49-6-2302 - Establishment of nutritional breakfast and lunch programs. - Tennessee Statutes

49-6-2302. Establishment of nutritional breakfast and lunch programs.

(a)  Unless a waiver is granted pursuant to § 49-6-2303(10), and only to the extent federal funds are available for free or reduced price meals:

     (1)  Each school board shall establish a school lunch program in every school under its jurisdiction in accordance with rules and regulations established under § 49-6-2303; and

     (2)  Each school board shall establish a school breakfast program in the following schools based on the cumulative analysis of school lunch participation for the month of April of the preceding school year:

          (A)  Every school that contains kindergarten through grade eight (K-8) in which twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the students participated in the school lunch program at a free or reduced price; and

          (B)  In every school that does not contain a kindergarten through grade eight (K-8) in which forty percent (40%) or more of the students participated in the school lunch program at a free or reduced price.

(b)  Each LEA operating a school breakfast program pursuant to this part shall be reimbursed by the state for any additional expenses to that agency that are incurred as a result of implementation of this part.

(c)  The school breakfast program shall automatically terminate if federal funding for such program ceases.

[Acts 1986, ch. 904, § 2.]