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2014 Florida Statutes

Title XXXV AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND ANIMAL INDUSTRY
Chapter 595 SCHOOL FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICES Entire Chapter
SECTION 405
Program requirements for school districts and sponsors.
F.S. 595.405
595.405 Program requirements for school districts and sponsors.—
(1) Each school district shall consider the recommendations of the district school superintendent and adopt policies to provide for an appropriate food and nutrition service program for students consistent with federal law and department rules.
(2) Each school district shall implement school breakfast programs that make breakfast meals available to all students in each elementary school. Universal school breakfast programs shall be offered in schools in which 80 percent or more of the students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Each school shall, to the maximum extent practicable, make breakfast meals available to students at an alternative site location, which may include, but need not be limited to, alternative breakfast options as described in publications of the Food and Nutrition Service of the United States Department of Agriculture for the federal School Breakfast Program.
(3) Each school district must annually set prices for breakfast meals at rates that, combined with federal reimbursements and state allocations, are sufficient to defray costs of school breakfast programs without requiring allocations from the district’s operating funds, except if the district school board approves lower rates.
(4) Each school district is encouraged to provide universal, free school breakfast meals to all students in each elementary, middle, and high school. Each school district shall approve or disapprove a policy, after receiving public testimony concerning the proposed policy at two or more regular meetings, which makes universal, free school breakfast meals available to all students in each elementary, middle, and high school in which 80 percent or more of the students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
(5) Each elementary, middle, and high school shall make a breakfast meal available if a student arrives at school on the bus less than 15 minutes before the first bell rings and shall allow the student at least 15 minutes to eat the breakfast.
(6) Each school district shall annually provide to all students in each elementary, middle, and high school information prepared by the district’s food service administration regarding its school breakfast programs. The information shall be communicated through school announcements and written notices sent to all parents.
(7) A school district may operate a breakfast program providing for food preparation at the school site or in central locations with distribution to designated satellite schools or any combination thereof.
(8) Each sponsor shall complete all corrective action plans required by the department or a federal agency to be in compliance with the program.
History.—s. 271, ch. 2002-387; s. 1, ch. 2008-190; s. 16, ch. 2009-59; s. 5, ch. 2011-217; s. 32, ch. 2013-226.
Note.—Former s. 1006.06; s. 570.981(1)-(5).