Florida Senate - 2023                             CS for SB 1376
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Agriculture; and Senator Rodriguez
       
       
       
       
       
       575-02799-23                                          20231376c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to school nutrition program
    3         requirements; amending s. 595.405, F.S.; requiring
    4         school districts, upon the request of a certain
    5         student or his or her parent or guardian, to provide
    6         certain alternative meals and snacks to students;
    7         providing cost requirements for such meals and snacks;
    8         authorizing that such request be made at the beginning
    9         of each semester; requiring school districts to
   10         publish information about such alternative snacks and
   11         meals on their websites; providing an effective date.
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   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   15         Section 1. Subsection (9) is added to section 595.405,
   16  Florida Statutes, to read:
   17         595.405 School nutrition program requirements.—
   18         (9) Upon the request of a student who is eligible for free
   19  or reduced-price meals or snacks under the National School Lunch
   20  Program or any other program, or upon the request of his or her
   21  parent or guardian, a school district must provide the student
   22  with a plant-based, kosher, or halal meal or snack that complies
   23  with federal nutrition mandates at the same cost to the student
   24  as a non-plant-based, non-kosher, or non-halal meal or snack.
   25  The request by such student or his or her parent or guardian for
   26  an alternative meal or snack may be made at the beginning of
   27  each semester. Each school district must publish information
   28  about meal and snack alternatives on its website.
   29         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.