Bill Text: NH HB1512 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to reducing school food waste and addressing child hunger.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-19 - Full Committee Work Session: 09/22/2020 10:00 am Members of the public may attend using this link: : https://www.zoom.us/j/97236261808 - Executive Session to Follow [HB1512 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2020-HB1512-Introduced.html
HB 1512 - AS INTRODUCED
2020 SESSION
20-2401
06/03
HOUSE BILL 1512
AN ACT relative to reducing school food waste and addressing child hunger.
SPONSORS: Rep. Loughman, Rock. 21; Rep. Le, Rock. 31; Rep. M. Murray, Hills. 22; Sen. Sherman, Dist 24; Sen. Morgan, Dist 23
COMMITTEE: Education
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ANALYSIS
This bill permits a school to partner with a nonprofit to freeze leftover school food that was never served to send home with children who participate in a free or reduced price meals program.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
20-2401
06/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty
AN ACT relative to reducing school food waste and addressing child hunger.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Powers of School Districts; Reduction of School Food Waste. Amend RSA 194 by inserting after section 3-d the following new section:
194:3-e Reduction of School Food Waste. A school may partner with a nonprofit to make leftover school food, that was prepared but never served, into frozen to-go meals. The school may send such meals home with children who participate in a free or reduced price meals program.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
