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2017 House Bill 1508: Promoting student health and readiness through meal and nutrition programs
Introduced by Rep. Monica Jurado Stonier (Vancouver) (D) on January 23, 2017
Referred to the House Education Committee on January 23, 2017
Amendment offered in the House on February 9, 2017
Requires qualifying high-needs schools, beginning in the 2018-19 school year, to offer breakfast after the bell (BAB) programs to students after the beginning of the school day.
Referred to the House Appropriations Committee on February 14, 2017
Substitute offered in the House on February 23, 2017
Establishes the Washington kids ready to learn act of
2017.
Requires each high-needs school to offer breakfast after
the bell to each student and provide adequate time for students to consume the food.
Requires the superintendent of public instruction to administer one-time start-up allocation grants to each high- needs school implementing a breakfast after the bell program.
Creates the breakfast after the bell lighthouse project to promote best practices for breakfast after the bell programs.
Referred to the House Rules Committee on February 28, 2017
Amendment offered by Rep. Mike Steele (Chelan) (R) on March 2, 2017
Emoves provisions requiring the elimination of lunch copays for qualifying students in prekindergarten through grade 12 and associated intent language.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on March 2, 2017
Amendment offered by Rep. Drew Stokesbary (Auburn) (R) on March 2, 2017
Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee (JLARC) to conduct an analysis of breakfast after the bell (BAB) programs established in accordance with the underlying legislation.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on March 2, 2017
Amendment offered by Rep. Drew Stokesbary (Auburn) (R) on March 2, 2017
Removes the breakfast after the bel lighthouse project proposed in the underlying bill..
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on March 2, 2017
Amendment offered by Rep. Mike Steele (Chelan) (R) on March 2, 2017
Replaces provisions in the underlying bill authorizing the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
(OSPI) and school districts, to the extent that funds are appropriated for this purpose, to coordinate with the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) to promote and facilitate new
and existing farm-to-school initiatives and small and direct marketing farm programs in school districts..
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on March 2, 2017
Received in the Senate on March 7, 2017
Referred to the Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education Committee on March 7, 2017
Amendment offered in the Senate on March 27, 2017
Removes the requirement that breakfast items served in a BAB program contain less than 25 percent, by weight, added sugar. Requires the OSPI to develop and distribute best practices and provide technical assistance on strategies for selecting food items that are low in added sugar by December 1, 2017. States that student consumption of BAB is not part of the definition or funding of the program of basic education in the definition of instructional hours..
Referred to the Senate Ways & Means Committee on March 28, 2017
Referred to the Senate Rules Committee on April 4, 2017
Referred to the House Rules Committee on April 23, 2017
Received in the House on April 24, 2017
Received in the Senate on May 5, 2017
Referred to the Senate Ways & Means Committee on May 5, 2017
Referred to the House Rules Committee on May 23, 2017
Received in the House on May 23, 2017
Received in the House on June 21, 2017
Referred to the House Rules Committee on June 21, 2017
Amendment offered by Rep. Monica Jurado Stonier (Vancouver) (D) on January 10, 2018
Removes provisions making the act null and void if funding for the act is not provided in the omnibus appropriations act by June 30, 2017, and advances all applicable calendar and school year date references by one year.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on January 10, 2018
Received in the Senate on January 12, 2018
Referred to the Senate Ways & Means Committee on January 12, 2018
Referred to the Senate Rules Committee on January 26, 2018
Amendment offered in the Senate on January 31, 2018
Clarifies that breakfast after the bell programs, including the provision of breakfast, is not intended to be included within the definition or funding of the program of basic education under Article IX of the state Constitution.
Includes this language within the definition of instructional hours.
Removes the requirement that breakfast items served in a breakfast after the bell program contain less than 25 percent, by weight, added sugar.
Requires the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop and distribute best practices and provide technical assistance on strategies for selecting food items that are low in added sugar by December 1, 2018.
Removes the word "organic" to describe gardens, which is a type of innovative school-based program that may receive a grant.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the Senate on January 31, 2018
Received in the House on February 19, 2018
House concurred in Senate Amendments..
Signed by Gov. Jay Inslee on March 7, 2018