New Jersey S 1083: Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.

Bill Text

S1083 

SENATE, No. 1083 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator NILSA I. CRUZ-PEREZ

District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)

Senator SHIRLEY K. TURNER

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires school meal service providers, when 
procuring local and regional foods for students, to give purchasing preference 
to foods produced by in-State farmers and other food producers located within 
100 miles of destination school.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning the procurement and distribution of local foods for school meal program purposes, 
amending P.L.2022, c.104, and supplementing chapter 33 of Title 18A of the 
Revised Statutes.

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

���� 1.��� Section 1 of P.L.2022, 
c.104 (C.18A:33-3.2) is amended to read as follows:

���� 1.��� As used in this chapter:

���� "Categorically 
eligible" means that a student is homeless, is a migrant child, is a 
runaway child, is a foster child, or is a Head Start child, as defined in 7 
C.F.R. Part 245, or is receiving assistance under the Supplemental Nutrition 
Assistance Program (SNAP), the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program 
(TANF), the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), or, to 
the extent that the United States Department of Agriculture authorizes the 
matching of Medicaid data to identify children who are eligible for free school 
meals, is a participant in the Medicaid program, and which student, by virtue 
of such status, is automatically eligible to be certified to receive free 
school meals under the National School Lunch Program or the federal School 
Breakfast Program, without first submitting an application or being subject to 
the federal income verification requirements established by 7 C.F.R. Part 245.

���� "Community Eligibility 
Provision" means a type of special assistance alternative, identified at 7 
C.F.R. Part 245, pursuant to which the United States Department of Agriculture 
provides reimbursement for free school meals that are provided by eligible, 
high-poverty local educational agencies and schools that participate in both 
the National School Lunch Program and the federal School Breakfast Program.

���� "Eligible student" 
means a student who is categorically eligible or income-eligible for one or 
more subsidized school meals.

���� "Emergency meals 
distribution program" means a program, established under section 1 of 
P.L.2020, c.6 (C.18A:33-27.2), pursuant to which a school district is required 
to provide subsidized school meals to eligible students, through designated distribution 
sites, during any period in which a school in the district is subject to a 
public health-related closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

���� "Federal School Breakfast 
Program" means the federal reimbursement program, established under the 
"Child Nutrition Act of 1966," 42 U.S.C. s.1771 et seq., pursuant to 
which the United States Department of Agriculture is authorized to provide 
grants-in-aid and other assistance to the States, as may be necessary to help 
finance the establishment, maintenance, operation, and expansion of school 
breakfast programs and facilitate the provision of free and reduced price 
breakfasts to eligible students.

���� "Federally eligible for 
free or reduced price meals" or "federally eligible" means that 
a student is categorically eligible for free lunch under the National School 
Lunch Program or for free breakfast under the federal School Breakfast Program, 
or that the student satisfies federal income eligibility requirements, adopted 
by the United States Department of Agriculture pursuant to 7 C.F.R. Part 245, 
as is necessary to federally qualify for and receive free or reduced price 
lunch under the National School Lunch Program or free or reduced price 
breakfast under the federal School Breakfast Program.

���� "Federally ineligible for 
free or reduced price meals" or "federally ineligible" means 
that a student is not categorically eligible for, and fails to satisfy federal 
income eligibility requirements, adopted by the United States Department of 
Agriculture pursuant to 7 C.F.R. Part 245, as is necessary for the student to 
federally qualify for and receive free or reduced price lunch under the 
National School Lunch Program or free or reduced price breakfast under the 
federal School Breakfast Program.

���� �Food service management company� 
means a commercial enterprise or a nonprofit organization that is or may be contracted 
by a school food authority to manage the daily provision of school meals, or 
any other aspect of a school meal service that is provided, to students at one 
or more participating schools in the State.

���� �Geographic preference 
requirements� means the purchase preference requirements, established pur