (b-1) and (b-2) to read as follows:
(b-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (b) and except as provided
by Subsection (b-2), a school district or open-enrollment charter
school shall require a campus in which 70 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.
(b-2) A school district subject to Subsection (b-1) is not
required to donate food to a nonprofit organization if the campus:
(1) does not have a significant amount of surplus food
to donate as determined by the district; or
(2) donates food to an alternative program operated to
address hunger issues in the district in which the campus is
located.
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.