Senate File 56 - Introduced



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  McCOY


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                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to guidelines for nutritionally adequate meals
  2    served by school districts, including establishing a goal for
  3    the use of Iowa=based products in school meal programs and a
  4    model nutrition plan for healthy children.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  6 TLSB 1696SS 82
  7 kh/gg/14

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 256.7, Code 2007, is amended by adding
  1  2 the following new subsection:
  1  3    NEW SUBSECTION.  27.  Adopt rules establishing guidelines
  1  4 for nutritionally adequate meals to be served by school
  1  5 districts.  The board shall set a goal, to be achieved not
  1  6 later than the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2012, of
  1  7 increasing to eighty percent the amount of Iowa=based products
  1  8 used in the school meal programs offered by school districts.
  1  9    Sec. 2.  Section 256.9, subsection 39, Code 2007, is
  1 10 amended to read as follows:
  1 11    39.  Provide educational resources and technical assistance
  1 12 to schools relating to the implementation of the nutritional
  1 13 guidelines for food and beverages sold on public school
  1 14 grounds or on the grounds of nonpublic schools receiving funds
  1 15 under section 283A.10.  In addition, the department shall
  1 16 prepare and make available to school districts a model
  1 17 low=carbohydrate healthy children nutrition plan for meal
  1 18 programs offered by school districts.
  1 19                           EXPLANATION
  1 20    This bill aims to improve school meal programs by directing
  1 21 the state board of education to adopt rules establishing
  1 22 guidelines for nutritionally adequate meals served by school
  1 23 districts and to set a goal to have 80 percent of a school
  1 24 district's meal program comprised of Iowa=based products in
  1 25 five years; and by directing the director of the department of
  1 26 education to make a model low=carbohydrate nutrition plan for
  1 27 healthy children available for use in school districts' school
  1 28 meal programs.
  1 29 LSB 1696SS 82
  1 30 kh:nh/gg/14.1