                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SCHOOL BREAKFAST PROGRAMS (§ 22.1-207.3)

A. Upon the appropriation and authorization of federal funds for the
reimbursement of school breakfast programs, each school board shall establish a
school breakfast program in any public school in which 25 percent or more of
enrolled school-age children were approved eligible to receive free or reduced
price meals in the federally funded lunch program during the previous school
year.

B. The Board shall promulgate regulations for the implementation of the program.
Such regulations shall include, but not be limited to, criteria for eligibility
and exemptions; a reporting system for the compilation and analysis of
information concerning the number and socioeconomic characteristics of
participating school-age children; standards for food services; program
evaluation; the investigation of complaints; an appeals process; notification of
parents and guardians of the availability of the school breakfast program; and
provision to teachers, children, and their parents or guardians of nutrition
information describing the relationship between good nutrition, learning, and
health.

C. Each school board subject to the provisions of this section shall develop and
implement a plan to ensure compliance with the provisions of subsection A and
submit the plan to the Department no later than 30 days prior to the
commencement of the program. Each school board shall annually report such
information as required in subsection B to the Department on such forms and in
the manner to be prescribed by the Board. In the event that federal funding for
school breakfast programs is reduced or eliminated, a school board may support
the program with such state or local funds as may be appropriated for such
purposes.

HISTORY: 1993, c. 698; 2022, c. 355.