TITLE: Relating to requiring certain public school campuses to donate and distribute food to students.

SUMMARY: Relating to requiring certain public school campuses to donate and distribute food to students.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to requiring certain public school campuses to donate and distribute food to students. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 33.907, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsections (b-1) and (b-2) to read as follows: (b-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (b) and except as provided by Subsection (b-2), a school district or open-enrollment charter school shall require a campus in which 70 percent or more of the students attending the campus are eligible for enrollment in the national school lunch program of free or reduced-price lunches to donate food to a nonprofit organization to be distributed to students at the campus as provided by this section. (b-2) A school district subject to Subsection (b-1) is not required to donate food to a nonprofit organization if the campus: (1) does not have a significant amount of surplus food to donate as determined by the district; or (2) donates food to an alternative program operated to address hunger issues in the district in which the campus is located. SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 school year. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.