1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to education; providing for a pilot program
1.3 	for paying the additional cost of school breakfast and
1.4 	lunch special diets based on religious beliefs of
1.5 	students; appropriating money.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. SPECIAL DIET BREAKFAST AND LUNCH PILOT
1.8 	PROGRAM; SCHOOL BREAKFAST AND LUNCH AID.
 1.9 	A two-year special diet breakfast and lunch pilot program
1.10 	is established for the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 school years to
1.11 	pay the additional cost of school breakfast and lunch that is a
1.12 	special diet based on a student's religious beliefs.  A school
1.13 	with at least 20 percent of its students in average daily
1.14 	membership during the 2004-2005 school year receiving full paid,
1.15 	reduced, and free breakfast, lunch, or both that is a special
1.16 	diet based on the religious beliefs of the student is eligible
1.17 	to participate in this program.  The state must pay a
1.18 	participating district the amount necessary to pay any
1.19 	additional cost for each full paid, reduced, and free student
1.20 	breakfast and lunch that is a special diet based on the
1.21 	student's religious beliefs and served to the student in the
1.22 	district.  This section expires July 1, 2007.

1.23 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION.
 1.24 		Subdivision 1.Department of education. The sums
1.25 	indicated in this section are appropriated from the general fund
2.1 	to the Department of Education for the fiscal years designated.
2.2 		Subd. 2.Special diet school breakfast and lunch. For
2.3 	special diet school breakfast and lunch under section 1:
2.4 	$   60,000 .....2006 
2.5 	$   60,000 .....2007 
2.6 	If the appropriation amount attributable to either year is
2.7 	insufficient, the rate of payment for each student special diet
2.8 	breakfast and lunch shall be reduced and the aid for that year
2.9 	shall be prorated among participating schools so as not to
2.10 	exceed the total authorized appropriation for that year.  Any
2.11 	balance in the first year does not cancel but is available in
2.12 	the second year.