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(3) raise awareness of services currently offered on |
campus that address basic food needs; and |
(4) continue to build strategic partnerships at the |
federal, State, and local levels to address food |
insecurity among students. |
(c) In order to be designated as a hunger-free campus by |
the Board, a public institution of higher education shall: |
(1) establish a hunger task force that meets a minimum |
of 3 times per academic year to set at least 2 goals with |
action plans and that includes representatives from the |
student body; |
(2) designate a staff member responsible for assisting |
students with enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition |
Assistance Program (SNAP); |
(3) provide options for students to utilize SNAP |
benefits at campus stores or provide students with |
information on establishments in the surrounding area of |
campus where they can utilize SNAP benefits; |
(4) participate in an awareness day campaign activity |
and plan a campus awareness event during the national |
Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week; |
(5) provide at least one physical food pantry on |
campus or enable students to receive food through a |
separate, stigma-free arrangement with a local food pantry |
or food bank near campus; |
(6) develop a student meal credit donation program or |
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designate a certain amount of money for free meal vouchers |
for students; and |
(7) annually conduct a student survey on hunger, |
developed by the Board, and submit the results of the |
survey to the Board at a time prescribed by the Board for |
inclusion in a comparative profile of each campus |
designated as a hunger-free campus. Survey data on student |
hunger shall be disaggregated by race, gender identity, |
sexual orientation, parenting status, and financial aid |
status of students. In the development of the survey, the |
Board may utilize any existing surveys designed to collect |
information on food insecurity among students enrolled in |
public institutions of higher education. |
(d) The Board shall allocate grant funding to each public |
institution of higher education that has one or more campuses |
designated by the Board as a hunger-free campus under |
subsection (c). The Board shall determine the amount of each |
grant that shall be used by the public institution of higher |
education to further address food insecurity among students |
enrolled in the public institution of higher education. The |
Board shall prioritize grants to public institutions of higher |
education with campuses that serve primarily minority and |
low-income students and have a high percentage of Pell Grant |
recipients. |
(e) The Board shall submit a report to the Governor and to |
the General Assembly no later than 2 years after the |
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establishment of the hunger-free campus grant program. The |
report shall include, but not be limited to, the number and |
amount of the grant awards, the impact the hunger-free campus |
grant program has on establishing additional hunger-free |
campuses at public institutions of higher education and |
reducing the number of students experiencing food insecurity, |
disaggregated data on those students served reflecting the |
students' race, gender identity, sexual orientation, parenting |
status, and financial aid status, and recommendations on the |
expansion of the hunger-free campus grant program. |
(f) The Hunger-Free Campus Grant Fund is created as a |
special fund in the State treasury. All money in the Fund shall |
be used, subject to appropriation, by the Board for the |
hunger-free campus grant program. |
(g) The Board may adopt any rules necessary to implement |
this Section.
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
becoming law.
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