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Bill Text

A1492 

ASSEMBLY, No. 1492 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman ROY FREIMAN

District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)

Assemblywoman TENNILLE R. MCCOY

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Assemblywoman MITCHELLE DRULIS

District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Sauickie, Assemblywoman Dunn, Assemblyman 
Miller, Assemblywomen Katz, Haider, Morales, Assemblymen Spearman, Karabinchak, 
Assemblywomen Peterpaul, Murphy, Assemblyman Bailey, Assemblywoman Swain, 
Assemblyman Tully and Assemblywoman Sweeney

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires Secretary of Agriculture to establish Farm 
to School Local Food Procurement Reimbursement Grant Program to reimburse 
school districts for costs expended in sourcing and procuring local foods for 
students; appropriates $4,500,000.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act concerning the procurement of local food products by 
school districts, supplementing Title 4 of the Revised Statutes, and making an 
appropriation.� 

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� As used in this act:

���� �Baseline levels� or 
�baselines� means the baseline levels identified by a school district pursuant 
to paragraph (5) of subsection c. of section 2 of this act.

���� �Department� means the 
Department of Agriculture.

���� �Eligible costs� means the 
actual, documented costs, which are reimbursable with program grant funds, as 
provided by subsection f. of section 2 of this act, and which are expended by 
an eligible school district, by a participating partner school, or by a school 
food authority operating in the district, in order to implement or undertake 
the expanded or modified local food procurement policies, practices, standards, 
processes, systems, or activities described in the district�s proposed local 
food procurement plan, submitted pursuant to paragraph (5) of subsection c. of 
section 2 of this act.

���� �Eligible school district� or 
�eligible district� means a school district in which all participating partner 
schools provide subsidized school meals to students who are eligible therefor, 
and which school district timely submits an attestation form, pursuant to 
subsection c. of section 2 of this act and in accordance with any relevant 
attestation deadlines established by the secretary for the program year, as 
necessary to obtain a pro rata share of reimbursement grant funding annually 
appropriated, deposited into the Farm to School Local Food Procurement 
Reimbursement Fund, and dedicated for program purposes.

���� �Expanded or modified local 
food procurement policies, standards, processes, systems, or activities� means 
those policies, standards, processes, systems, or activities, described in an 
attestation form submitted pursuant to subsection c. of section 2 of this act, 
which are being newly implemented or undertaken, in an eligible school district 
or in partner schools therein, specifically in order to increase, above current 
levels, the total number or type of local foods being procured for students in 
the district, the meal periods during which such local foods are served to 
students in the district, or the total number or type of students in the 
district who are being provided with access to such local foods, during either 
the school year or the summer months, or both.

���� �Federal School Breakfast 
Program� means the same as that term is defined in section 1 of P.L.2022, c.104 
(C.18A:33-3.2).

���� �Ineligible costs� means any 
costs that do not constitute eligible costs for the purposes of the Farm to 
School Local Food Procurement Reimbursement Grant Program, including, but not 
limited to, any costs incurred, by a school or school district, in the sourcing 
or purchasing of fluid dairy milk, or in association with the district�s 
ordinary, unexpanded sourcing and procurement of local food products at or 
below the baseline levels identified in the� attestation form submitted 
pursuant to subsection c. of section 2 of this act.

���� �Local food� or �local food 
product� means any raw, whole, or minimally processed fruit, vegetable, herb, 
meat, seafood, legume, or grain that is 100 percent grown, raised, or caught in 
the State or in State waters, regardless of the where the distributor of such 
food is located.� �Local food� or �local food product� includes New Jersey 
canned tomatoes, but does not include fluid dairy milk.

���� �Local Food for Schools 
Cooperative Agreement Program� means the federal program, established and 
administered by the Agricultural Management Service in the United States 
Department of Agriculture, pursuant to which the Agricultural Management 
Service is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements, with individual 
states, in order to provide such states wit