Bill Text: MI HB6010 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Education; meals; hunger-free students' bill of rights act; create. Amends sec. 1272b of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1272b).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-17 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 05/16/2018 [HB6010 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB6010-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 6010
May 16, 2018, Introduced by Rep. Kosowski and referred to the Committee on Education Reform.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled
"The revised school code,"
by amending section 1272b (MCL 380.1272b), as amended by 2015 PA
42.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1272b. (1) In all school meal programs established and
operated under section 1272a, all of the following apply:
(a) Subject to subsection (2), nutritional standards
prescribed
by the United States Department of Agriculture pursuant
to
under section 9 of the national school lunch act, 42 USC
1758,
shall
must be met and maintained.
(b) The board of a school district or board of directors of a
public school academy may charge a fee for meals or milk, but the
fee shall not exceed the actual average daily cost, including
necessary supervision, of the meal or milk and accessories, less
the amount of food and financial assistance received by the board
or board of directors for the meal or milk.
(c) The board of a school district or board of directors of a
public school academy shall provide free and reduced price meals
and free milk to all pupils eligible under the maximum standards
prescribed by the United States Department of Agriculture pursuant
to section 9 of the national school lunch act, 42 USC 1758; shall
ensure the confidentiality of all information contained in
applications for eligibility; and shall further ensure that
eligible pupils are not discriminated against or overtly identified
in any manner.
(d) The board of a school district or board of directors of a
public school academy shall provide for parent and pupil
participation in the planning and evaluation of school meals and
other foods sold or dispensed on school premises.
(e) The board of a school district or board of directors of a
public school academy shall not publicly identify or stigmatize a
pupil who cannot pay for a meal or who owes a meal debt by
requiring a pupil to wear a wristband or handstamp, by serving the
pupil an alternative meal, or by any other means.
(f) The board of a school district or board of directors of a
public school academy shall not require a pupil who cannot pay for
a meal or who owes a meal debt to perform chores or other work to
pay for meals.
(g) If a pupil is less than 15 years of age, the board of a
school district or board of directors of a public school academy
shall not communicate directly with the pupil about a meal debt and
shall only communicate about a meal debt with the pupil's parent or
legal guardian.
(h) The board of a school district or board of directors of a
public school academy shall not require a pupil or a pupil's parent
or legal guardian to pay fees or costs in excess of the actual
amounts owed for meals previously served to the pupil.
(i) The board of a school district or board of directors of a
public school academy shall not take or allow any disciplinary
action against a pupil that results in a delay or denial of a
nutritionally adequate meal for the pupil.
(j) The board of a school district or board of directors of a
public school academy shall not require a pupil to dispose of a
meal after it has been served because the pupil is unable to pay
for the meal or owes a meal debt.
(k) If a pupil's school meal account reaches a negative
balance, the board of a school district or board of directors of a
public school academy shall notify the pupil's parent or legal
guardian of the negative balance not later than 10 days after the
school meal account reaches a negative balance.
(2) In all school meal programs established and operated under
section 1272a, the department shall take all steps necessary to
ensure maximum state and local control over the implementation of
the programs, including, but not limited to, establishing an upper
limit on the number and frequency of fund-raising activities that
may take place in a public school during school hours that allow
the sale of food or beverage items that do not meet the nutritional
standards. The department shall ensure that this upper limit is not
less than 2 fund-raising activities per week. For the purposes of
this upper limit, an ongoing fund-raising activity that is
scheduled to take place at more than 1 time during a school day or
throughout the school day shall be considered to be a single fund-
raising activity.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
