Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 18A:33-24

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Department: means the State Department of Education. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:1-1
  • District: means a school district. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:1-1
  • Federally eligible for free or reduced price meals: 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. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:33-3.2
  • National School Lunch Program: means the federal reimbursement program established under the "Richard B. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:33-3.2
  • School breakfast program: means a program that is established and operated by a public or nonpublic school, in accordance with the requirements of the federal School Breakfast Program and, in the case of a public school, in accordance with a plan adopted pursuant to section 2 of P. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:33-3.2
  • Summer Food Service Program: means the federal reimbursement program, established under 42 U. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:33-3.2
1. a. Every school district in which 50 percent or more of the students enrolled in the school district on or before the last school day before October 16 of the preceding school year were federally eligible for free or reduced price meals under the National School Lunch Program or the federal School Breakfast Program, shall:

(1) become a sponsor or site under the federal Summer Food Service Program; or

(2) apply for a waiver pursuant to section 3 of P.L.2018, c.28 (C. 18A:33-26).

b. No later than one year after the date of enactment of P.L.2018, c.28 (C. 18A:33-24 et seq.), a school district that is required to become a sponsor or site under the Summer Food Service Program, pursuant to subsection a. of this section, shall submit, to the Department of Agriculture, either an application to become a sponsor of the federal Summer Food Service Program or documentation showing that the school district will become a site under an existing and approved sponsor.

c. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2022, c.104)

d. A school district that is subject to the requirements of this section shall become a sponsor of the federal Summer Food Service Program or a site under an existing and approved sponsor, no later than two years following the date of enactment of this section.

L.2018, c.28, s.1; amended 2022, c.104, s.18.

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