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Maine
School meal applications: data submitted online is not visible to the Department of Education
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Obligation class
- Access restriction, Prohibition
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are the Maine Department of Education, make sure data submitted through an Internet-based application for free or reduced-price school meals is not visible to the department and is transmitted directly to the applicable public school or other agency making the determination of a student's eligibility (20-A M.R.S. 6601-A).
- If you are a Maine public school, process your school's online school meal applications, accept data submitted through an Internet-based application and continue to distribute paper applications for school meals to all students (20-A M.R.S. 6601-A).
- If you are the Maine Department of Education and you develop an Internet-based school meal application, make it available in an understandable and uniform format and, to the maximum extent practicable, in a language that parents and legal guardians can understand (20-A M.R.S. 6601-A).
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What record it asks for
Logging duty
Section 6601-A keeps data submitted through an Internet-based school meal application out of the Department of Education's view and sends it to the school or agency that determines eligibility. It names no log or register that must be kept, so no logging duty is coded.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Data submitted through an Internet-based application for free or reduced-price school meals may not be visible to the Department of Education and must be transmitted directly to the applicable public school or other agency making the determination of a student's eligibility for free or reduced-price meals. A public school is responsible for processing that school's online applications. All public schools must accept data submitted through an Internet-based application.
All public schools must continue to distribute paper applications for school meals to all students. The Department of Education may contract for the development and implementation of an Internet-based application for free or reduced-price meals under the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program, or otherwise make available to public schools an Internet-based application for those programs.
The department must make any Internet-based application developed under the section in an understandable and uniform format and, to the maximum extent practicable, in a language that parents and legal guardians can understand. Public Law 2021, chapter 212 amended the section to provide that data submitted through the Internet-based application may not be visible to the department and must be transmitted directly to the applicable public school.
Public Law 2021, chapter 212 was passed at the First Special Session of the 130th Legislature. The Laws of Maine give as the general effective date of nonemergency laws passed at the First Special Session of the 130th Legislature. Public Law 2025, chapter 717 amended the section. The Laws of Maine give as the general effective date of nonemergency laws passed at the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature.
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