By: Gutierrez (Senate Sponsor - Van de Putte) H.B. No. 3429
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 2009;
May 1, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on
Agriculture and Rural Affairs; May 12, 2009, reported favorably by
the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 12, 2009, sent to
printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain program and reporting duties of the Texas
AgriLife Extension Service.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 88, Education Code, is amended by adding
Subchapter K to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER K. TEXAS AGRILIFE EXTENSION SERVICE
Sec. 88.821. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "extension
service" means the Texas AgriLife Extension Service.
Sec. 88.822. PROGRAM REPORTS. (a) The extension service
shall make a presentation to the commissioner of education, the
commissioner of agriculture, and the commissioner of the Department
of State Health Services and shall provide copies of reports to the
Texas Education Agency, the Department of Agriculture, and the
Department of State Health Services, and any council in which
representatives from all three of those agencies are members, on
the following programs:
(1) the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
(EFNEP), which provides nutrition education for economically
disadvantaged parents of young children;
(2) the Better Living for Texans (BLT) program, a
component of the national Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP), which provides education programs to food stamp
recipients, applicants, and other approved audiences to help
improve their ability to plan and prepare nutritious meals, stretch
food dollars, and prepare and store food safely; and
(3) other similar programs as determined by the
extension service.
(b) Not later than December 15 of each even-numbered year,
the extension service shall provide a copy of each report described
by Subsection (a) to the legislature.
(c) This section does not affect any other requirement for
the extension service to make a report to any state or federal
agency.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
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