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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 237A.12, subsection 3, Code 1995, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 3. The adequacy of activity programs and food services 1 4 available to the children. 1 5 a. If the cost of a child's care is paid in full or in 1 6 part by public funds, the rules shall require meals available 1 7 to the children to be nutritionally adequate. 1 8 b.The administratorIf the cost of the child's care is 1 9 not paid in full or in part by public funds, the rules shall 1 10 not restrict the use of or apply nutritional standards to a 1 11 lunch or other meal which is brought to the center or family 1 12 day care home by aschool-agechild for the child's 1 13 consumption. However, the rules shall require centers and 1 14 family day care homes to monitor lunches or other meals 1 15 brought by a child and to supplement those which are not 1 16 nutritionally adequate. In addition, if the center or family 1 17 day care home provider observes that the child regularly 1 18 brings a lunch or other meal which is not nutritionally 1 19 adequate, the rules shall require contact with the child's 1 20 parent or guardian to encourage improving the nutritional 1 21 content of the lunch or other meal. 1 22 EXPLANATION 1 23 This bill relates to department of human services' child 1 24 day care nutritional standards. Under current law, the 1 25 department's administrator for child day care regulation is 1 26 required to adopt rules for the adequacy of food services 1 27 available to children. The statute prohibits restricting or 1 28 applying nutritional standards to lunches or other meals 1 29 brought to child day care by a school-age child. The bill 1 30 modifies this prohibition to apply to a child of any age 1 31 unless the cost of the child's care is paid in full or in part 1 32 by public funds. However, the bill would require monitoring 1 33 of lunches or other meals and supplementing of those which are 1 34 not nutritionally adequate. In addition, if a child regularly 1 35 brings a meal which is not nutritionally adequate, the child 2 1 care provider must contact the parent to encourage improving 2 2 the nutritional content. 2 3 LSB 1083XS 76 2 4 jp/jj/8.1
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