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2023 SESSION
23-0373.0
10/04
HOUSE BILL [bill number]
AN ACT relative to eligibility for free school meals.
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ANALYSIS
This bill increases the eligibility for free school meals to household incomes up to 300 percent of federal poverty guidelines.
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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
23-0373.0
10/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three
AN ACT relative to eligibility for free school meals.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Schools; Food and Nutrition Programs; School Lunch Eligibility. Amend RSA 189:11-a, I to read as follows:
I. Each school board shall make at least one meal available during school hours to every pupil under its jurisdiction. Such meals shall be served without cost to any child whose annual household income is less than or equal to 300 percent of the federal poverty guidelines as updated annually in the Federal Register by the United States Department of Health and Human Services under 42 U.S.C. section 9902(2), 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 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.