Bill Text: TX HB296 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to breakfast for certain public school students.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-08 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB296 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB296-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Rodriguez of Travis, Miles, Alvarado | H.B. No. 296 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 296: | |||
| By: Deshotel | C.S.H.B. No. 296 | ||
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| relating to breakfast for certain public school students. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 33.901, Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 33.901. BREAKFAST PROGRAMS. (a) If at least 10 | ||
| percent of the students enrolled in one or more schools in a school | ||
| district or enrolled in an open-enrollment charter school are | ||
| eligible for free or reduced-price breakfasts under the national | ||
| school breakfast program provided for by the Child Nutrition Act of | ||
| 1966 (42 U.S.C. Section 1773), the board of trustees of the school | ||
| district or the governing body of [ |
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| open-enrollment charter school shall participate in the program and | ||
| make the benefits of the program available to all eligible students | ||
| in the schools or school. | ||
| (b) A school district campus or an open-enrollment charter | ||
| school participating in the national school breakfast program | ||
| provided by the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. Section 1773) | ||
| in which 80 percent or more of the students qualify for a free or | ||
| reduced-price breakfast shall offer a free breakfast to each | ||
| student. | ||
| (c) The commissioner shall grant a waiver of the free | ||
| breakfast requirements under Subsection (b), not to exceed one | ||
| year, to a school district campus or an open-enrollment charter | ||
| school if the board of trustees of the school district or the | ||
| governing body of the open-enrollment charter school votes to | ||
| request the waiver at the annual meeting of the board of trustees | ||
| required under Section 44.004 or an annual meeting of the governing | ||
| body called to adopt a budget for the open-enrollment charter | ||
| school for the succeeding fiscal year. Before voting to request a | ||
| waiver under this subsection, the board of trustees or the | ||
| governing body shall list the waiver as a separate item for | ||
| consideration on the meeting's agenda and provide an opportunity | ||
| for public comment regarding the waiver at the meeting. | ||
| SECTION 2. It is the intent of the legislature that the | ||
| change in law made by Section 33.901, Education Code, as amended by | ||
| this Act, does not change or expand the eligibility requirements | ||
| under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. Section 1773). A | ||
| student who qualifies for a free or reduced-price breakfast under | ||
| federal law continues to qualify and a student who does not qualify | ||
| for a free or reduced-price breakfast does not qualify as a result | ||
| of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act does not make an appropriation or | ||
| require a specific appropriation. Any new duty imposed on a state | ||
| agency as a result of this Act can be performed through the | ||
| appropriations provided by the legislature and any federal funding. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2014-2015 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 5. 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, 2013. | ||
