BILL · 2019–20 SESSION

HB 1685: Free or reduced-price meals

Concerning free or reduced-price meals for students.

Summary

Makes various changes to the Hunger Free Students' Bill of Rights Act of 2018, including: (1) changing the timeline for school district actions on unpaid student meals; (2) allowing schools to serve qualifying alternative meals to students with insufficient funds if doing so does not publicly identify the student; and (3) allowing school districts to deny a student in grades 9 through 12 access to a meal or ala carte food item if the Legislature has not provided funding to school districts to reimburse the financial losses.
Directs the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, subject to available funding, to prepare a report on unpaid meal and food debts of students in the 2016-19 school years.

From the House Bill Report (HB 1685), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to supporting effective implementation of the hunger-free students' bill of rights act of 2018;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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HB 1685 (2017–18) Retired teachers as mentors · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1685 (2015–16) Washington food policy forum · Did not pass · passed House, stalled in Senate
HB 1685 (2013–14) Public utility tax · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1685 (2011–12) Water well construction · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1685 (2009–10) Small loan 60-day paymt plan · Did not pass · died in committee