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A bill for an act
relating to education; clarifying milk offerings for participants in the national
school lunch program; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 124D.114.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1.
Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 124D.114, is amended to read:
124D.114
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FLUID MILK;
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LACTOSE REDUCED MILK.
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Subdivision 1.
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Milk offerings.
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A national school lunch program participant or school
breakfast program participant must offer a variety of fluid milk. A school may offer options
that include flavored and unflavored organic or nonorganic whole, reduced-fat, low-fat, and
fat-free fluid milk and nondairy beverages that are nutritionally equivalent to fluid milk and
meet the nutritional standards established by the United States Secretary of Agriculture.
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Subd. 2.
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Lactose-reduced milk.
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(a) If a nonpublic school or district receives school
lunch aid under section
124D.111
or participates in the school breakfast program and receives
a written request from the parent of a pupil who is lactose intolerant, then the nonpublic
school or district must make available lactose reduced milk; milk fortified with lactase in
liquid, tablet, granular, or other form; or milk to which lactobacillus acidophilus has been
added for the pupil.
(b) Notwithstanding any law, local ordinance, or local regulation to the contrary, a school
may pour or serve portions of any product required by this section from a large container
of the product at the time and place the pupil is being served.