Bill Summaries: H892 (2017-2018 Session)

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  • Bill H 892 (2017-2018)
    Summary date: Apr 25 2017 - View summary

    Appropriates $5 million in recurring funds from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction for 2017-18 to provide lunch at no cost to any student eligible for reduced-price lunch. Sets out the process for allocating the funds.

    Enacts new GS 115C-264.5 prohibiting public schools from publicly identifying or stigmatizing a student who cannot pay for a meal or who owes a meal debt, with requiring the student wear a wristband or hand stamp listed as an example of such prohibited conduct; or requiring a student who cannot pay for a meal or who owes a meal debt to do chores or other work to pay for meals, unless chores or other work are required of all students regardless of meal debt. Requires a school to direct communications about a student's meal debt to a parent or guardian and not the student. 

    Effective July 1, 2017, and applies beginning with the 2017-18 school year.
    Education, Elementary and Secondary Education, Government, Budget/Appropriations, State Agencies, Department of Public Instruction
    APPROP, GS 115C

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