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Relating to the therapeutic classroom incentive program by authorizing the expenditure of moneys for certain nutritional items
Sponsored by the House Education Committee, Rep. Jeff Shipley (R)
Topics:K–12 educationHealth care
Same legislation: HF 114
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 23, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 30, 2025
- Done: House committeeFebruary 18, 2025
- Done: Passes the HouseMarch 18, 202566–32
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2026 session adjourned on May 3, 2026, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary School districts participating in the therapeutic classroom incentive program could use grant money to provide certain nutritional supports for students. This includes offering whole foods and vitamins, limiting artificial food additives, and assessing students' nutritional needs. The program also allows for initiatives like increasing exposure to natural light to help improve student health.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to the therapeutic classroom incentive program by authorizing the expenditure of moneys for certain nutritional items. The therapeutic classroom incentive program, administered by the department of education, provides competitive grants to school districts to establish classrooms that are designed for the purpose of providing support for any student whose emotional, social, or behavioral needs interfere with the student’s ability to be successful in the current educational environment, with or without supports, until the student is able to successfully return to the student’s current education environment, with or without supports, including the general education classroom. The bill provides that the support provided by a therapeutic classroom may include supporting student access to micronutrients and vitamins, assessing the macro-nutritional needs of students, providing minimally processed whole foods, restricting the use and availability of certain artificial or synthetic food additives, remediating the negative impacts of excessive use of digital screens, increasing student exposure to natural light or the light emitted by full spectrum lighting fixtures, and carrying out any other scientifically supported initiative that a school district reasonably believes will improve student health.
Senate subcommittee
Named March 26, 2025. On April 1, 2025 it recommended amendment and passage.
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