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 01/27/25 - Introduced

 SB-225 School nutrition: guardian meal reimbursement.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 02/27/2025 09:00 PM

SB225:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 February 27, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 225

Introduced by Senator McNerney

January 27, 2025

 An act to amend add Section 17010 of the Revenue and Taxation 49549 to the Education Code, relating to taxation. school nutrition.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 225, as amended, McNerney.
 Personal income taxes. School nutrition: guardian meal reimbursement.

Existing law requires each school district, county superintendent of schools, and charter school to make available a nutritionally adequate breakfast, as defined, and a nutritionally adequate lunch, as defined, free of charge during each schoolday to any pupil who requests a meal, without consideration of the pupil’s eligibility for a federally funded free or reduced-price meal, as provided. Existing law defines “schoolday” for these purposes to mean any day that pupils in kindergarten or grades 1 to 12, inclusive, are present at a schoolsite for purposes of instruction or educational activities, including, among other things, pupil attendance at summer school, including incoming kindergarten pupils, as provided.

This bill would, contingent upon an appropriation
 for its purposes and to the extent authorized by federal law, require the State Department of Education to establish a process for state reimbursement, adjusted annually for inflation, for federal summer meal program operators, as defined, for meals served to guardians of eligible pupils receiving a meal pursuant to a summer meal program, as provided. The bill would require the department to develop related guidance, as specified, and, if necessary, to apply for a waiver of federal law to secure federal reimbursement for these meals. The bill would require the department to distribute information about the federal Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children Program to guardians whose children are eligible for specified summer food programs. The bill would require a guardian of an eligible pupil to be present at the summer meal program site in order for the summer meal program operator to receive state-funded reimbursement for that meal, unless noncongregate rules are in place. The bill would require
 summer meal program operators receiving state-funded reimbursement to report to the department the number of meals served to guardians by meal site no later than 30 days after the end of summer meal site operations.

The Personal Income Tax Law imposes taxes on income and provides definitions of specified terms for purposes of that law, including a definition for “taxable year.”

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 NOYES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 49549 is added to the Education Code, immediately following Section 49548.3, to read:

49549.

 (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, and to the extent authorized by federal law, the department shall establish a process for state reimbursement, adjusted annually for inflation, for federal summer meal program operators for meals served to guardians of eligible pupils receiving a meal pursuant to a summer meal program.

(2) A guardian of an eligible pupil shall be present at the summer meal program site in order for the summer meal program operator to receive state-funded reimbursement for the meal served to a guardian pursuant to this section, unless noncongregate rules are in place.

(3) Reimbursement under this section shall commence no earlier than
 one year after an appropriation is made for its purposes.

(b) The department shall develop guidance for summer meal program operators participating in the federal Seamless Summer Option or the federal Summer Food Service Program on how to serve guardians a meal at summer meal program sites. The guidance shall be posted on the department’s internet website and shall not be required to be mailed.

(c) The department shall distribute information about the Summer Electronic Benefits Tr