H-1224

   Amend Senate File 494, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
   1.  By striking everything after the enacting clause and inserting: 
   <Section 1.  Section 267A.1, subsection 2, Code 2023, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
   NEW PARAGRAPH.  e.  Provide for the healthy development of this state’s students by supplying state schools with locally grown and processed, nutritionally adequate meals in accordance with guidelines established by the department of education pursuant to chapter 283A.
   Sec. 2.  Section 267A.3, subsection 2, paragraph b, Code 2023, is amended by adding the following new subparagraph:
   NEW SUBPARAGRAPH.  (8)  A representative of an organization with the primary purpose of promoting school nutrition in this state.
   Sec. 3.  Section 267A.3, subsection 2, Code 2023, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
   NEW PARAGRAPH.  c.  The director of the department of education or the director’s designee.
   Sec. 4.  NEW SECTION.  283A.12  School meal appropriation.
   1.  There is appropriated annually from the general fund of the state to the department of education an amount determined by the department necessary to provide breakfast and lunch to each student of a public school, including a charter school, or of an accredited nonpublic school whose family chooses to receive such meals for the student.
   2.  Moneys appropriated pursuant to this section shall be sufficient to procure food grown and processed in this state, or food grown and processed within thirty miles of this state for schools and accredited nonpublic schools in a county bordering another state, for the purpose of achieving goals of the local food and farm program established in section 267A.1.
   3.  Moneys appropriated pursuant to this section supplement funds appropriated under the federal National School Lunch Act and the federal Child Nutrition Act of 1966, 42 U.S.C. 
§1751 — 1785.
   4.  Any funds appropriated under this section that have not been used or encumbered by June 30 of each year shall revert back to the general fund of the state pursuant to section 8.33.>
   2.  Title page, line 1, by striking <assistance program oversight> and inserting <and nonpublic school meals, and making appropriations>

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EHLERT of Linn