Bill Text: NH SB205 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requiring schools to offer free or reduced cost breakfast and lunch to children who meet federal income eligibility guidelines.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-13 - Inexpedient to Legislate, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote === BILL KILLED ===; 03/13/2025; Senate Journal 7 [SB205 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2025-SB205-Introduced.html

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SB 205-FN - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-1106

02/06

 

SENATE BILL 205-FN

 

AN ACT requiring schools to offer free or reduced cost breakfast and lunch to children who meet federal income eligibility guidelines.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Long, Dist 20; Sen. Altschiller, Dist 24; Rep. Telerski, Hills. 11

 

COMMITTEE: Education

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires school boards to provide breakfast and lunch to pupils under their jurisdiction.

 

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-1106

02/06

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT requiring schools to offer free or reduced cost breakfast and lunch to children who meet federal income eligibility guidelines.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Food and Nutrition Programs.  Amend RSA 189:11-a, I to read as follows:

I. Each school board shall make [at least one meal] lunch available during school hours to every pupil under its jurisdiction, and breakfast shall be made available before or during school hours to every pupil under the school board's jurisdiction, unless the start of school is delayed. 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  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.

 

LBA

25-1106

1/19/25

 

SB 205-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS INTRODUCED

 

AN ACT requiring schools to offer free or reduced cost breakfast and lunch to children who meet federal income eligibility guidelines.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:

The Office of Legislative Budget Assistant is unable to complete a fiscal note for this bill as it is awaiting information from the Department of Education.  The Department was contacted on 1/8/25 for a fiscal note worksheet.  When completed, the fiscal note will be forwarded to the Senate Clerk's Office.

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Department of Education