Bill Text: TX HB3562 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the adoption of a policy allowing a grace period after the exhaustion of the balance of a meal card or account used by students to purchase meals in public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2015-06-18 - Effective immediately [HB3562 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3562-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3562 |
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relating to the adoption of a policy allowing a grace period after | ||
the exhaustion of the balance of a meal card or account used by | ||
students to purchase meals in public schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 33.908 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 33.908. GRACE PERIOD POLICY FOR EXHAUSTED OR | ||
INSUFFICIENT MEAL CARD OR ACCOUNT BALANCE. A school district that | ||
allows students to use a prepaid meal card or account to purchase | ||
meals served at the school shall adopt a grace period policy | ||
regarding the use of the cards or accounts. The policy: | ||
(1) must allow a student whose meal card or account | ||
balance is exhausted or insufficient to continue, for a period | ||
determined by the district, to purchase meals by: | ||
(A) accumulating a negative balance on the | ||
student's card or account; or | ||
(B) otherwise receiving an extension of credit | ||
from the district; | ||
(2) must require the district to notify the parent of | ||
or person standing in parental relation to the student that the | ||
student's meal card or account balance is exhausted; | ||
(3) may not permit the district to charge a fee or | ||
interest in connection with meals purchased under Subdivision (1); | ||
and | ||
(4) may permit the district to set a schedule for | ||
repayment on the account balance as part of the notice to the parent | ||
or person standing in parental relation to the student. | ||
SECTION 2. T | ||
his Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3562 was passed by the House on April | ||
30, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 3, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 3562 on May 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 137, Nays 2, | ||
3 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 3562 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 25, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 21, Nays | ||
10. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |