Montgomery County Public Schools - Jane E. Lawton Local Food Procurement MC 7-26

HB 936 requires Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) to track and publicly report how much money they spend buying food from certified local farms and certified providers of invasive fish species from the Chesapeake Bay during the 2026-2027 school year, publishing this data by September 1, 2027. It also mandates MCPS to set annual targets for increasing this spending for future school years (2028-2037), using the 2026-2027 data as a baseline. MCPS must develop a plan with input from the Office of Food Systems Resilience and the public to meet these targets. The bill directly affects MCPS, local farms, and Chesapeake Bay invasive species providers by changing how school food procurement is measured and reported.