Bill Text: TX SB725 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the donation and distribution of food at public schools.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective immediately [SB725 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB725-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 725 | ||
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| relating to the donation and distribution of food at 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 33.907 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 33.907. DONATION OF FOOD. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Donate" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
| 76.001, Civil Practice and Remedies Code. | ||
| (2) "Nonprofit organization" has the meaning assigned | ||
| by Section 76.001, Civil Practice and Remedies Code. | ||
| (b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may | ||
| allow a campus to elect to donate food to a nonprofit organization | ||
| through an official of the nonprofit organization who is directly | ||
| affiliated with the campus, including a teacher, counselor, or | ||
| parent of a student enrolled at the campus. The donated food may be | ||
| received, stored, and distributed on the campus. Food donated by | ||
| the campus may include: | ||
| (1) surplus food prepared for breakfast, lunch, or | ||
| dinner meals or a snack to be served at the campus cafeteria, | ||
| subject to any applicable local, state, and federal requirements; | ||
| or | ||
| (2) food donated to the campus as the result of a food | ||
| drive or similar event. | ||
| (c) The type of food donated under this section may include: | ||
| (1) packaged or unpackaged unserved food; | ||
| (2) packaged served food if the packaging is in good | ||
| condition; | ||
| (3) whole, uncut produce; | ||
| (4) wrapped raw produce; and | ||
| (5) unpeeled fruit required to be peeled before | ||
| consumption. | ||
| (d) Food donated under this section to a nonprofit | ||
| organization may be distributed at the campus at any time. Campus | ||
| employees may assist in preparing and distributing the food as | ||
| volunteers for the nonprofit organization. | ||
| (e) Under this program, a school district or | ||
| open-enrollment charter school may adopt a policy under which the | ||
| district or charter school provides food at no cost to a student for | ||
| breakfast, lunch, or dinner meals or a snack if the student is | ||
| unable to purchase breakfast, lunch, or dinner meals or a snack. | ||
| (f) The commissioner may adopt rules as necessary to | ||
| implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
| 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, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 725 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that | ||
| the Senate concurred in House amendments on May 25, 2017, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 725 passed the House, with | ||
| amendments, on May 20, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 133, | ||
| Nays 0, three present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
