BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 626 (Skinner and Lowenthal)
As Amended July 10, 2013
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: |72-3 |(May 28, 2013) |SENATE: |39-0 |(September 9, |
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Original Committee Reference: ED.
SUMMARY : Makes changes to school nutrition requirements, as
specified.
The Senate amendments :
1)Specify that the California Department of Education (CDE), in
selecting grantees to participate in the 21st Century High
School After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens program,
shall consider the inclusion of a nutritional snack, meal, or
both.
2)Delete the provision requiring a minimum of 50% of the items,
other than reimbursed foods, offered for sale each school day
at any school site by any entity or organization during
regular school hours be selected from a specified list.
3)Delete the authorization for 2% milk to be sold in elementary,
middle and high schools.
4)Make non-substantive technical and conforming changes.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Senate Appropriations
Committee, the majority of the provisions of this bill make
changes to local authority and program requirements implemented
at the local level, for participating schools and school
districts. These changes are unlikely to drive any significant
new cost to the state. Those being changed to comply with
federal law could result in additional costs to school
districts, but are conditions of their participation in a
program for which they receive federal funding. Compliance
monitoring: Potentially significant increased staffing costs
(Federal Funds) for the CDE to provide program compliance
monitoring. See Senate Appropriations Committee's staff
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comments.
COMMENTS :
Federal Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 . This bill comes
at the same time as a major overhaul of federal nutrition
standards for the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). The
federal Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which was signed
into law by President Obama in December of 2010, makes the first
significant changes to the nutritional regulations over the NSLP
since 1995. In January 2012, the United States Department of
Agriculture released the Final Rule Nutrition Standards for the
National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs in
accordance with the new federal legislation. As part of the new
regulations, schools are required to serve food options that
align with meal patterns specifying acceptable quantities of
different types of food. The Institute of Medicine recently
identified such an approach as a method to increase the amount
of fruits and vegetables individuals eat while decreasing the
level of saturated fat, sodium and carbohydrates. As a result
of the new meal patterns, schools must provide students enough
servings of the appropriate food categories as required by the
Final Rule Nutrition Standards. This bill makes changes to
current state laws in order to comply with the new federal laws
and regulations set forth by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act
of 2010.
Federal Compliance and Code Clean-Up . This bill makes several
changes to bring California's school cafeteria and nutrition
laws into compliance with the recent changes in federal
nutrition regulations in addition to making several substantive
changes that are not specifically related to the federal
compliance issues. The compliance changes include those
involving the co-mingling of cafeteria fund accounts and those
specifying that cafeteria funds cannot be used to purchase land
or otherwise modernize cafeteria buildings. Existing law
authorizes the sale of specified beverages from 30 minutes
before the start of the school day until 30 minutes after the
end of the school day. This measure specifies that only food
items that meet the state and federal nutrition standards may
also be sold from 30 minutes before the start of the school day
until 30 minutes after the end of the school day. The bill also
specifies that if food sales are at least 30 minutes after the
end of the school day, students do not need to sell the food to
comply. The bill also authorizes afterschool programs to serve
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meals in addition to snacks, and specifies that those meals must
meet specified nutrition requirements. Further the bill makes
several changes to the law to clean up duplicative and obsolete
code sections. The measure deletes references to a school
nutrition pilot program that was previously funded and ended in
2004. Lastly the bill specifies that school nutrition programs
shall be monitored by the California Department of Education
(CDE) in conformity with the United States Department of
Agriculture's administrative review process.
Analysis Prepared by : Chelsea Kelley / ED. / (916) 319-2087
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