§ 925. Community eligibility provision state subsidy. Notwithstanding
any provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, in the two
thousand twenty-three--two thousand twenty-four school year and
thereafter, for each breakfast and lunch meal that is served at a school
participating in the federal community eligibility provision program and
that is reimbursed at the federal reimbursement rate for a paid meal,
the department shall reimburse the school food authority the difference
between (1) the combined state and federal reimbursement rate for a paid
meal for the current school year and (2) the combined state and federal
reimbursement rate for a free meal for the current school year, provided
that the total reimbursement rate for each meal served shall equal the
combined state and federal reimbursement rate for a free meal for the
current school year.