1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to education finance; increasing the state reimbursement for reduced 
1.3 	price school lunch meals from 12 to 52 cents per meal; appropriating money;
1.4 	amending Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 124D.111, subdivision 1.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 124D.111, subdivision 1, is amended to 
1.7 	read:
1.8 		Subdivision 1.School lunch aid computation. (a) Each school year, the state 
1.9 	must pay participants in the national school lunch program the amount of 12 cents for 
1.10 	each full paid, reduced, and free student lunch served to students, and 52 cents for each 
1.11 	reduced price lunch.
1.12 	(b) A school that receives school lunch aid under this section must make lunch 
1.13 	available without charge to all participating students who qualify for free or reduced 
1.14 	price meals.

1.15 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective July 1, 2009.

1.16 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATIONS.
 1.17 		Subdivision 1.Department of Education. The sums indicated in this section are 
1.18 	appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Education for the fiscal years 
1.19 	designated.
1.20 		Subd. 2.School lunch aid. For school lunch aid under Minnesota Statutes, section 
1.21 	124D.111, and Code of Federal Regulations, title 7, section 210.17:

2.1		$
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	2010
	
2.2		$
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	2011