REFERENCE TITLE: students; unpaid school meal fees |
        State of Arizona Senate Fifty-fifth Legislature First Regular Session 2021     |
SB 1623 |
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Introduced by Senator Quezada   |
 
AN ACT
 
AMENDING Title 15, chapter 1, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 15-120.01; relating to school meals.
 
 
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section  1. Title 15, chapter 1, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 15-120.01, to read:
START_STATUTE15-120.01. School meals; unpaid fees; nutrition standards
A. A local education agency shall ensure that a student whose parent or guardian has not paid the student's school meal fees is not shamed, treated differently or served a meal that differs from what a student who does not have unpaid school meal fees receives under that local education agency's policy.   This subsection does not prohibit a school from serving an alternative meal to a student who requires a special meal for a dietary or religious reason.
B. School personnel and volunteers at a local education agency that serves meals that meet the nutrition standards prescribed in section 15-242 to students during the instructional day may not take disciplinary action against a student that results in the denial or delay of a meal that meets the nutrition standards prescribed in section 15-242. END_STATUTE