Outline of the state of Hawaii
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Hawaii
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Category
Unpaid Meal Charge Policy—Restricts Access

Category
Unpaid Meal Charge Policy—Restricts Access

State law establishes a policy regarding unpaid meals charges that allows schools to overtly identify students and/or deny meals.

Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-404 School meals.

(b) No student shall be denied a meal solely for failure to pay:

  • (1) Within the first twenty-one days of the first semester of a school year while the student's application for free or reduced lunch is being processed; or
  • (2) Within seven days after a student's meal fund account reaches a zero or negative balance.

(c) The department may adopt rules or policies governing the collection of funds for student meal accounts with a negative fund balance; provided that no rule or policy shall prohibit feeding a student as required pursuant to subsection (b).

Policy Type
Statute