The Senate Education and Health Committee met and considered the following piece of legislation of interest to school boards in Virginia:
HB 5113 (Roem) Certain school boards; student meals; participation in the Community Eligibility Provision. Requires each school board that governs a local school division that contains any public elementary or secondary school that is eligible to participate in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to apply to FNS to participate in CEP for each such school. The bill provides that the Superintendent for Public Instruction shall issue a waiver to this requirement upon determination that participation in CEP is not financially viable for a school or group of schools. The Department of Education shall develop a process and criteria for evaluating such waiver requests. This bill was reported by a unanimous vote of the committee.
