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2023 SESSION
23-0341.0
10/08
HOUSE BILL [bill number]
AN ACT requiring the offering of breakfast and lunch in all public and chartered public schools.
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires school districts and chartered public schools to offer both breakfast and lunch programs to students.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
23-0341.0
10/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three
AN ACT requiring the offering of breakfast and lunch in all public and chartered public schools.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Schools; Food and Nutrition Programs. Amend RSA 189:11-a, I to read as follows:
I. Each school board shall make [at least one meal] breakfast and lunch available during school hours to every pupil under its jurisdiction. Such meals shall be served without cost or at a reduced cost to any child who meets federal income eligibility guidelines. The state board of education shall ensure compliance with this section and shall establish minimum nutritional standards for such meals as well as income guidelines set for the family size used in determining eligibility for free and reduced price meals. [Nothing in this section shall prohibit the operation of both a breakfast and lunch program in the same school.]
2 Schools; Food and Nutrition Programs. Amend RSA 189:11-a, VII(a) to read as follows:
VII.(a) Each school district [which participates] shall participate in the National School Breakfast Program and each school district shall maintain annual statistics on the number of breakfast meals served to pupils.
3 New Section; Chartered Public Schools; School Meals. Amend RSA 194-B by inserting after section 3-a the following new section:
194-B:3-b Required School Breakfast and Lunch Programs. All chartered public schools shall comply with the school breakfast and lunch requirements under RSA 189:11-a.