00                      CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 213(FIN)                                                                   
01 "An Act providing for funding for school lunch and breakfast."                                                          
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 14.03 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                  
04            Sec. 14.03.127. State funding for school lunch and breakfast. (a) To                                       
05       supplement the cost of lunch and breakfast provided to each student who is eligible for                           
06       a free or reduced-price lunch under 42 U.S.C. 1771 - 1784, in addition to public school                           
07       funding and subject to appropriation, the department shall provide funding to a school                            
08       district for lunch and for breakfast to each eligible student. To implement this                                  
09       subsection, the department shall provide a base amount of 15 cents for each lunch or                              
10       35 cents for each breakfast, to which amount the department shall add an additional                               
11       amount, expressed in cents and not applied as a cost factor, that is determined by                                
12                 (1)  reducing the applicable district cost factor provided in                                           
13       AS 14.17.460 by 1.0; and                                                                                          
14                 (2)  dividing the remainder determined under (1) of this subsection by                                  
15       four; the department shall round to the nearest cent a quotient that is not a whole                               

01       number.                                                                                                           
02            (b)  Beginning July 1, 2011, the base amount under (a) of this section shall be                              
03       adjusted annually on October 1 according to changes in the Consumer Price Index for                               
04       all urban consumers for the Anchorage metropolitan area compiled by the United                                    
05       States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. The index for 2009 is the                                 
06       reference base index for an adjustment made under this subsection.                                                
07            (c)  In this section, "district" has the meaning given in AS 14.17.990.