New Jersey A 4754: Allows voter who received mail-in ballot to cancel ballot and be issued new one not less than 7 days before election.

Bill Text

A4754 

ASSEMBLY, No. 4754 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MARCH 19, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman� ALEX SAUICKIE

District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)

Assemblywoman� SHAMA A. HAIDER

District 37 (Bergen)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires Departments of Agriculture and Education to 
cooperatively implement new �Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food� initiative to 
promote and facilitate increased procurement and use of local and regional 
foods for school meals program purposes. 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� As introduced.

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An Act concerning the procurement of local and regional 
foods, food products, and ingredients for school meals program purposes, 
amending P.L.2022, c.104, and supplementing chapter 33 of Title 18A of the New 
Jersey 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 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.

���� "Income-eligible" 
means that a student either satisfies federal income eligibility requirements, 
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