HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

992

TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to student meals.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 302A-404, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§302A-404  School meals.  (a)  School meals shall be made available under the school meals program in every school where the students are required to eat meals at school.

     (b)  No student shall be denied a meal solely for failure to pay:

     (1)  Within the first thirty days of the first semester of a school year while the student's application for free or reduced lunch is being processed; or

     (2)  Within one week following a student's meal fund account reaching a zero or negative balance.

     (c)  The department may adopt rules or policies governing the collection of funds for student meal accounts with a negative fund balance; provided that no rule or policy shall prohibit feeding a student as required pursuant to subsection (b)."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2017.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Department of Education; Meals; Students

 

Description:

Prohibits denying a student a meal for the first:  (1) 30 days of the first semester of a school year while the student's application for free or reduced lunch is being processed; or (2) week that the student's meal fund balance is zero or negative.  Authorizes the Department of Education to adopt rules or policies on the collection of funds for negative student meal balances.

 

 

 

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