Florida Senate Bill 1646 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Failed on March 14 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-03-14 - Died in Education
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requiring public schools and nonprofit private schools participating in certain federal programs to provide students, at no cost, a printed meal application or an explanation and instructions on how to apply; requiring schools to complete and file an application for free or reduced-price meals on a student's behalf under certain circumstances; requiring school district liaisons for homeless children to coordinate with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to ensure that homeless students in public schools receive free and reduced-price meals; providing duties for public and nonprofit private schools which apply regardless of a student's ability to pay for meals or whether the student owes money for previous meals, etc.

School Meals

Sen. Gary Farmer [D]

Sen. Ray Rodrigues [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-03-14	Senate	Died in Education
2022-03-12	Senate	Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2022-01-18	Senate	Introduced
2022-01-12	Senate	Referred to Education; Agriculture; Rules
2022-01-06	Senate	Filed

H1275 (Similar To) 2022-03-14 - Died in Early Learning & Elementary Education Subcommittee

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
1002	24		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1646
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1646/BillText/Filed/HTML