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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 458
BY SENATOR THOMPSON
SCHOOLS. Provides for the threshold allowed for small purchase procurements under food
and nutrition programs. (8/1/14)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 17:194(D), relative to the administration of nutrition program; to provide for2
simplified acquisition procedures; and to provide for related matters.3
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:4
Section 1. R.S. 17:194(D) is hereby enacted to read as follows:5
ยง194. Administration of nutrition program; general powers of governing authorities6
of nutrition program providers; funds for privately supplied programs for7
profit prohibited; exceptions8
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D. The state Department of Education and any governing authority of10
a nutrition program provider may use the simplified acquisition procedures for11
small purchases up to the Federal Small Purchase Threshold set by 41 U.S.C.12
403(11), in order to support procurement of local agricultural products and the13
USDA Farm to School initiatives. No such authority in this statute shall be in14
conflict with the federal United States Department of Agriculture child15
nutrition program requirements including 7 CFR 316.36(c )(2).16 SB NO. 458
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Alan Miller.
DIGEST
Thompson (SB 458)
Proposed law authorizes the state Department of Education and any governing authority of
a nutrition program provider to use the simplified acquisition procedures for small purchases
up to the Federal Small Purchase Threshold set by federal law, in order to support
procurement of local agricultural products and the USDA Farm to School initiatives. No
such authority in proposed law shall be in conflict with the federal USDA child nutrition
program requirements.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Adds R.S. 17:194(D))