Bill Text: TX HB1017 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to requiring certain public school campuses to donate and distribute food to students.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-25 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1017 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1017-Comm_Sub.html
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 |
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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. |