Bill Text: IL SB2209 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Childhood Hunger Relief Act. Provides that, subject to appropriation, the State Board of Education shall award grants of up to $5,000 per school site on a competitive basis to eligible school districts, regional superintendents of schools, or entities approved by the State Board of Education for nonrecurring expenses incurred in initiating a school breakfast after the bell program. Sets forth what the grants may be used for and who gets preference for a grant.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-17 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy [SB2209 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB2209-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB2209 Introduced 2/10/2023, by Sen. Christopher Belt SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 126/18 new
Amends the Childhood Hunger Relief Act. Provides that, subject to appropriation, the State Board of Education shall award grants of up to $5,000 per school site on a competitive basis to eligible school districts, regional superintendents of schools, or entities approved by the State Board of Education for nonrecurring expenses incurred in initiating a school breakfast after the bell program. Sets forth what the grants may be used for and who gets preference for a grant.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Childhood Hunger Relief Act is amended by
adding Section 18 as follows:
(105 ILCS 126/18 new)
Sec. 18. Breakfast after the bell grant program.
(a) Subject to appropriation, the State Board of Education
shall award grants of up to $5,000 per school site on a
competitive basis to eligible school districts, regional
superintendents of schools, or entities approved by the State
Board of Education for nonrecurring expenses incurred in
initiating a school breakfast program under Section 16.
Grants awarded under this Section shall be used for
nonrecurring costs of initiating a breakfast after the bell
program, including the acquisition of equipment, training of
staff in new capacities, outreach efforts to publicize new or
expanded school breakfast programs, minor alterations to
accommodate new equipment, computer point-of-service systems
for food service, and the purchase of vehicles for
transporting food to schools. Grant funds may not be used for
the salaries and benefits of staff, food, computers, except
computer point-of-service systems, or capital outlay.

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(b) In making grant awards under this Section in any
fiscal year, the State Board of Education shall give a
preference to school districts and regional superintendents of
schools that do all of the following:
(1) Submit to the State Board of Education a plan to
start or expand school breakfast programs in the school
district or the educational service region, including a
description of the following:
(A) the manner in which the school district or
regional superintendent of schools will provide
technical assistance and funding to school sites to
expand school breakfast programs;
(B) the nonrecurring expenses needed to initiate a
school breakfast program; and
(C) public or private resources that have been
assembled to carry out expansion of school breakfast
programs during the school year.
(2) Agree to operate a school breakfast program for a
period of not less than 3 school years.
(3) Ensure that the expenditure of funds from State
and local resources for the maintenance of a school
breakfast program are not diminished as a result of a
grant award received under this Section.