A. Each district board of education shall ensure that students in elementary schools do not have access to foods of minimal nutritional value except on special occasions.
B. Each district board of education shall ensure that students in middle and junior high schools do not have access to foods of minimal nutritional value except after school, at events which take place in the evening, and on special occasions. The only exception to the minimal nutritional value standard will be diet soda with less than ten (10) calories per bottle or can.
C. Each district board of education shall ensure that students in high schools are provided healthy food options in addition to any foods of minimal nutritional value to which they may have access at school. Each district shall provide incentives, such as lower prices or other incentives, to encourage healthy food choices for high school students.
D. For purposes of this section, “foods of minimal nutritional value” means any foods so defined in 7 CFR 210.11 and listed in Appendix B of the regulations for the National School Lunch Program.
E. The State Board of Education shall adopt rules to implement the provisions of this section.
Added by Laws 2005, c. 45, § 1, eff. July 1, 2007.
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