86R13747 TSR-D
By: Martinez H.B. No. 3210
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the establishment of the Thirty Percent Texas
Initiative to encourage the use of food produced in this state for
school lunches.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 12, Agriculture Code, is amended by
adding Section 12.0024 to read as follows:
Sec. 12.0024. THIRTY PERCENT TEXAS INITIATIVE. (a) In this
section:
(1) "Initiative" means the Thirty Percent Texas
Initiative under this section.
(2) "School food authority" has the meaning assigned
by 7 C.F.R. Section 210.2.
(3) "School lunch program" means the program described
by Section 12.0025(4).
(b) A school food authority qualifies for the initiative in
a state fiscal year if in the previous state fiscal year at least 30
percent of the school food authority's total food costs for lunches
served as part of the school lunch program were attributable to food
items:
(1) grown or harvested on land or from water in this
state by means of agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture, or
dairying; or
(2) processed inside or outside this state if the
processed food items consist of at least 51 percent of items
described by Subdivision (1).
(c) The value of United States Department of Agriculture
commodity foods provided at no cost to a school food authority may
not be considered for purposes of Subsection (b).
(d) Using money appropriated for this purpose, the
department shall distribute to a school food authority that
qualifies for the initiative in a state fiscal year an amount equal
to 25 cents per lunch served as part of the school lunch program
during the state fiscal year, less the amount of any other state
funds paid in connection with the lunch.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.