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

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

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