This bill requests the Rhode Island Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education to prepare a report on the school meal debt policy for all Rhode Island school districts and charter schools. The report should include the rules regarding how schools handle students' meal debt, such as the withholding of privileges or diplomas, and the total amount of meal debt accrued in the 2022-2023 and 2018-2019 school years. It specifies that the report should not contain personally identifying information and should detail end-of-year balances before any bad debt is written off, including the amount of school meal debt that Local Education Agencies (LEAs) were able to write off using federal funding through the USDA provision.
The bill sets a deadline for the submission of this report to the Rhode Island House of Representatives Finance Committee by January 30, 2025. Additionally, it instructs the Secretary of State to transmit a certified copy of the resolution to Angélica Infante-Green, the Rhode Island Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education. There are no insertions or deletions indicated in the provided text, as it appears to be a standalone resolution rather than an amendment to existing law.