For the local school food purchasing program, the bill:
Makes technical changes to when a local education provider may apply to the program and when the department of education (department) selects providers;
Requires the department to ensure geographic and district pupil size diversity among providers;
Changes the limit for the number of lunches that all local education providers provided in the prior year to 10 million;
Changes the reimbursement formula to $0.05 for every meal that the local education provider provided in the previous year; and
Specifies that if the department does not spend the full appropriation for the program, up to 5% of the appropriation is available to the department in the following year to pay for the required evaluation and report. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

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Statutes affected:
Introduced (02/13/2020): 22-100-102
Engrossed (None): 22-100-102
Reengrossed (02/26/2020): 22-100-102
Revised (03/13/2020): 22-100-102
Rerevised (03/14/2020): 22-100-102
Final Act (None): 22-100-102
Signed Act (None): 22-100-102