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Committee amends and advances bill encouraging longer lunches and recess‑first scheduling
Summary
HB440 as substituted would ask school community councils to review lunch and recess policies, encourage a target of roughly 20 minutes for students to have seated eating time and promote recess before lunch; the committee adopted amendments and recommended the bill 7–5 after bipartisan debate about local control and reporting requirements.
Representative Auxier presented HB440, a first substitute that asks school community councils to review local lunch scheduling and develop plans to move toward evidence‑based mealtime practices — notably a target that students have approximately 20 minutes to eat and consideration of recess‑before‑lunch models.
The sponsor framed the bill as local problem‑solving: schools would meet annually to compare their policies with USBE guidance and local conditions and identify small changes — for…
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