BILL NUMBER: AB 1819	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ammiano

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2012

   An act to amend Section 49557 of the Education Code, relating to
school meals.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1819, as introduced, Ammiano. School meals: free or
reduced-priced meals.
   Existing law requires each school district and county
superintendent of schools maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1
to 12, inclusive, to provide for each needy pupil one nutritionally
adequate free or reduced-price meal during each schoolday. Existing
law requires the governing board of a school district and the county
superintendent of schools to make applications for free or
reduced-price meals available to students at all times during each
regular schoolday. Existing law also requires the governing board of
each school district and county superintendent of schools to
formulate a plan that, among other things, will ensure that children
eligible to receive free or reduced-priced meals and milk shall not
be treated differently than other children.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these 2 latter
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 49557 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   49557.  (a)  (1)    The governing board of a
school district and the county superintendent of schools shall make
applications for free or  reduced price  
reduced-   price  meals available to  students
  pupils  at all times during each regular
schoolday. The application shall contain, in at least 8-point
boldface type, each of the following statements: 
   (1) 
    (A)  Applications for free and  reduced price
  reduced-   price  meals may be submitted
at any time during a schoolday. 
   (2) 
    (B)  Children participating in the National School Lunch
Program will not be overtly identified by the use of special tokens,
special tickets, special serving lines, separate entrances, separate
dining areas, or by any other means. 
    A 
    (2)     A  school district and the
county superintendent of schools shall use all other applications it
has for free or  reduced price   reduced- 
 price  meals before utilizing the applications pursuant to
this subdivision.
   (b) The governing board of each school district and each county
superintendent of schools shall formulate a plan, which shall be
mailed to the  State Department of Education  
department  for its approval, that will ensure that children
eligible to receive free or  reduced priced 
reduced   -price  meals and milk shall not be treated
differently from other children. These plans shall ensure each of the
following:
   (1) Unless otherwise specified, the names of the children shall
not be published, posted, or announced in any manner, or used for any
other purpose other than the National School Lunch Program.
   (2) There shall be no overt identification of any of the children
by the use of special tokens or tickets or by any other means.
   (3) The children shall not be required to work for their meals or
milk.
   (4) The children shall not be required to use a separate dining
area, go through a separate serving line, enter the dining area
through a separate entrance, or consume their meals or milk at a
different time.
   (c) When more than one lunch or breakfast or type of milk is
offered pursuant to this article, the children shall have the same
choice of meals or milk that is available to those children who pay
the full price for their meal or milk.