Florida Senate - 2022                                    SB 1656
       
       
        
       By Senator Rodriguez
       
       
       
       
       
       39-01633-22                                           20221656__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to school breakfast programs; amending
    3         s. 595.405, F.S.; requiring the Department of
    4         Agriculture and Consumer Services to reimburse
    5         sponsors for school breakfast meals that meet certain
    6         requirements; providing a basis for the calculation of
    7         the reimbursement; providing an effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Present subsections (6), (7), and (8) of section
   12  595.405, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (7),
   13  (8), and (9), respectively, and a new subsection (6) is added to
   14  that section, to read:
   15         595.405 School nutrition program requirements.—
   16         (6) To eliminate the reduced-price copayment for school
   17  breakfast meals, the department shall reimburse sponsors for
   18  each breakfast meal that meets federal School Breakfast Program
   19  requirements and department rules and is served to a student who
   20  is eligible for reduced-price meals. The reimbursement must be
   21  based on the greater of 30 cents or the difference between the
   22  United States Department of Agriculture reimbursement rate for a
   23  free breakfast meal and the reduced-price breakfast meal.
   24         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.