New Jersey Law Requires Notification Schedule on Delinquent Student Meal Accounts

New Jersey schools can no longer refuse to serve students breakfast or lunch, no matter how delinquent their payment accounts are, without first notifying parents, reports NJ.com. A new law, signed on Feb. 5th by Gov. Chris Christie after it passed by both houses of the state legislature, requires districts to give a student's parent or guardian notice when a student's account balance goes into deliquency, and parents must then be given 10 school days to pay the amount due. If they don't, a second notice is sent informing them that meals will not be served beginning one week from the date of second notice if payment is not received.