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SNAPa Members Recognized As Experts
in School Nutrition
Three SNAPa members have recently been
invited to give testimony to legislators about proposed food
service bills. Lee Ann Hocker from Susquehanna Township
School District and Barbara Nissel from Great Valley School
District appeared before House Education Committee on May 2
to testify on HB 908, which supports the Governors Initiative
for a breakfast mandate and increased funding levels tied to
the PDE nutrition standards. Bud Heller was asked to testify
in Washington about the success of the Fruit and Vegetable
pilot program. View their educational testimony by clicking
on the links below.
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School Nutrition Association of
Pennsylvania
Long-Range Legislative Agenda
I.
Meals at reasonable charge to students
SNAPa will
advocate that all children receive nutritionally adequate meals
at a reasonable charge to the child at the point of service
provided through Child Nutrition Programs and funded through a
combination of resources, which will include contributions from
federal, state, local, and family.
II.
Access
SNAPa
will initiate and support collaborative efforts and legislation
to eliminate barriers to participation in Child Nutrition
Programs.
III.
Funding SNAPa will initiate and support legislation and
collaborative efforts among federal, state and local entities to
ensure that funding is available for quality child nutrition
programs to support health development and education of
children.
IV.
Agriculture SNAPa will support America's agriculture
community in its efforts to supply Child Nutrition Programs with
a safe and nutritious food supply that is provided to schools
through flexible and efficient procurement and delivery systems.
V.
Competition
SNAPa will
advocate for change in state and federal regulations laws and
policies that will safeguard the health of students and maintain
financial stability in the school's Child Nutrition Programs by
authorizing only the food service program to sell food during the
regularly scheduled meal periods.
VI.
Regulations
SNAPa
will advocate regulations at the federal mid state levels that
are written and revised periodically, or as needed, with
stakeholder involvement, including SNAPa.
VII.
Nutrition, Food and Education
SNAPa
will initiate and support collaborative efforts including federal
funding to Child Nutrition Programs to ensure a comprehensive
coordinated nutrition education program in schools.
VIII.
Nutrition Integrity
SNAPa
will support collaborative efforts to continue to educate
stakeholders of Child Nutrition Programs on the issues of
nutrition integrity.
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