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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 — **60** (pass) · lower
- 3RDG FINAL PASSAGE — **650** (pass) · lower
- 3RDG FINAL PASSAGE — **340** (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).