Department of Social Services; school boards; SNAP benefits program parent information sheet; free or reduced price meals application. Requires the Department of Social Services to develop, annually update, and provide to each school board in advance of the start of each school year an information sheet on the SNAP benefits program that sets forth the application process and such other information as the Department deems necessary or appropriate in order to properly inform the parents of students enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools of such program and encourage application by those who are eligible. The bill requires each school board to ensure that such information sheet is sent home with each student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school in the local school division at the beginning of each school year or, in the case of any student who enrolls after the beginning of the school year, as soon as practicable after enrollment. The bill also requires each school board to ensure that a fillable free or reduced price meals application is sent home with each such student at the beginning of each school year or, in the case of any student who enrolls after the beginning of the school year, as soon as practicable after enrollment.

Statutes affected:
House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102018D: 22.1-79, 63.2-801
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2025ER): 22.1-79, 63.2-801
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0350): 22.1-79, 63.2-801