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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Requires school districts to provide school meals or meal vouchers to students eligible for free and reduced price school meals during school closures due to COVID-19 epidemic."
+description: "Requires school districts to provide school meals or meal vouchers to students eligible for free and reduced price school meals during school closures due to COVID-19 epidemic."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nj"
+legislature: "New Jersey Legislature"
+session: "219"
+identifier: "A 3840"
+citation: "New Jersey A 3840 (219)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ED HEALTH", "FOOD", "SCH BOARDS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cunningham, Sandra B.", "Dunn, Aura K.", "Lampitt, Pamela R.", "Quijano, Annette", "Ruiz, M. Teresa"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 8
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-03-16T04:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2020-03-20T04:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd856222-d0e4-4867-a0d6-f4cfba0a745d"
+source_url: "http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/downloads.asp"
+source_hash: "0e0bba94603d281fedb966043b1215d58d64814146ec2f2d56aa99a6045c20b1"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nj"]
+---
+
+# New Jersey A 3840 (219) — Requires school districts to provide school meals or meal vouchers to students eligible for free and reduced price school meals during school closures due to COVID-19 epidemic.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2020/Bills/A4000/3840_I1.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported favorably out of committee — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3RDG FINAL PASSAGE — **65–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3RDG FINAL PASSAGE — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cunningham, Sandra B. — primary (person)
+- Dunn, Aura K. — primary (person)
+- Lampitt, Pamela R. — primary (person)
+- Quijano, Annette — primary (person)
+- Ruiz, M. Teresa — primary (person)
+- Addiego, Dawn Marie — cosponsor (person)
+- Brown, Chris A. — cosponsor (person)
+- Carter, Linda S. — cosponsor (person)
+- Chiaravalloti, Nicholas — cosponsor (person)
+- Cruz-Perez, Nilsa I. — cosponsor (person)
+- Holley, Jamel C. — cosponsor (person)
+- Jasey, Mila M. — cosponsor (person)
+- Kean, Thomas H. — cosponsor (person)
+- Pou, Nellie — cosponsor (person)
+- Scutari, Nicholas P. — cosponsor (person)
+- Singer, Robert W. — cosponsor (person)
+- Singleton, Troy — cosponsor (person)
+- Spearman, William W. — cosponsor (person)
+- Speight, Shanique — cosponsor (person)
+- Stack, Brian P. — cosponsor (person)
+- Timberlake, Britnee N. — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner, Shirley K. — cosponsor (person)
+- Wimberly, Benjie E. — cosponsor (person)
+- Zwicker, Andrew — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** Introduced in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Homeland Security and State Preparedness Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading `committee-passage`
+- **2020-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** Emergency Resolution (63-0-0) (Greenwald)
+- **2020-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Assembly (65-0-0) `passage`
+- **2020-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** Received in the Senate without Reference, 2nd Reading
+- **2020-03-19T04:00:00+00:00** Substituted for S2281
+- **2020-03-19T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Senate (Passed Both Houses) (34-0) `passage`
+- **2020-03-20T04:00:00+00:00** Approved P.L.2020, c.6. `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bd856222-d0e4-4867-a0d6-f4cfba0a745d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Jersey legislature records).
+