Section 10-215h - Child nutrition outreach program(a) The Department of Education shall administer, within available appropriations and in collaboration with the Office of Early Childhood, 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, including, but not limited to, through the sharing of relevant data between the department and the office; and(4) Publicize the availability of federally funded child nutrition programs throughout the state.Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-215h
( P.A. 10-133 , S. 6 ; P.A. 16-163 , S. 28 .)
Amended by P.A. 24-0082,S. 3 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2024 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2024.Amended by P.A. 16-0163, S. 28 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2016 Regular Session, eff. 6/9/2016.Added by P.A. 10-0133, S. 6 of the February 2010 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2010. See Sec. 4-165c re immunity of the state and its officials, employees and agents.