Bill Text: TX HB4112 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to funding for the provision of meals to public school students with insufficient balances on prepaid meal cards or meal accounts.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-29 - Referred to Public Education [HB4112 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4112-Introduced.html
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By: Talarico | H.B. No. 4112 |
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relating to funding for the provision of meals to public school | ||
students with insufficient balances on prepaid meal cards or meal | ||
accounts. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 33.908, Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 33.908. FUNDING [ |
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INSUFFICIENT MEAL CARD OR ACCOUNT BALANCE. (a) Each [ |
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meal card or account to purchase meals served at a campus [ |
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in the district [ |
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(1) must allow a student whose meal card or account | ||
balance is exhausted or insufficient to continue, for the entire | ||
school year [ |
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by: | ||
(A) accumulating a negative balance on the | ||
student's card or account; or | ||
(B) otherwise receiving an extension of credit | ||
from the district; and | ||
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interest in connection with meals purchased under Subdivision (1)[ |
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(b) At the end of each school year, from funds available for | ||
the purpose, the agency shall provide a grant to each district in | ||
the amount necessary to pay the negative balance for each student | ||
whose meal card or account balance is exhausted or insufficient, | ||
excluding: | ||
(1) any amount the school district received from | ||
private donations from individuals and entities for the purpose of | ||
paying the negative balance on a student's meal card or account; and | ||
(2) any amount of reimbursement to which the district | ||
is entitled under federal law. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022 | ||
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, 2021. |