Bill Text: TX HB2756 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the donation of food by public school campuses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-24 - Committee report printed and distributed [HB2756 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2756-Comm_Sub.html
By: Allen, Bernal, Collier (Senate Sponsor - Miles) | H.B. No. 2756 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 2021; | ||
May 17, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Education; May 24, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 24, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the donation of food by public school campuses. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 33.907, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (b) and (c) and adding Subsection (c-1) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may | ||
allow a campus to elect to donate food to a nonprofit organization | ||
through a person [ |
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directly and officially affiliated with the campus, including a | ||
teacher or [ |
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at the campus. The donated food may be received, stored, and | ||
distributed on the campus. Food donated by the campus may include: | ||
(1) surplus food prepared for breakfast, lunch, or | ||
dinner meals or snacks [ |
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cafeteria, subject to any applicable local, state, and federal | ||
requirements; or | ||
(2) food donated to the campus as the result of a food | ||
drive or similar event. | ||
(c) The type of food donated under Subsection (b)(1) [ |
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(1) packaged [ |
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packaged on the campus of a school district or open-enrollment | ||
charter school and has not been removed from the campus cafeteria; | ||
(2) packaged served food if the packaging and food are | ||
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(3) whole, uncut produce; and | ||
(4) wrapped raw unserved produce[ |
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(c-1) Food that by law must be maintained at a certain | ||
temperature for safety may not be donated unless the campus has | ||
maintained the food at the required temperature. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
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