Connecticut § 10-215h - Child nutrition outreach program.

§ 10-215h. Child nutrition outreach program.

Sec. 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.

(P.A. 10-133, S. 6; P.A. 16-163, S. 28; P.A. 24-82, S. 3.)

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; P.A. 24-82 amended Subsec. (a) to require Department of Education to collaborate with Office of Early Childhood and Subsec. (b)(3) to require sharing of relevant data between department and office, effective July 1, 2024.

See Sec. 4-165c re immunity of the state and its officials, employees and agents.