Rutgers Law

New Jersey Statutes, Title: 18A, EDUCATION

    Chapter 33: District to furnish suitable facilities; adoption of courses of study

      Section: 18A:33-24: Implementation of Summer Food Service Program.

          1. a. Every school district in which 50 percent or more of the students enrolled in the school district on or before the last school day before October 16 of the preceding school year were federally eligible for free or reduced price meals under the National School Lunch Program or the federal School Breakfast Program, shall:

(1) become a sponsor or site under the federal Summer Food Service Program; or

(2) apply for a waiver pursuant to section 3 of P.L.2018, c.28 (C.18A:33-26).

b. No later than one year after the date of enactment of P.L.2018, c.28 (C.18A:33-24 et seq.), a school district that is required to become a sponsor or site under the Summer Food Service Program, pursuant to subsection a. of this section, shall submit, to the Department of Agriculture, either an application to become a sponsor of the federal Summer Food Service Program or documentation showing that the school district will become a site under an existing and approved sponsor.

c. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2022, c.104)

d. A school district that is subject to the requirements of this section shall become a sponsor of the federal Summer Food Service Program or a site under an existing and approved sponsor, no later than two years following the date of enactment of this section.

L.2018, c.28, s.1; amended 2022, c.104, s.18.

This section added to the Rutgers Database: 2022-09-23 16:20:36.

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