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2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 10 - Education and Culture
Chapter 169 - School Health and Sanitation
Section 10-215h - Child nutrition outreach program.

Universal Citation:
CT Gen Stat § 10-215h (2019)
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(a) The Department of Education shall administer, within available appropriations, a child nutrition outreach program to increase (1) participation in the federal School Breakfast Program, federal Summer Food Service Program and federal Child and Adult Care Food Program; and (2) federal reimbursement for such programs.

(b) The child nutrition outreach program shall:

(1) Encourage schools to (A) participate in the federal School Breakfast Program; (B) employ innovative breakfast service methods where students eat their breakfast in their classrooms or elsewhere after school starts, rather than only before school and only in the cafeteria; and (C) apply to the in-classroom breakfast grant program pursuant to section 10-215g;

(2) (A) Encourage local and regional school districts to sponsor Summer Food Service Program sites; (B) recruit other sponsors of such sites; and (C) make grants to site sponsors to assist them in increasing child participation;

(3) Encourage child care centers, group child care homes and family child care homes, as such terms are described in section 19a-77, to participate in the Child and Adult Care Food Program; and

(4) Publicize the availability of federally funded child nutrition programs throughout the state.

(P.A. 10-133, S. 6; P.A. 16-163, S. 28.)

History: P.A. 10-133 effective July 1, 2010; P.A. 16-163 amended Subsec. (b)(3) by replacing “day care centers” with “child care centers, group child care homes and family child care homes, as such terms are described in section 19a-77,”, effective June 9, 2016.

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