Fiscal impact reports (FIRs) are prepared by the Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) for standing finance

committees of the NM Legislature. The LFC does not assume responsibility for the accuracy of these reports

if they are used for other purposes.

Current FIRs (in HTML & Adobe PDF formats) are a vailable on the NM Legislative Website (legis.state.nm.us).

Adobe PDF versions include all attachments, whereas HTML versions may not. Previously issued FIRs and

attachments may be obtained from the LFC in Suite 101 of the State Capitol Building North.

F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR King

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

1/27/08

HJM 26

SHORT TITLE Declaring February 1, 2008 As "School Nutrition Day" SB

ANALYST Shaya

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY08

FY09

NFI

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Joint Memorial 26 declares Friday, February 1, 2008, "School Nutrition Day" in the New

Mexico Legislature.

The Memorial provides the following statements about the national school lunch program and

the national school breakfast programs:

•

School nutrition programs provided through the national school lunch program and the

national school breakfast program have provided millions of healthy and nutritious meals

to children across New Mexico for more than sixty years; and

•

School nutrition programs play an important role in helping to ensure that every student

in New Mexico starts school ready to learn because a hungry or undernourished child is

less likely to be an eager and attentive student; and

•

School nutrition programs have demonstrated a commitment in New Mexico to promote

children's health, well-being and educational excellence, a primary goal of student

success; and

•

In New Mexico, two hundred three public, private and bureau of Indian affairs schools

serve more than one hundred ninety-seven thousand lunches and one hundred two

thousand breakfast meals each school day; and

House Joint Memorial 26 – Page

2

•

New Mexico is ranked number one in students participating in school breakfast programs

in the United States;

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

No fiscal impact.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

Many children do not eat a nutritious breakfast every morning. Often families are living on very

tight budgets and can't afford to provide good breakfasts at home every day nor the money to buy

them at school. Regardless of income, families today live busy lives that often make it difficult to

sit down long enough in the morning to eat a nutritious breakfast. Sometimes children are not

physically capable of eating breakfast at home when they first wake up. Other children may have

long commutes to school or long periods between breakfast at home and school lunch, making

breakfast at school an important option. The National School Lunch Program provides school

children with one-third or more of their Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for key

nutrients. These lunches are required to provide no more than 30 percent of calories from fat and

less than 10 percent from saturated fat. USDA research indicates that children who participate in

School Lunch have superior nutritional intakes compared to those who do not participate.

WHAT WILL BE THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT ENACTING THIS BILL

Friday, February 1, 2008, will not be set aside in the he New Mexico Legislature, "School

Nutrition Day".

RS/bb