Bill Text: NH HB1681 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishing a committee to study school meal programs in New Hampshire's public schools and non-sectarian schools that accept public funds.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-01 - Committee Report: Ought to Pass (Vote 13-9; Regular Calendar) House Calendar 23 P. 9 [HB1681 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2020-HB1681-Introduced.html
HB 1681-FN - AS INTRODUCED
2020 SESSION
20-2096
06/08
HOUSE BILL 1681-FN
AN ACT relative to school lunch reimbursements.
SPONSORS: Rep. Horrigan, Straf. 6
COMMITTEE: Education
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires schools to make free or reduced cost lunch available to children who meet federal eligibility guidelines and increases reimbursement to schools offering lunch at no cost to eligible students.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
20-2096
06/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty
AN ACT relative to school lunch reimbursements.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 School Boards; Food and Nutrition Programs. Amend RSA 189:11-a, I to read as follows:
I. Each school board shall make [at least one meal] breakfast and lunch available during school hours to every pupil under its jurisdiction. Such meals shall be served without cost or at a reduced cost to any child who meets federal income eligibility guidelines. The state board of education shall ensure compliance with this section and shall establish minimum nutritional standards for such meals as well as income guidelines set for the family size used in determining eligibility for free and reduced price meals. [Nothing in this section shall prohibit the operation of both a breakfast and lunch program in the same school].
2 School Boards; Food and Nutrition Programs. Amend RSA 189:11-a, VII(b) to read as follows:
(b) Such school which demonstrates to the department of education that an approved school wellness policy, as required under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, Public Law 111-296, and the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, 42 U.S.C. section 1758b is in effect, and that such school is providing breakfast [meals] and lunch to pupils that meet or exceed the United States Department of Agriculture’s child nutrition criteria may apply for and receive a 3 cent reimbursement for each breakfast [meal] and lunch served to a pupil and an additional 27 cent reimbursement for each meal served to students eligible for a reduced price meal. The department of education shall request biennial appropriations in an amount sufficient to meet projected school breakfast and lunch reimbursements to ensure students eligible for reduced price meals are offered breakfast and lunch at no cost. The department of education shall prescribe forms as necessary under this paragraph.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.
20-2096
12/20/19
HB 1681-FN- FISCAL NOTE
AS INTRODUCED
AN ACT relative to school lunch reimbursements.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Office of Legislative Budget Assistant is unable to complete a fiscal note for this bill, as introduced, as it is awaiting information from the Department of Education, who was originally contacted on October 4, 2019, with follow up on November 25, 2019 and December 12, 2019 for a fiscal note worksheet, which they have not provided as of December 20, 2019. When completed, the fiscal note will be forwarded to the House Clerk's Office.
AGENCIES CONTACTED:
Department of Education
