Section 7-703 - Suspension and reimbursement.

§ 7-703. Suspension and reimbursement.
 

(a)  Suspension.- The free and reduced price breakfast program under this subtitle shall be suspended if the per meal reimbursement that the federal government provides for the breakfast program is: 

(1) Reduced below the rate prescribed on July 1, 1979; or 

(2) Adjusted by the Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture, as of the most recent July 1 under the national Child Nutrition Act, and the per meal reimbursement is below the adjusted rate. 

(b)  Reimbursement.- The reimbursement for each meal under subsection (a) of this section shall be determined as follows: 

(1) Multiply the number of reduced price breakfasts served statewide times the federal reimbursement rate for those breakfasts; 

(2) Multiply the number of free breakfasts served statewide times the federal reimbursement rate for those breakfasts; and 

(3) Divide the total of paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection by the total number of free and reduced price breakfasts. 
 

[1980, ch. 836; 1981, ch. 31; 1984, ch. 90; 1990, ch. 488; 1996, ch. 10, § 16; 1999, chs. 384, 385.]