The board of trustees of a school district that allows students to use a prepaid meal card or account to purchase meals served at schools in the district shall adopt a grace period policy regarding the use of the cards or accounts. The policy:

1. (1) must allow a student whose meal card or account balance is exhausted or insufficient to continue, for a period determined by the board, to purchase meals by:

   1. (A) accumulating a negative balance on the student's card or account; or
   2. (B) otherwise receiving an extension of credit from the district;
2. (2) must require the district to notify the parent of or person standing in parental relation to the student that the student's meal card or account balance is exhausted;
3. (3) may not permit the district to charge a fee or interest in connection with meals purchased under Subdivision (1); and
4. (4) may permit the district to set a schedule for repayment on the account balance as part of the notice to the parent or person standing in parental relation to the student.

Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 875 (H.B. 3562), Sec. 1, eff. June 18, 2015.

Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 925 (S.B. 1566), Sec. 12, eff. September 1, 2017.