By: Nelson S.B. No. 282
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to grant and outreach programs to provide nutrition
education to children.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 12, Agriculture Code, is amended by
adding Section 12.0027 to read as follows:
Sec. 12.0027. NUTRITION OUTREACH PROGRAM. (a) The
department may develop an outreach program to promote better health
and nutrition programs and prevent obesity among children in this
state.
(b) The department may solicit and accept gifts, grants, and
donations from any public or private sources for the purposes of
this section.
(c) The department may adopt rules as necessary to
administer an outreach program established under this section.
SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 38.026 to read as follows:
Sec. 38.026. GRANT PROGRAM FOR BEST PRACTICES IN NUTRITION
EDUCATION. (a) The Department of Agriculture shall develop a
program under which the department awards grants to public school
campuses for best practices in nutrition education.
(b) The Department of Agriculture may solicit and accept
gifts, grants, and donations from any public or private source for
the purposes of this section.
(c) The Department of Agriculture may adopt rules as
necessary to administer a grant program established under this
section.
SECTION 3. Chapter 33, Human Resources Code, is amended by
adding Section 33.028 to read as follows:
Sec. 33.028. GRANT PROGRAMS FOR NUTRITION EDUCATION.
(a) The Department of Agriculture shall develop a program under
which the department awards grants to:
(1) participants in the Child and Adult Care Food
Program, Head Start program, or other early childhood education
programs to operate nutrition education programs for children who
are at least three years of age but younger than five years of age;
and
(2) community and faith-based initiatives that
provide recreational, social, volunteer, leadership, mentoring, or
developmental programs to incorporate nutrition education into
programs provided for children younger than 19 years of age.
(b) The Department of Agriculture may solicit and accept
gifts, grants, and donations from any public or private source for
the purposes of this section.
(c) The Department of Agriculture may adopt rules as
necessary to administer the grant programs established under this
section.
SECTION 4. This Act does not make an appropriation. This
Act takes effect only if a specific appropriation for the
implementation of the Act is provided in a general appropriations
act of the 81st Legislature.
SECTION 5. Except as otherwise provided by Section 4 of this
Act, 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, except as otherwise provided by Section 4
of this Act.