| 1 | 1 | | S.B. No. 282 |
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| 4 | 4 | | AN ACT |
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| 5 | 5 | | relating to grant and outreach programs to provide nutrition |
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| 6 | 6 | | education to children. |
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| 7 | 7 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 8 | 8 | | SECTION 1. Chapter 12, Agriculture Code, is amended by |
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| 9 | 9 | | adding Section 12.0027 to read as follows: |
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| 10 | 10 | | Sec. 12.0027. NUTRITION OUTREACH PROGRAM. (a) The |
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| 11 | 11 | | department may develop an outreach program to promote better health |
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| 12 | 12 | | and nutrition programs and prevent obesity among children in this |
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| 13 | 13 | | state. |
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| 14 | 14 | | (b) The department may solicit and accept gifts, grants, and |
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| 15 | 15 | | donations from any public or private source for the purposes of this |
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| 16 | 16 | | section. |
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| 17 | 17 | | (c) The department may adopt rules as necessary to |
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| 18 | 18 | | administer an outreach program established under this section. |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is |
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| 20 | 20 | | amended by adding Section 38.026 to read as follows: |
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| 21 | 21 | | Sec. 38.026. GRANT PROGRAM FOR BEST PRACTICES IN NUTRITION |
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| 22 | 22 | | EDUCATION. (a) The Department of Agriculture shall develop a |
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| 23 | 23 | | program under which the department awards grants to public school |
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| 24 | 24 | | campuses for best practices in nutrition education. |
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| 25 | 25 | | (b) The Department of Agriculture may solicit and accept |
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| 26 | 26 | | gifts, grants, and donations from any public or private source for |
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| 27 | 27 | | the purposes of this section. |
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| 28 | 28 | | (c) The Department of Agriculture may adopt rules as |
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| 29 | 29 | | necessary to administer a grant program established under this |
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| 30 | 30 | | section. |
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| 31 | 31 | | SECTION 3. Chapter 33, Human Resources Code, is amended by |
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| 32 | 32 | | adding Section 33.028 to read as follows: |
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| 33 | 33 | | Sec. 33.028. GRANT PROGRAMS FOR NUTRITION EDUCATION. |
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| 34 | 34 | | (a) The Department of Agriculture shall develop a program under |
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| 35 | 35 | | which the department awards grants to: |
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| 36 | 36 | | (1) participants in the Child and Adult Care Food |
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| 37 | 37 | | Program, Head Start program, or other early childhood education |
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| 38 | 38 | | programs to operate nutrition education programs for children who |
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| 39 | 39 | | are at least three years of age but younger than five years of age; |
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| 40 | 40 | | and |
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| 41 | 41 | | (2) community and faith-based initiatives that |
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| 42 | 42 | | provide recreational, social, volunteer, leadership, mentoring, or |
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| 43 | 43 | | developmental programs to incorporate nutrition education into |
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| 44 | 44 | | programs provided for children younger than 19 years of age. |
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| 45 | 45 | | (b) The Department of Agriculture may solicit and accept |
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| 46 | 46 | | gifts, grants, and donations from any public or private source for |
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| 47 | 47 | | the purposes of this section. |
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| 48 | 48 | | (c) The Department of Agriculture may adopt rules as |
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| 49 | 49 | | necessary to administer the grant programs established under this |
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| 50 | 50 | | section. |
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| 51 | 51 | | SECTION 4. (a) This Act does not make an appropriation. A |
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| 52 | 52 | | provision in this Act that creates a new governmental program, |
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| 53 | 53 | | creates a new entitlement, or imposes a new duty on a governmental |
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| 54 | 54 | | entity is not mandatory during a fiscal period for which the |
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| 55 | 55 | | legislature has not made a specific appropriation to implement the |
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| 56 | 56 | | provision. |
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| 57 | 57 | | (b) It is the intent of the legislature that not more than $4 |
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| 58 | 58 | | million may be appropriated for the implementation of this Act for |
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| 59 | 59 | | the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2009. |
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| 60 | 60 | | SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 61 | 61 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 62 | 62 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 63 | 63 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 64 | 64 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |
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| 65 | 65 | | ______________________________ ______________________________ |
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| 66 | 66 | | President of the Senate Speaker of the House |
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| 67 | 67 | | I hereby certify that S.B. No. 282 passed the Senate on |
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| 68 | 68 | | April 21, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 1; and that |
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| 69 | 69 | | the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 29, 2009, by the |
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| 70 | 70 | | following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. |
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| 71 | 71 | | ______________________________ |
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| 72 | 72 | | Secretary of the Senate |
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| 73 | 73 | | I hereby certify that S.B. No. 282 passed the House, with |
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| 74 | 74 | | amendment, on May 25, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 143, |
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| 75 | 75 | | Nays 0, one present not voting. |
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| 76 | 76 | | ______________________________ |
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| 77 | 77 | | Chief Clerk of the House |
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| 78 | 78 | | Approved: |
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| 79 | 79 | | ______________________________ |
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| 80 | 80 | | Date |
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| 81 | 81 | | ______________________________ |
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| 82 | 82 | | Governor |
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