Universal Free School Breakfast and Lunch Program
Universal Free School Breakfast and Lunch Program
Relating to school meals; declaring an emergency.
Establishes school breakfast kiosk pilot program.
Requires school districts to take certain actions in circumstances when school meal bill is in arrears; prohibits shaming students with school meal bills in arrears; prohibits certain district actions in collecting unpaid school meal fees.
Directs Department of Agriculture in consultation with DOE, to establish Internet-based school meals application.
Requires public and nonpublic schools with lunch programs to provide free lunch to increasing numbers of income-eligible students and, after five-year phase-in, to provide free lunch to all students, regardless of income or federal eligibility.
A bill for an act relating to school lunch and breakfast programs provided by school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions.