Bill Text: CA AB842 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Child nutrition: school, childcare, and preschool meals.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2020-01-21 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [AB842 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB842-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 02, 2019 |
Assembly Bill | No. 842 |
Introduced by Assembly Members Limón and Eggman |
February 20, 2019 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
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(5)Existing law authorizes a school district or charter school to maintain a transitional kindergarten program.
This bill would require each school district or charter school maintaining a transitional kindergarten program to provide each needy child with one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal per program day.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Section 8204 of the Education Code is amended to read:8204.
(a) In recognition of the demonstrated relationship between food and good nutrition and the capacity of children to develop and learn, it is the policy of this state that no child shall be hungry while in attendance in childcare and development facilities and that childcare and development facilities have an obligation to provide for the nutritional needs of children in attendance.(a)A school district, county office of education, or charter school maintaining a childcare and development program shall provide each needy child that attends the childcare and development program with one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal during each program day.
(b)In order to comply with subdivision (a), a school district, county office of education, or charter school may use funds made available to it through any federal or state program the purpose of which includes the provision of meals to a child, including, to the extent applicable, the federal School Breakfast Program, the federal National School Lunch Program, the federal Summer Food Service Program, the federal Seamless Summer Option, the state meal program, or the
Child and Adult Care Food Program, or may do so at the expense of the school district, county office of education, or charter school.
SEC. 4.SEC. 3.
Section 8235.1 is added to the Education Code, to read:8235.1.
(a) Each part-day California state preschool program shall provide to each child enrolled in the program access to at least one nutritious meal per program day.SEC. 4.
Section 47613.5 of the Education Code is amended to read:47613.5.
(a) (1) A charter school shall provide each needy pupil, as defined in Section 49552, with one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 49553, during each schoolday.(a)Notwithstanding any other law, each school district or charter school maintaining a transitional kindergarten program pursuant to Section 48000 shall provide each needy child with one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal per program day.
(b)In order to comply with subdivision (a), a school district or charter school may use funds made available to it through any federal or state program the purpose of which includes the provision of meals to a child, including, to the extent applicable, the federal School Breakfast Program, the federal National School Lunch Program, the federal Summer Food Service Program, the federal Seamless Summer Option, the state meal program, or the Child and Adult Care Food Program, or may do so at the
expense of the school district or charter school.
SEC. 6.SEC. 5.
Section 49430.5 is added to the Education Code, to read:49430.5.
(a) The reimbursement a school or child development program receives for free and reduced-price meals sold or served to pupils included within a school district, charter school, or county office of education, or to children in childcare centers or homes, shall be established in the annual Budget Act or another statute at an equivalent reimbursement rate.(b)To qualify for the reimbursement for free and reduced-price meals provided to pupils, or to children in childcare centers or homes, a school or child development program shall follow the United States Department of Agriculture meal pattern.
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