Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman PAMELA R. LAMPITT
District 6 (Burlington and Camden)
Assemblyman JAMEL C. HOLLEY
District 20 (Union)
Assemblywoman GABRIELA M. MOSQUERA
District 4 (Camden and Gloucester)
Assemblyman TROY SINGLETON
District 7 (Burlington)
Assemblyman BENJIE E. WIMBERLY
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblyman Coughlin
SYNOPSIS
Directs Department of Agriculture in consultation with DOE to establish online applications for National School Lunch Program and school breakfast programs.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Senate Education Committee on November 30, 2017, with amendments.
An Act concerning online applications for the National School Lunch Program and school breakfast programs, amending P.L.2003, c.4, and supplementing Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 3 of P.L.2003, c.4 (C.18A:33-11) is amended to read as follows:
3. In implementing a school breakfast program [this act] under P.L.2003, c.4 (C.18A:33-9 et seq.), a school district shall:
a. publicize the availability of the school breakfast program to parents and students;
b. make every effort to make available the Internet-based application developed by the 1Department of Agriculture, in consultation with the1 Department of Education 1,1 for school meal applications pursuant to section 2 of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the legislature as this bill);
c. make every effort to ensure that income-eligible students are not recognized as program participants by the student body, faculty, or staff in a manner distinct from student participants who are not income-eligible. Such efforts shall include, but not be limited to, the establishment of a meal plan or voucher system under which students receiving subsidized breakfasts are not distinguished from students receiving non-subsidized breakfasts; and
[c.] d. make every effort to encourage students who are not income-eligible to participate in the program.
(cf: P.L.2003, c.4, s.3)
2. (New section) a. The 1Department of Agriculture, in consultation with the1 Department of Education 1,1 shall develop and make available to each school district and nonprofit nonpublic school participating in the National School Lunch Program or in a school breakfast program, an Internet-based school meal application.
b. A school district or nonprofit nonpublic school participating in the National School Lunch Program or in a school breakfast program may implement the Internet-based school meal application developed pursuant to subsection a. of this section. If a school district or nonprofit nonpublic school implements the Internet-based school meal application, it shall also continue to make available paper applications for enrollment in the National School Lunch Program or in a school breakfast program.
c. If a school district or nonprofit nonpublic school currently provides an Internet-based school meal application for enrollment in the National School Lunch Program or in a school breakfast program, the school district or nonprofit nonpublic school shall have one year from 1[dates] the date1 of enactment of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this act) to switch to the Internet-based school meal application developed 1[by the Department of Education] pursuant to subsection a. of this section1.
d. As used in this section, “school meal application” means an Internet-based application designed for the online enrollment of eligible students in the National School Lunch Program or in a school breakfast program.
3. This act shall take effect immediately.