Kentucky Senate Bill 40

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 2 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-01-03 - to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
Pending: Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Proud School Match Program; direct the Department of Education to reimburse an eligible school district $0.33 for every meal reimbursed by the community eligibility provision at the paid rate; require a school district that receives a reimbursement to develop and implement a Kentucky Proud school plan to identify and purchase available Kentucky-grown agricultural products and to optimize food usage; direct the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to carry out this section; provide that the section shall be null and void if the community eligibility provision is terminated by the United States Department of Agriculture; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Proud School Match Act; APPROPRIATION.

AN ACT relating to school meals at low-income schools and making an appropriation therefor.

Sen. Casey Chambers Armstrong [D]

Sen. Reginald Thomas [D]

Sen. David Yates [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-03	Senate	to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
2024-01-02	Senate	to Committee on Committees (S)
2024-01-02	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/sb40.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/sb40/orig_bill.pdf