(a) The reimbursement a school receives for free and reduced-price meals sold or served to pupils in elementary, middle, or high schools included within a school district, charter school, or county office of education shall be twenty-three and six one thousandths cents ($0.2306) per meal, and, for meals served in child care centers and homes, the reimbursement shall be seventeen and seventeen hundredths cents ($0.1717) per meal.
(b) To qualify for the reimbursement for free and reduced-price meals provided to pupils in elementary, middle, or high schools, a school shall follow the United States Department of Agriculture meal pattern.
(c) The reimbursement rates set forth in this section shall be adjusted annually for increases in cost of living in the same manner set forth in Section 42238.1.
(Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 15, Sec. 45. (AB 99) Effective June 27, 2017.)
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