Changes To Local School Food Purchasing Program

For the local school food purchasing program, the act:

• Makes technical changes to when a local education provider may apply to the program and when the department of education (department) selects providers;
• Requires the department to ensure geographic and district pupil size diversity among providers;
• Changes the limit for the number of lunches that all local education providers provided in the prior year to 10 million;
• Changes the reimbursement formula to $0.05 for every meal that the local education provider provided in the previous year; and
• Specifies that if the department does not spend the full appropriation for the program, up to 5% of the appropriation is available to the department in the following year to pay for the required evaluation and report.
  (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)