A BILL for an Act to create and enact two new sections to chapter 15.1-07 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to offering school breakfast and lunch at no cost and the school meals fund; to provide an appropriation; to provide for a transfer; and to provide an effective date.

Summary

The bill would require public, charter, nonpublic, tribal, and Bureau of Indian Education schools to offer one breakfast and one lunch each day at no cost to students or their families. The state would reimburse schools for the difference between federal reimbursement rates and actual federal payments, funded by a newly created School Meals Fund. It also earmarks $65 million for the program and sets an effective date of July 1 2026.

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