California Education Code

§ 49561

EDC § 49561 Effective Jan 1, 2018Div. 4 · Title 2 · Part 27 · Ch. 9 · Art. 11

Statute text

(a)The department shall create a computerized data matching system using existing databases from the department and the State Department of Health Care Services to directly certify recipients of CalFresh, the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program (the CalWORKs program) (Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), and other programs authorized for direct certification under federal law for enrollment in the federal National School Lunch Program and the federal School Breakfast Program.

(b)The department shall design a process using an existing agency database that will conform with data from the State Department of Health Care Services to meet the direct certification requirements of the federal National School Lunch Act, as amended, pursuant to Chapter 13 (commencing with Section 1751) of Title 42 of the United States Code, and the federal Child Nutrition Act of 1966, as amended, pursuant to Chapter 13A (commencing with Section 1771) of Title 42 of the United States Code.

(c)The department shall design a process using computerized data pursuant to subdivision (a) that will maximize enrollment in school meal programs and improve program integrity while ensuring that pupil privacy safeguards remain in place. The State Department of Health Care Services or the department shall conduct the data match of local school records to determine program eligibility, as required by federal law. Use of any data by the department in the data match process shall conform with the privacy and confidentiality protections identified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (d).

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 91, Sec. 1. (AB 1502) Effective January 1, 2018. Section conditionally operative as provided in subd. (f).