Bill Text: IL HB2471 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Amends the School Breakfast and Lunch Program Act. In provisions concerning reimbursement of sponsors, provides that the State Board of Education shall reimburse not less than $0.15 or the actual cost, whichever is less, to non-profit welfare centers for each free breakfast and lunch. Provides that the State Board of Education shall establish the Healthy School Meals for All Program to begin on July 1, 2023. Provides that each school board of a school district or governing body of a nonpublic school that chooses to participate in the Healthy School Meals for All Program shall offer eligible meals, without charge, to all students enrolled in schools that participate in the National School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program. Sets forth provisions regarding eligibility for the Healthy School Meals for All Program, program requirements, reimbursement (subject to appropriation), federal and other funding, State Board support and technical assistance, and the federal Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program. Provides that if the United States Department of Agriculture creates the option for the State, as a whole, to participate in the Community Eligibility Provision, then the State Board of Education shall evaluate whether that option is anticipated to require less State funding than the Healthy School Meals for All Program and provide at least as many free meals to students. Sets forth requirements concerning that option. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-08-11 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0532 [HB2471 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB2471-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Amends the School Breakfast and Lunch Program Act. In provisions concerning reimbursement of sponsors, provides that the State Board of Education shall reimburse not less than $0.15 or the actual cost, whichever is less, to non-profit welfare centers for each free breakfast and lunch. Provides that the State Board of Education shall establish the Healthy School Meals for All Program to begin on July 1, 2023. Provides that each school board of a school district or governing body of a nonpublic school that chooses to participate in the Healthy School Meals for All Program shall offer eligible meals, without charge, to all students enrolled in schools that participate in the National School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program. Sets forth provisions regarding eligibility for the Healthy School Meals for All Program, program requirements, reimbursement (subject to appropriation), federal and other funding, State Board support and technical assistance, and the federal Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program. Provides that if the United States Department of Agriculture creates the option for the State, as a whole, to participate in the Community Eligibility Provision, then the State Board of Education shall evaluate whether that option is anticipated to require less State funding than the Healthy School Meals for All Program and provide at least as many free meals to students. Sets forth requirements concerning that option. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-08-11 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0532 [HB2471 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB2471-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The School Breakfast and Lunch Program Act is | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | amended by adding Section 2.3 as follows:
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| 6 | (105 ILCS 125/2.3 new) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sec. 2.3. Supplemental aid. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | (a) Subject to appropriation, for State Fiscal Year 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | only and in addition to other amounts provided for school | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | breakfast and lunch programs, the State Board of Education | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | shall provide supplemental nutrition aid to participants
in | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | the national school breakfast and lunch programs. A | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | participant's supplemental nutrition
aid under this Section | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | shall equal the participant's State Fiscal Year 2023 actual | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | expenditures for providing school breakfast
and lunch | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | programs, minus the participant's State Fiscal Year 2023 State | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | reimbursement under this Act, minus the
participant's State | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | Fiscal Year 2023 federal contribution for school breakfast and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | lunch programs. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | (b) This Section is repealed on January 1, 2026.
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| 21 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | becoming law.
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